SOC Manager

🕒 August 11

⛰️ Colorado, North Carolina, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $205k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👔 Manager

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Second Front Systems

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

🎖️ Defense

🏛️ Government

SaaS • Defense • Government

Second Front Systems is a public-benefit, venture-backed company that provides mission-critical software solutions primarily to democracies around the world. Their product suite, which includes the 2F Suite, 2F Workshop, 2F Game Warden, and 2F Frontier, simplifies and accelerates the software development and delivery process. The company is trusted by leading software providers and government agencies for its secure DevSecOps solutions, enabling secure software deployment on classified and unclassified networks. Their offerings include tools for secure development, software accreditation, government cloud hosting, and edge deployment, particularly focused on supporting government and defense sectors. Second Front Systems collaborates with partners to make emerging technologies more accessible, accelerating the accreditation and compliance processes and offering solutions that can operate in remote or disconnected environments, such as drones and vehicles.

📋 Description

• Architect the SOC strategy and roadmap, defining threat intelligence operations, detection frameworks, and defensive maturity metrics. • Build and tune detection logic across cloud stacks, identity layers, and endpoints, rejecting noise to accelerate incident response velocity. • Own incident command, leading containment and recovery operations while driving engineering change through rigorous post-mortems. • Govern the defensive stack—SIEM, EDR, and automated playbooks—ensuring engineering delivers lean, high-fidelity operations at scale. • Establish proactive threat hunting programs, synthesizing external intelligence to intercept emerging threats before they reach mission-critical systems. • Synchronize security controls with engineering and product squads, embedding rigorous automated defenses into platform architecture. • Mentor and scale a high-performing security operations squad, anchoring a culture built on accountability and technical craft. • Optimize vendor and MDR relationships, ensuring third-party partnerships deliver the technical execution the mission demands. • Translate technical risk and blast radius into clear recommendations for engineering, product, and IT leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in cyber operations, incident response, and threat intelligence • Minimum 3 years leading high-agency security operations teams • Deep technical mastery of SIEM architecture, EDR stack deployment, and high-fidelity incident response frameworks • Fluency in AWS, Kubernetes security, containerized workload defense, and logging pipeline engineering • Track record engineering detection logic and automated playbooks that scale defensive operations and reduce alert noise • Ability to mentor technical talent and lead complex security initiatives through ambiguity in high-growth startup environments • Clear communication translating technical blast radius and complex risk into recommendations for leadership • Expertise navigating FedRAMP, DoD SRG, and CMMC compliance in regulated government and defense environments • Hands-on scripting and automation engineering using Python, Terraform, and SOAR playbooks • Must reside in one of the approved hiring hubs: DC/Maryland/Virginia; Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC; Denver/Colorado Springs, CO; or Dallas/Fort Worth, TX • U.S. citizenship is requested in the application form

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential eligibility for equity awards • Discretionary bonuses • Competitive salary • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents • 401(k) with a 3% company contribution • Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more • Equity incentive plan • New hire technology and home office stipend • Annual professional development stipend • Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays • Generous parental leave • Flexible remote work opportunities • Employee referral bonus program