Vice President - SOC Manager

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Vice President - SOC Manager

Role & Responsibilities:

We are seeking an experienced and proactive SOC Manager to lead our 24x7 Global SOC team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing security analysts, overseeing daily operations, coordinating incident response efforts, and continuously enhancing threat detection, analysis and response capabilities. The SOC Manager will ensure operational excellence, threat coverage, and alignment with enterprise security policies, compliance mandates, and business objectives. The SOC Manager will be expected to:

• Lead and manage a team of SOC analysts across various shifts, ensuring 24x7 operational coverage.
• Oversee the monitoring, detection, analysis, and response to cyber threats, incidents and vulnerabilities.
• Establish, document, and refine SOC processes, playbooks, and workflows for consistent and effective response.
• Manage Global and Regional stakeholder, Business Units, SOC services Expansion at group level and Manage Compliance to Global and regional regulators DORA, MAS
• Coordinate with internal IT, legal, compliance risk, and external stakeholders during security incidents and investigations.
• Drive use case development, detection tuning, and threat hunting initiatives using SIEM, SOAR, and threat Intelligence platforms.
• Implementation of SOC control objectives and drive continuous improvement to SOC Metrics
• Ensure SOC performance through KPIs, SLAs, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
• Perform regular threat modeling, incident simulations (tabletop exercises), and post-incident reviews.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, services, capabilities to improve SOC effectiveness.
• Ensure compliance with relevant security standards (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, etc.).
• Mentor and develop SOC team members through coaching, training, and career development plans.
• Support internal and external audit by providing necessary evidences and documentation.

Additional Responsibilities

• Create, develop, and manage tools and scripts/process to assist in the monitoring of cyber risk, intelligence sources, and automation of processes.
• Develop metrics and reporting programs for senior leadership.
• Project management of Intelligence Lifecycle, including documentation.
• Occasional off-hours and weekend work required.

All team members will need to perform project management activities (Change the Bank (CTB)), as well as operational activities and support (Run the Bank (RTB)).

Requirement (indicate mandatory and/or preferred): Mandatory

Drive SOC Strategy as per the Global Leadership strategy:

• Strong knowledge of Security log data pipeline solution
• Understanding of Log sources onboarding covering MITRE ATT&K Framework
• Ensure parser development for unsupported logs sources
• Security Data Lake implementation
• Proven experience on UEBA for Insider Threat detection
• Usecase management for SOC Monitoring