Security Operations Manager Jobs in New York
Security Operations Manager jobs in New York represent one of the most active markets in the country, concentrated in financial services, healthcare, critical infrastructure, and enterprise technology across a seniority range from team lead through director-level. Most hiring is anchored in New York City, Albany, and Buffalo, where large employers such as JPMorgan Chase, Northwell Health, and IBM maintain established security functions. The most in-demand specialties are security operations center management, incident response leadership, and threat intelligence program oversight. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
Job Description
SUMMARY
Ares is looking for a highly motivated Senior Associate to join its Investment Operations team and play a critical role in supporting the Firm’s growing private debt platform.
This is an opportunity to work at the center of the private credit investment lifecycle — partnering with investment professionals, Portfolio Management, Trading, Legal, Compliance, Fund Accounting, Performance, and Technology to ensure complex private debt investments are accurately captured, operationally ready, and supported by high-quality data from day one.
The role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining credit expertise, analytical problem-solving, legal document interpretation, and technology. You will become a key point of connectivity between executed deal documentation and the systems, data, and workflows that support Ares’ investment platform.
Beyond day-to-day execution, you will have the opportunity to help shape how private debt investments are onboarded, governed, and maintained — improving processes, strengthening controls, and partnering with technology teams to reduce manual work and scale the platform.
PRIMARY FUNCTIONS & ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Review and interpret complex investment documentation, including credit agreements, note purchase agreements, prospectuses, amendments, borrowing base certificates, funding notices, and related legal documents to identify the economic, legal, and operational terms required for investment setup and ongoing maintenance.
- Lead the setup and onboarding of new private debt investments, including loans, structured credit assets, commercial and residential mortgage loans, private placements, and other credit instruments across internal systems and downstream books and records platforms.
- Capture and maintain critical deal and security-level data, including issuer, borrower, guarantor, facility type, spread, base rate, floor, maturity, payment frequency, day count, amortization, original issue discount, fees, call protection, PIK features, and covenant-related attributes.
- Partner with Compliance on legal entity and obligor structures, including the review of structure charts and maintenance of relevant legal entity information.
- Collaborate with investment strategies and business teams to identify and maintain additional business, reporting, and regulatory data requirements, including strategy-specific user-defined fields.
- Leverage platforms such as DealCloud, AlphaStream, and IVP SecMaster to onboard investments, maintain deal and security-level information, and support the integrity of the investment record throughout the full asset lifecycle.
- Coordinate across Investment, Portfolio Management, Trading, Legal, Compliance, Operations, Fund Accounting, Performance, and external counterparties to resolve discrepancies between executed documentation, internal approvals, and system setup requirements.
- Partner closely with Portfolio Managers, Traders, and investment professionals to ensure new transactions are established accurately and on time ahead of funding, settlement, accounting, and portfolio reporting deadlines.
- Perform quality control reviews of newly onboarded assets and subsequent document-driven changes to ensure completeness, consistency, accuracy, and auditability across systems and downstream consumers.
- Develop and maintain operating procedures, data standards, and control checklists covering document review, security setup, reference data, and ongoing private debt maintenance.
- Work with Technology and Data teams to enhance onboarding workflows, reduce manual touchpoints, improve automation, and strengthen integrations between document review processes and investment platforms.
- Support cross-system reconciliation and remediation efforts by identifying data exceptions, researching root causes, and driving timely resolution of inaccurate or incomplete deal and security information.
- Participate in project management, process improvement, and data governance initiatives designed to strengthen the scalability and control environment of the private debt platform.
- Produce management reporting and operational metrics focused on onboarding timeliness, setup quality, data exceptions, control effectiveness, and operational risk.
- Help train and develop junior team members and offshore resources on credit documentation, security setup standards, data quality expectations, and private debt control processes.
- Serve as a subject matter resource for private debt onboarding and security master processes, helping identify opportunities to improve workflows, strengthen controls, and enhance data quality across the broader investment platform.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or another business-related discipline.
- Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant experience in investment operations, middle office, security master, onboarding, or asset data management within a credit-focused investment manager, bank, or alternative asset management platform.
- Direct experience supporting private debt, bank loans, privately originated credit, or note investments.
- Demonstrated ability to read and operationalize legal documentation, including credit agreements, note purchase amendments, amendments, and funding notices.
- Hands-on experience with DealCloud, AlphaStream, or comparable private markets / credit operations platforms.
