Career Opportunities: Senior Manager of Security Operations (334930)

The Role

The Senior Manager of Security will manage the day-to-day operations of Engineers and Technicians dedicated to managing firewalls, threat mitigation, EDOS, and additional security programs. The Senior Manager will drive operational excellence in evaluating current capabilities and predicting future needs, working with internal stakeholders, vendors, and peers to foster continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for leading technical teams and exemplify Lumen’s 8 cultural beliefs of Teamwork, Trust, Transparency, Clarity, Courage, Customer Obsession, Growth Mindset, and Allyship.

Location

This is a fully remote position open to candidates based anywhere in the U.S. This role may require on-call availability expectations.

The Main Responsibilities

• Support and enhance Lumen's abilities to detect and respond to security incidents, including internal events, targeted attacks, and all other cyber incidents.
• Manage active hunts in the enterprise for insecure, suspicious, or malicious activity, and analyze malware, network indicators, and call back channels to design and implement detection mechanisms.
• Facilitate and lead incident response calls, provide documentation and reports to senior management, and maintain incident documentation.
• Ensure Corporate Security owned infrastructure, event feeds, event processing, and asset intelligence are available and operating effectively.
• Research and understand initial threat vectors, create protection mechanisms to prevent threat recurrences, and recommend security best practices and system configuration standards.
• Support Cyber Defense by managing high-visibility projects and acting as a liaison between Cyber Defense and other business units.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills, both verbal and written, and perform an on-call shift rotation.

What We Look For in a Candidate

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience in incident response, computer forensics security, risk assessments, application security and network security.
• 3+ years of direct or matrixed leadership experience.
• Strong work ethic, demonstrated self-starter, ability to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment with excellent verbal and written and communication skills.
• Excellent understanding of common computing attack vectors.
• Considered expert in one (or more) of the following areas: Networking, Operating System (MS/Unix/Linux), database, or programming skills.
• Candidate must possess, or be willing to pursue, applicable professional/technical certifications, such as Security +, C|EH, OSCP, GCIH, CISSP, GPEN, GWAPT, GISEC, CISM or CISA.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of dedicated incident response and computer forensics work experience
• Professional/technical certifications, such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) or equivalent certifications in these areas.
• Development experience in scripting languages such as Python or Perl.
• Hands on experience using commercial Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM), “Next-generation” firewalls, web-content filtering systems, and/or Intrusion Prevention Systems.
• Experience writing custom snort IDS/IPS signatures.
• Experience with large enterprise data centers and/or networks.

Compensation

The starting salary for this role differs based on the employee's primary work location. Employees typically do not start at the top of the range, though compensation depends on each individual's qualifications.

Location Based Pay Ranges

$111,480 - $148,630 in these states: AR, ID, KY, LA, ME, MS, NE, SC, and SD.
$117,340 - $156,450 in these states: AZ, AL, FL, GA, IN, IA, KS, MO, MT, NM, ND, OH, OK, PA, TN, UT, VT, WV, WI, and WY.
$123,210 - $164,280 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NV, NH, NC, OR, and RI.
$129,080 - $172,100 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DE, DC, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA.

As with the pay range variety that's based on the region of a country, specific offers are determined by various factors such as experience, education, skills, certifications and other business needs.

What to Expect Next

Based on your job application information you may be given the opportunity to complete a video interview immediately after applying. This will include a set of questions for you to record a response to in addition to Game Challenges. Completion of this video interview is a requirement in order to be considered for our open position. Now not a good time? No worries, we will also send you an email with a link to complete the video interview. We strongly recommend that you complete this within 5 days of your application date.