• Lead and mentor cybersecurity professionals across threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence, detection engineering, and incident response. • Develop and execute strategic initiatives to advance SOC maturity and enhance operational effectiveness. • Oversee intelligence-driven threat‑hunting activities to identify and mitigate emerging security risks. • Partner with detection engineers to refine detection capabilities, optimize SIEM rules, and develop behavioral analytics for advanced threat detection. • Lead incident response activities, ensuring rapid containment, mitigation, and remediation of cybersecurity incidents. • Conduct post-incident reviews to continually improve processes and strengthen prevention and response mechanisms. • Oversee real-time security monitoring to ensure rapid identification and triage of threats and vulnerabilities. • Collaborate with IT, Risk, Compliance, and senior leadership to communicate risks, trends, and strategic recommendations. • Continuously assess SOC workflows, automation maturity, and tooling; maintain playbooks, SOPs, and supporting documentation. • Ensure compliance with relevant frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK) and prepare reporting on key security metrics and incident trends. • Provide coaching, mentorship, and training to develop SOC team capabilities and support professional growth.