- Strong PowerPoint Skills for polished presentation and project/status reporting
- Strong understanding of private debt instrument structures, lifecycle events, and data attributes required for accounting, valuation, performance, and compliance workflows.
- Experience coordinating across front office, legal, operations, accounting, and technology stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
- Prior experience at an alternative asset manager is strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of private credit products, including term loans, revolvers, delayed draw facilities, unitranche structures, and privately placed notes.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to extract key terms from lengthy legal documents and translate them into accurate operational data points.
- Sound judgment in identifying ambiguities in documentation and escalating issues appropriately for resolution.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple live transactions, competing deadlines, and ongoing portfolio maintenance tasks.
- Proven communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with investment professionals, legal counsel, fund accounting, compliance, and technology teams.
- Advanced Excel skills; experience with data analysis, reconciliations, and process documentation.
- A hands-on, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to improve workflows and strengthen controls in a growing private debt platform.
- High degree of accountability, professionalism, and comfort operating in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Reporting Relationships
Vice President, Data & PricingCompensation
The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.
$130,000 - $150,000
The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) program with company match; Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA); Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution; Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance; Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit.
Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more.
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
Job Description
SUMMARY
Ares is looking for a highly motivated Senior Associate to join its Investment Operations team and play a critical role in supporting the Firm’s growing private debt platform.
This is an opportunity to work at the center of the private credit investment lifecycle — partnering with investment professionals, Portfolio Management, Trading, Legal, Compliance, Fund Accounting, Performance, and Technology to ensure complex private debt investments are accurately captured, operationally ready, and supported by high-quality data from day one.
The role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining credit expertise, analytical problem-solving, legal document interpretation, and technology. You will become a key point of connectivity between executed deal documentation and the systems, data, and workflows that support Ares’ investment platform.
Beyond day-to-day execution, you will have the opportunity to help shape how private debt investments are onboarded, governed, and maintained — improving processes, strengthening controls, and partnering with technology teams to reduce manual work and scale the platform.
PRIMARY FUNCTIONS & ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Review and interpret complex investment documentation, including credit agreements, note purchase agreements, prospectuses, amendments, borrowing base certificates, funding notices, and related legal documents to identify the economic, legal, and operational terms required for investment setup and ongoing maintenance.
- Lead the setup and onboarding of new private debt investments, including loans, structured credit assets, commercial and residential mortgage loans, private placements, and other credit instruments across internal systems and downstream books and records platforms.
- Capture and maintain critical deal and security-level data, including issuer, borrower, guarantor, facility type, spread, base rate, floor, maturity, payment frequency, day count, amortization, original issue discount, fees, call protection, PIK features, and covenant-related attributes.
- Partner with Compliance on legal entity and obligor structures, including the review of structure charts and maintenance of relevant legal entity information.
- Collaborate with investment strategies and business teams to identify and maintain additional business, reporting, and regulatory data requirements, including strategy-specific user-defined fields.
- Leverage platforms such as DealCloud, AlphaStream, and IVP SecMaster to onboard investments, maintain deal and security-level information, and support the integrity of the investment record throughout the full asset lifecycle.
- Coordinate across Investment, Portfolio Management, Trading, Legal, Compliance, Operations, Fund Accounting, Performance, and external counterparties to resolve discrepancies between executed documentation, internal approvals, and system setup requirements.
- Partner closely with Portfolio Managers, Traders, and investment professionals to ensure new transactions are established accurately and on time ahead of funding, settlement, accounting, and portfolio reporting deadlines.
- Perform quality control reviews of newly onboarded assets and subsequent document-driven changes to ensure completeness, consistency, accuracy, and auditability across systems and downstream consumers.
- Develop and maintain operating procedures, data standards, and control checklists covering document review, security setup, reference data, and ongoing private debt maintenance.
- Work with Technology and Data teams to enhance onboarding workflows, reduce manual touchpoints, improve automation, and strengthen integrations between document review processes and investment platforms.
- Support cross-system reconciliation and remediation efforts by identifying data exceptions, researching root causes, and driving timely resolution of inaccurate or incomplete deal and security information.
- Participate in project management, process improvement, and data governance initiatives designed to strengthen the scalability and control environment of the private debt platform.
- Produce management reporting and operational metrics focused on onboarding timeliness, setup quality, data exceptions, control effectiveness, and operational risk.
- Help train and develop junior team members and offshore resources on credit documentation, security setup standards, data quality expectations, and private debt control processes.
- Serve as a subject matter resource for private debt onboarding and security master processes, helping identify opportunities to improve workflows, strengthen controls, and enhance data quality across the broader investment platform.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or another business-related discipline.
- Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant experience in investment operations, middle office, security master, onboarding, or asset data management within a credit-focused investment manager, bank, or alternative asset management platform.
- Direct experience supporting private debt, bank loans, privately originated credit, or note investments.
- Demonstrated ability to read and operationalize legal documentation, including credit agreements, note purchase amendments, amendments, and funding notices.
- Hands-on experience with DealCloud, AlphaStream, or comparable private markets / credit operations platforms.
- Strong PowerPoint Skills for polished presentation and project/status reporting
- Strong understanding of private debt instrument structures, lifecycle events, and data attributes required for accounting, valuation, performance, and compliance workflows.
- Experience coordinating across front office, legal, operations, accounting, and technology stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
- Prior experience at an alternative asset manager is strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of private credit products, including term loans, revolvers, delayed draw facilities, unitranche structures, and privately placed notes.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to extract key terms from lengthy legal documents and translate them into accurate operational data points.
- Sound judgment in identifying ambiguities in documentation and escalating issues appropriately for resolution.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple live transactions, competing deadlines, and ongoing portfolio maintenance tasks.
- Proven communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with investment professionals, legal counsel, fund accounting, compliance, and technology teams.
- Advanced Excel skills; experience with data analysis, reconciliations, and process documentation.
- A hands-on, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to improve workflows and strengthen controls in a growing private debt platform.
- High degree of accountability, professionalism, and comfort operating in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Reporting Relationships
Vice President, Data & PricingCompensation
The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.
$130,000 - $150,000
The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) program with company match; Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA); Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution; Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance; Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit.
Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more.
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
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- Technology & Software
- Insurance
- Banking & Financial Services
- Retail
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What New York Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in security operations manager jobs across New York.
- Active New York security guard license or supervisor registration through the New York State Division of Licensing Services
- Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, criminal justice, or a related field
- CISSP, CISM, or CompTIA Security+ certification strongly preferred or required by most employers
- Five or more years of progressive experience in security operations or a related discipline
- Demonstrated experience managing a security operations center or leading an incident response team
- Familiarity with SIEM platforms, threat detection tools, and compliance frameworks such as NIST or ISO 27001
Security Operations Manager Jobs in New York: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a security operations manager in New York?
The path in New York typically starts with a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information systems, or criminal justice, combined with hands-on experience in security operations or IT roles. For roles that involve physical security personnel oversight, supervisors must hold a security guard registration or armed guard license issued by the New York State Division of Licensing Services. Cybersecurity-focused positions rely on industry credentials such as CISSP or CISM to demonstrate the technical and managerial competency employers expect.
How much do security operations managers make in New York?
Security operations managers in New York earn a median of about $59,890 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $44,750 for the lowest 10% to over $96,610 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire security operations managers in New York?
Employers hiring security operations managers in New York right now include Allied Universal, CAMBA, and Arch, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. New York's concentration of financial institutions, large hospital systems, and enterprise technology firms makes it one of the most consistently active hiring markets for this role in the country.
Which New York cities have the most security operations manager jobs?
New York, Bronx, and Brooklyn account for the largest share of security operations manager openings in New York. New York City dominates because of its density of financial services headquarters, major healthcare networks, and multinational corporations, while Albany draws demand from state government agencies and regulated industries, and Buffalo has a growing presence of regional healthcare and manufacturing employers with dedicated security functions.
Are there remote security operations manager jobs in New York?
Yes, and more than many management roles, since cybersecurity-focused security operations work is largely desk-based and platform-driven. About 33% of security operations manager openings tied to New York are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting the analytical and supervisory nature of the role. The functions most commonly performed remotely include SOC oversight, threat monitoring coordination, and policy and compliance work, while on-site presence is typically required when physical security personnel management is part of the scope.
How can I get hired as a security operations manager in New York with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a SOC analyst or IT security analyst role first, then building toward a supervisory position. Large New York employers such as Northwell Health and major financial institutions regularly hire junior analysts through structured associate programs or rotational security tracks. Earning a CompTIA Security+ certification and gaining familiarity with SIEM tools strengthens a candidate's profile significantly. Physical security management entry points often come through armed or unarmed guard roles that lead to shift supervisor positions once a New York license is in hand.
Where can I find and apply to security operations manager jobs in New York?
You can find and apply to security operations manager jobs in New York on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across New York City, Albany, Buffalo, and the broader state. Search the available roles, find the ones that fit your experience and specialization, and apply directly through each listing.
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