Senior Level Security Operations Engineer Jobs
Senior level security operations engineer jobs place experienced engineers at the center of threat detection programs, incident response decisions, and the teams that defend critical infrastructure. Openings are concentrated across Insurance, Technology & Software, and Banking & Financial Services, with 39% remote or hybrid availability, and employers like CVS Health, Figma, and Ripple hiring at this level now.
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Position Summary
The Lead Director - Security Operations Center (SOC) is responsible for leading the cybersecurity operations function for a rapidly evolving healthcare business, ensuring the organization can effectively detect, investigate, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats. By establishing strong operational processes, actionable threat intelligence, and effective response capabilities, the position helps protect critical business operations, sensitive data, and customer trust.
As the leader of the SOC function, this role is accountable for building and maturing security operations capabilities that balance security, scalability, and business agility. The Lead Director partners closely with infrastructure, cloud, identity, engineering, and business leaders to strengthen cyber resilience and prepare the organization for emerging threats. Through strong leadership, operational discipline, and continuous improvement, this position helps ensure cybersecurity remains an enabler of growth while reducing risk in a highly regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Security Operations Leadership
- Lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of the Security Operations Center, including threat monitoring, detection, investigation, response, and threat hunting activities.
- Establish operational processes, service levels, metrics, and reporting to measure effectiveness and support informed decision-making.
- Build and mature SOC capabilities that align security operations to business priorities, risk tolerance, and growth objectives.
- Ensure operational readiness, escalation procedures, and effective coordination during cybersecurity events and incidents.
Threat Detection & Incident Response
- Serve as the primary escalation point for significant cyber incidents and coordinate response efforts across technical and business stakeholders.
- Drive improvements in detection engineering, investigation processes, and response workflows to reduce risk and improve response times.
- Leverage automation, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities to improve operational efficiency and strengthen cyber defense outcomes.
Cybersecurity Strategy & Resilience
- Develop and maintain security operations standards, processes, and controls aligned with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
- Lead initiatives that strengthen cyber resilience, incident preparedness, ransomware response readiness, and recovery capabilities.
- Provide leadership with visibility into threat activity, operational performance, emerging risks, and strategic recommendations.
- Support regulatory, audit, and risk management activities related to cybersecurity operations.
Cloud, Identity & Platform Security
- Lead security operations across cloud, endpoint, identity, and network environments.
- Drive the effective use and continuous optimization of security technologies supporting monitoring, detection, investigation, and response functions.
- Partner with cloud, infrastructure, identity, and engineering teams to improve security visibility, response capabilities, and overall security posture.
- Ensure appropriate monitoring and threat detection coverage across critical systems, applications, and business services.
Leadership & Talent Development
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of security operations professionals.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Provide mentorship, coaching, and career development opportunities to strengthen team capability and succession depth.
- Align team priorities and resources to evolving business needs, threat landscapes, and organizational objectives.
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through process optimization, automation, and standardization.
- Establish meaningful metrics and reporting that demonstrate operational performance, effectiveness, and risk reduction.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the maturity, scalability, and effectiveness of security operations capabilities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across technology and business functions to ensure security operations remains aligned with organizational priorities.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience within medium-large scale environments.
- 5+ years leading Security Operations Center (SOC), Incident Response, Cyber Defense, or Threat Detection teams.
- 5+ years of Sexperience operating and optimizing enterprise security platforms, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, and security automation technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike Falcon, and Wirespeed.
- 3+ years of demonstrated experience building, managing, and maturing security operations capabilities, including security monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, and security investigations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting cloud-native and hybrid security operations across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Security technologies, including Sentinel, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, and Entra ID, as well as Google Security Command Center.
- Experience implementing security automation, orchestration, AI-enabled security operations, or operational workflow optimization within a SOC environment.
- Strong knowledge of Zero Trust architecture, identity security, vulnerability management, cyber resilience, and ransomware response preparedness.
- Proven ability to lead teams, establish operational metrics, and communicate cybersecurity risks, incident impacts, and program performance to senior leadership.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GIAC certifications, Microsoft Security certifications (SC-100, SC-200), Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, or CrowdStrike Falcon Certification
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/30/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Position Summary
The Lead Director - Security Operations Center (SOC) is responsible for leading the cybersecurity operations function for a rapidly evolving healthcare business, ensuring the organization can effectively detect, investigate, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats. By establishing strong operational processes, actionable threat intelligence, and effective response capabilities, the position helps protect critical business operations, sensitive data, and customer trust.
