Staff Cyber Defense Engineer (SOC Lead) – Automation & AI

About this role

We are seeking a visionary Lead Cyber Defense Monitoring Engineer to direct our transition toward an AI-driven, agentic Security Operations Center (SOC). Unlike a traditional analyst or leadership role, this position requires a hands-on engineering mindset. In addition to overseeing daily SOC operations, you will actively look for opportunities to improve processes, architect and govern complex automation scripts, and lead the team in the development of automated playbooks. This role is the cornerstone for bridging core cyber defense operations with modern automation, machine learning, and engineering practices.

As the Lead, you will define the automation roadmap, mentor senior engineers, serve as the Incident Commander during critical breaches, and pioneer the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and data science into our overarching defense strategy.

### **Key Responsibilities**

**Automation, AI & Agentic SOC Strategy**

• **Translate the organization's strategic roadmap into actionable team goals. Ensure the team successfully deploys and scales AI-driven autonomous agents capable of performing triage, context gathering, and initial containment.**
• **Oversee the team's automation deliverables and SOAR integrations. Enforce coding standards, manage the peer-review pipeline for Python/REST API scripts, and ensure strict team adherence to Detection as Code (DaC) CI/CD pipelines.**

• **Direct the daily work of the engineering and analyst teams. Foster an engineering-first culture by ensuring staff receive the training and guidance needed to upskill in prompt engineering, script writing, and modern data practices.**
• **Supervise the team's application of data analytics and machine learning models to enterprise security datasets, ensuring their work results in high-fidelity alerting and a reduction in false positives.**
• **Hold the team accountable for key performance indicators (KPIs) related to automation efficacy. Ensure the team consist...