Security Operations Center Manager

General information

Requisition # R58652 Locations USA-DC-Washington Posting Date 02/27/2025 Security Clearance Required Top Secret Remote Type Onsite Time Type Full time

Description & Requirements

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ManTech seeks a highly skilled and knowledgeable Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager to lead a 24x7x365 Watch Floor team and safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an organization's information assets. This position is located on customer site in Washington, D.C.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Manage a team that operates 24/7, 365 days a year and ensures the monitoring for, timely detection of, and analysis and resolution of potential security incidents, thereby minimizing the impact of cyber threats on the organization.  

• Lead highly skilled security professionals in actively detecting, monitoring, preventing, and analyzing real-time cybersecurity information, events, and threats. Work with Program Manager for planning, scheduling, resource assignments, and budget. 

• Manage teams to achieve customer requirements, goals, service levels and quality; ensure products meet NIST security standards. 

• Responsible for reducing false positives and other extraneous alerts and enhancing threat detection capabilities. 

• Develop and maintain metrics and SOPs to improve quality of team performance. Responsible for ensuring cyber updates and notices are sent out daily to Government and other stakeholders. 

• Manage staffing and staff skill development to include provide mentoring to staff and facilitate knowledge-sharing within the team.

• Coordinate with other programs' teams - incident response, threat intelligence, forensics and engineering for response and analysis of events, as well as assist to provide weekly status, updates, and reports on issues and risks. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in an IT-related or cybersecurity discipline.

• 8+ years cyber experience with a minimum of 5 years managing a SOC of 30+ FTEs. 

• 3+ years of experience using Splunk.

• Must possess at least one (1) of the following certifications:

  • GIAC Continuous Monitoring Certification (GMON)

  • GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)

  • GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)

  • GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)

  • GIAC Network Forensic Analyst (GNFA)

  • GIAC Cloud Threat Detection (GCTD)

  • GIAC Cloud Forensics Responder (GCFR)  

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using Microsoft Sentinel

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Must possess active Top Secret security clearance

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer
• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.

The projected compensation range for this position is $164,400.00-$259,900.00. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories.  In addition, ManTech invests in it’s employees beyond just compensation.  ManTech’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long Term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.

ManTech International Corporation considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability or veteran status or any other status protected under any federal, state, or local law or regulation.
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