Hiring: Information Security Operations Manager Company: First American Location: Santa Ana, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:16:42 Target Skills & Keywords : SIEM, SOC About the job Experience: •5+ years of consecutive hands-on experience working in a SOC environment, utilizing industry leading network security monitoring technologies, application, web, database and Security Event and Information Management (SIEM), IDS/IPS, endpoint, email security gateways and DLP technologies. Required Skills: •Maintains ownership of the Security Operations Center service delivery including the SOC operating model, services, 24/7 coverage, severity criteria, escalation paths, quality assurance, staffing, budget requests, vendors, roadmap, and outcomes. •Oversee the monitoring of information security systems, alerts and indicators of compromise used to protect the enterprise from attacks and identify compromised systems. •Leads incident response actions as Incident Commander, with incident-declaration authority, to protect the company and address cyber threats while ensuring proper adherence to policies and procedures. •Accountable and responsible for determining scope, severity, urgency, and business impact; setting containment and recovery priorities; maintaining decision logs; coordinating business and technical workstreams; and providing executive updates. •Organizes and, where necessary, participates in an on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 monitoring and incident response. •Provides leadership by instructing, mentoring, and training team members as they learn processes, develop their skills, and grow their knowledge. •Works proactively to identify, develop, and implement incident response processes and procedures to mitigate security risks including enhancing the incident response plan and associated incident response playbooks. •Manages relationships with Security Services Providers to monitor, detect, and respond to security incidents and is accountable for service definitions, SLAs, KPIs, analyst quality, escalation, privileged access, data handling, incident-notification obligations, exercise participation, and corrective actions. Qualifications: •Deep analytical skills and capabilities •Proven leadership skills and is results focused •Demonstrated capacity to organize, plan and carry out assignments with minimal supervision/direction. •Excellent written and verbal communication skills up to and including executive leadership •Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and teamwork skills •Generally, requires a BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or equivalent work experience •This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location. •Note that the following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County. ** Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!