Head of SOC

Experience

8+ years, including several years leading a SOC or comparable security operations unit, ideally in a regulated financial institution

Role Description

The Head of SOC holds disciplinary leadership for both teams of the in-house Security Operations Center (Analysis and Engineering) and acts as the tiebreaker whenever functional and operational leadership disagree.

The role is accountable towards the CISO for SOC performance and for detection and response coverage of the bank's critical environments. It owns SOC budget, staffing and contracting and decides on recruiting, appraisal, compensation and promotion, taking the functional assessment of the Principal Analyst and the Principal Engineer as binding input and deviating from it only with a documented rationale.

It steers the transition from the current external SOC service provider to a fully in-house operated SOC and ensures that external partners are only Responsible or Consulted, never Accountable.

As a member of the SOC Steering Committee chaired by the CISO, it translates the bank's security strategy and regulatory obligations into SOC priorities.

Skills: SOC Management , Regulatory Compliance , Security Strategy