As the leader of the SOC function, this role is accountable for building and maturing security operations capabilities that balance security, scalability, and business agility. The Lead Director partners closely with infrastructure, cloud, identity, engineering, and business leaders to strengthen cyber resilience and prepare the organization for emerging threats. Through strong leadership, operational discipline, and continuous improvement, this position helps ensure cybersecurity remains an enabler of growth while reducing risk in a highly regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Security Operations Leadership
- Lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of the Security Operations Center, including threat monitoring, detection, investigation, response, and threat hunting activities.
- Establish operational processes, service levels, metrics, and reporting to measure effectiveness and support informed decision-making.
- Build and mature SOC capabilities that align security operations to business priorities, risk tolerance, and growth objectives.
- Ensure operational readiness, escalation procedures, and effective coordination during cybersecurity events and incidents.
Threat Detection & Incident Response
- Serve as the primary escalation point for significant cyber incidents and coordinate response efforts across technical and business stakeholders.
- Drive improvements in detection engineering, investigation processes, and response workflows to reduce risk and improve response times.
- Leverage automation, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities to improve operational efficiency and strengthen cyber defense outcomes.
Cybersecurity Strategy & Resilience
- Develop and maintain security operations standards, processes, and controls aligned with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
- Lead initiatives that strengthen cyber resilience, incident preparedness, ransomware response readiness, and recovery capabilities.
- Provide leadership with visibility into threat activity, operational performance, emerging risks, and strategic recommendations.
- Support regulatory, audit, and risk management activities related to cybersecurity operations.
Cloud, Identity & Platform Security
- Lead security operations across cloud, endpoint, identity, and network environments.
- Drive the effective use and continuous optimization of security technologies supporting monitoring, detection, investigation, and response functions.
- Partner with cloud, infrastructure, identity, and engineering teams to improve security visibility, response capabilities, and overall security posture.
- Ensure appropriate monitoring and threat detection coverage across critical systems, applications, and business services.
Leadership & Talent Development
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of security operations professionals.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Provide mentorship, coaching, and career development opportunities to strengthen team capability and succession depth.
- Align team priorities and resources to evolving business needs, threat landscapes, and organizational objectives.
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through process optimization, automation, and standardization.
- Establish meaningful metrics and reporting that demonstrate operational performance, effectiveness, and risk reduction.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the maturity, scalability, and effectiveness of security operations capabilities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across technology and business functions to ensure security operations remains aligned with organizational priorities.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience within medium-large scale environments.
- 5+ years leading Security Operations Center (SOC), Incident Response, Cyber Defense, or Threat Detection teams.
- 5+ years of Sexperience operating and optimizing enterprise security platforms, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, and security automation technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike Falcon, and Wirespeed.
- 3+ years of demonstrated experience building, managing, and maturing security operations capabilities, including security monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, and security investigations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting cloud-native and hybrid security operations across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Security technologies, including Sentinel, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, and Entra ID, as well as Google Security Command Center.
- Experience implementing security automation, orchestration, AI-enabled security operations, or operational workflow optimization within a SOC environment.
- Strong knowledge of Zero Trust architecture, identity security, vulnerability management, cyber resilience, and ransomware response preparedness.
- Proven ability to lead teams, establish operational metrics, and communicate cybersecurity risks, incident impacts, and program performance to senior leadership.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GIAC certifications, Microsoft Security certifications (SC-100, SC-200), Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, or CrowdStrike Falcon Certification
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/30/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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- CVS Health20
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Senior Level Security Operations Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level security operations engineer job?
Employers at this level look for engineers who have led incident response efforts, built or improved detection pipelines, and mentored junior analysts. Demonstrating ownership of security tooling decisions, familiarity with threat intelligence frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, and a history of reducing mean time to detect or respond will set you apart. Certifications such as CISSP or GIAC credentials strengthen your candidacy meaningfully.
Which companies hire senior level security operations engineers?
Companies hiring senior level security operations engineers right now include CVS Health, Figma, and Ripple, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Hiring at this level comes from large enterprises with mature security programs, government contractors, financial institutions, and cloud-native technology firms that run 24/7 security operations centers.
Are there remote senior level security operations engineer jobs?
Yes, though availability varies by employer and role sensitivity. About 39% of senior level security operations engineer openings are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting strong demand for experienced talent across geographies. Roles tied to classified environments or on-premise infrastructure are more likely to require an on-site presence.
What makes a security operations engineer role senior level?
Senior level roles are defined by scope and ownership rather than task execution. At this stage, engineers are expected to architect detection strategies, lead investigations into complex threats, evaluate and select security tooling, and guide junior team members. They often interface directly with security leadership and contribute to program roadmaps, not just day-to-day alert triage.
Which industries hire the most senior level security operations engineers?
Senior Level security operations engineer roles concentrate in Insurance, Technology & Software, and Banking & Financial Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they manage large volumes of sensitive data, operate under strict regulatory requirements, or maintain infrastructure that demands continuous, expert-led threat monitoring.