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Role Description

The Director of Security Operations Center (SOC) is responsible for leading and maturing a client-facing, compliance-aligned SOC within a cybersecurity consulting and audit-focused organization. This role ensures security monitoring, incident response, and detection engineering capabilities are defensible, audit-ready, and aligned with regulatory frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HITRUST, and FedRAMP.

Unlike traditional enterprise SOC leadership roles, this position requires deep integration between security operations and compliance services. The SOC Director must ensure operational excellence while supporting audit defensibility, client assurance requirements, and third-party risk expectations.

This leader will oversee 24/7 monitoring operations (internal and/or managed services), enhance service offerings, support pre-sales engagements, and maintain credibility with client CISOs, auditors, and executive stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership in a Compliance-Driven Environment
  • Develop and execute the SOC strategy aligned with the firm’s assurance and advisory services.
  • Ensure SOC services are audit-ready, defensible, and aligned with regulatory and attestation standards.
  • Partner with compliance, audit, and advisory teams to ensure operational controls support client reporting needs.
  • Define KPIs, SLAs, and quality metrics that align with both operational performance and audit expectations.
  • Support executive leadership with risk reporting and service maturity updates.
• Client-Facing SOC Operations Oversight
  • Lead and oversee 24/7 monitoring, detection, incident response, and escalation processes.
  • Ensure consistent triage quality, documentation standards, and defensible incident records.
  • Oversee SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and threat intelligence platforms across multiple client environments.
  • Establish standardized investigation methodologies and documentation protocols suitable for audit review.
  • Conduct incident post-mortems and ensure corrective actions are tracked and implemented.
• Team Leadership & Talent Development
  • Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of SOC analysts, engineers, and incident responders.
  • Establish quality assurance processes for investigations and reporting.
  • Build structured training programs to ensure alignment with evolving threat landscapes and compliance requirements.
  • Promote a culture of professionalism, documentation rigor, and client accountability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cybersecurity experience, with at least 5 years in SOC leadership.
• Experience operating in a consulting, managed services, or audit-adjacent environment.
• Strong understanding of regulatory and assurance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HITRUST).
• Experience managing multi-tenant or client-facing SOC environments.
• Demonstrated ability to interface with auditors, CISOs, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong written documentation skills suitable for audit and regulatory review.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off and paid holidays
• Performance Bonuses
• 100% Remote