Position: SOC Lead
Duration: Contract to hire
Location: Richmond, VA - 1-3 days onsite per week (flexible to be more remote depending on the week)
Conversion Salary: $110,000 - $125,000
Desired Skill Set:
- 4-8 years of experience in Security Operations
- Basic understanding of network security (Windows/Linux and Firewalls)
- Working knowledge of: operating systems, network technologies (firewall, proxy, DNS, Netflow), Active Directory, Network communications and routing protocols (e.g., TCP, UDP, ICMP, BGP, MPLS, etc.), Common internet applications and standards (e.g., SMTP, DNS, DHCP, SQL, HTTP, HTTPS, etc.).
Day to day:
A client of Insight Global's is looking for a SOC Lead to assist in managing their team of 12-15 security analysts. This individual will be representing SOC findings in customer calls, highlighting the values added by SOC, finding customer gaps, and working towards fixing the issue. This person will be distinguishing incidents opposed to non-incidents and leading the team with right direction. They will be steering the team of Analysts and Sr. Analysts on the Incident Handling processes and guiding the team on client processes so the team meets SLA requirements. They will coordinate with account management to set healthy expectations for clients and improve deliverables. They will be enduring that threats in the customer's environment are detected and notified in a timely manner as well as ensuring that the incident analysis runbooks, incident response runbooks and standard operating procedures are built, maintained, and are kept in line with best practices and customer expectations.
