Senior Manager (Cyber Defense)

• Directs Security Operations Center (SOC) activities including monitoring, triage, and escalation. To ensure continuous protection of fintech and corporate infrastructure.
• Oversees end-to-end incident response phases (detection to recovery) to minimize the impact of cyber threats on payment systems.
• Coordinates incident response workflows across internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure a unified and rapid organizational defense.
• Architects incident response playbooks and operational procedures to standardize security actions and improve response consistency.
• Develops advanced detection rule sets and security anomaly patterns to enhance the organization's proactive defense capabilities.
• Establishes a comprehensive cyber threat intelligence capability to integrate indicators of compromise (IOCs) into active detection systems.
• Executes proactive threat hunting across endpoints and cloud environments to identify and neutralize hidden security risks.
• Governs enterprise-wide vulnerability management and remediation tracking to ensure critical payment platforms remain secure and patched.
• Analyzes operational security metrics to provide senior leadership with actionable reporting on the organization's defensive posture.
• Leads and mentors SOC analysts and threat responders to foster a high performing team culture focused on operational excellence.

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

• Strong operational leadership and team management.
• Ability to lead teams during high-pressure cyber incidents.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
• Strong decision‑making and crisis management capabilities.
• Collaboration with engineering, fraud, and product teams.
• Ability to mentor and develop cyber defense professionals

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Deep understanding of SOC operations and security monitoring processes.
• Experience operating SIEM, EDR, NDR, SOAR, and threat intelligence platforms.
• Strong knowledge of incident response methodologies and digital forensics.
• Experience with threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience with vulnerability management tools and patch prioritization.
• Understanding of cloud security monitoring across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of malware analysis and threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Familiarity with security logging, detection engineering, and threat hunting techniques.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• +10 years cyber security or security operations.
• Minimum 5 years managing SOC or security operations teams.
• Experience managing incident response programs and cyber crisis events.
• Experience implementing threat intelligence and threat hunting capabilities.
• Experience operating vulnerability management programs at enterprise scale.
• Experience working in fintech, banking, payments, or other regulated environments is highly desirable.

MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

• +5 years

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
• Relevant certifications may include:
  • CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional
  • GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
  • GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) o Certified SOC Analyst (CSA)