SOC Manager
ENCODE, Greece

ENCODE is seeking for a SOC Manager that will lead the ENCODE SOC team based at Athens, Greece. The Security Operations Centre (SOC) Manager will plan, direct and control the SOC functions and operations. Ensure the monitoring and analysis of incidents to protect People, Technology and Process addressing all security incidents and ensuring timely escalation. Direct the Cyber Intelligence capability to identify potential threats delivering strategic reports and strategies to minimise the impact of the threat.

Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience with security incident handling and response tasks as well as hands on experience with a SIEM solution.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for SOC strategy.
• Leading and managing the Security Operations and team of security operational staff members
• Primarily responsible for directing security event monitoring, management and response and cyber intelligence
• Ensuring incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation and monitoring
• Ensuring compliance to policy, process, and procedure adherence and process improvisation to achieve operational objectives
• Revising and develop processes to strengthen the current Security Operations Framework, Review policies and highlight the challenges in managing SLAs
• Responsible for overall use of resources and initiation of corrective action where required for Security Operations Center
• Ensuring daily management, administration amp; maintenance of security devices to achieve operational effectiveness
• Ensuring threat management, threat modeling, identify threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring
• Creation of reports, dashboards, metrics for SOC operations and presentation to Sr. Mgmt.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Information Security with at least 5 years of experience in incident analysis and response activities. Experience in a SOC environment is preferred.
• Proficient in Incident Management and Response
• Experience in security device management and SIEM (QRadar , MS Sentinel)
• In-depth knowledge of security concepts such as cyber-attacks and techniques, threat vectors, risk management, incident management etc.
• Experience in threat management
• Knowledge of various operating system flavors including but not limited to Windows, Linux, Unix
• Knowledge of applications, databases, middleware to address security threats against the same.
• Proficient in preparation of reports, dashboards and documentation
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Experience in performing vendor management
• Ability to handle high pressure situations with key stakeholders
• Good Analytical skills, Problem solving and Interpersonal skills
• Working knowledge and experience with MS Office with proficiency in Excel
• IT Security Certification such as GCIH|GCIA|CEH|CHFI|CISSP|GCFA|GREM will be considered as an advantage

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Car allowance
• Private health insurance
• Training and certifications from industry leading vendors
• Rapidly growing company with opportunities for career growth
• Become a member of the Encode team and family, which has some of the most highly motivated and knowledgeable people in the field

Job Rewards and Benefits