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🚨 WE'RE HIRING | Senior SOC Analyst / Lead SOC Analyst 🚨
📍 Location: Westlake, Texas, USA (Onsite)
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time
🏢 Company: Inspira Enterprise
Are you an experienced cybersecurity professional passionate about Security Operations, advanced threat detection, incident response, and threat hunting? Inspira Enterprise is looking for a Senior SOC Analyst / Lead SOC Analyst with strong hands-on experience in SIEM and UEBA technologies to join our team and serve as the primary onshore Security Operations resource for a strategic customer environment. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced SOC professional who can lead complex security investigations, drive detection engineering initiatives, manage critical security incidents, and work directly with customer security leadership, including the CISO organization.
🔹 About the Role
As a Senior SOC Analyst / Lead SOC Analyst, you will play a key role in strengthening security monitoring and incident response capabilities. You will lead advanced investigations, proactively identify threats, optimize detection mechanisms, and serve as the primary SOC point of contact for the customer. Experience with Exabeam SIEM and UEBA is preferred. However, candidates with strong hands-on experience in other enterprise SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, or Chronicle are encouraged to apply.
🔹 Key Responsibilities
- Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts and incidents using SIEM and UEBA platforms.
- Lead advanced security incident investigations, including root cause analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident reviews.
- Serve as the primary SOC point of contact for the customer and represent SOC operations in day-to-day engagements.
- Take ownership as an Incident Responder and Incident Commander during high-priority security incidents, coordinating response activities across multiple teams.
- Develop, tune, and optimize correlation rules, behavioral analytics use cases, dashboards, and detection content.
- Conduct proactive threat hunting using security telemetry, UEBA insights, and threat intelligence.
- Leverage threat intelligence platforms, preferably Anomali, to enrich investigations and improve detection effectiveness.
- Map security detections and investigations to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Collaborate with onshore and offshore SOC teams, along with infrastructure, network, cloud, and application teams.
- Prepare executive-level and technical incident reports, threat trend analysis, and SOC operational metrics.
🔹 Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 4 years of core SOC experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with enterprise SIEM and UEBA/behavioral analytics platforms.
- Experience with any major enterprise SIEM platform is acceptable.
- Strong expertise in:
- Security Monitoring and Incident Response
- Advanced Threat Hunting
- Detection Engineering
- Ability to independently lead security investigations and coordinate incident response activities.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
- Ability to engage with customer stakeholders and communicate technical findings effectively.
🔹 Preferred Technologies
- Exabeam SIEM / UEBA
- Splunk
- Microsoft Sentinel
- IBM QRadar
- Google Chronicle
- Anomali Threat Intelligence
🔹 Why Join Us?
Be part of a strategic cybersecurity engagement where you can take ownership of advanced SOC operations, lead critical incident response activities, strengthen threat detection capabilities, and collaborate with experienced cybersecurity professionals.
📩 Interested or know someone who might be a good fit? Please share your updated resume at Nikita.meena@inspiraenterprise.com or feel free to connect with me directly on LinkedIn. Let's connect! #Hiring #NowHiring #CyberSecurityJobs #SOCAnalyst #SeniorSOCAnalyst #LeadSOCAnalyst #SOCJobs #SIEM #UEBA #Exabeam #Splunk #MicrosoftSentinel #QRadar #Chronicle #ThreatHunting #IncidentResponse #DetectionEngineering #CyberSecurityCareers #TexasJobs #WestlakeTX #InspiraEnterprise
🚨 WE'RE HIRING | Senior SOC Analyst / Lead SOC Analyst 🚨
📍 Location: Westlake, Texas, USA (Onsite)
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time
🏢 Company: Inspira Enterprise
Are you an experienced cybersecurity professional passionate about Security Operations, advanced threat detection, incident response, and threat hunting? Inspira Enterprise is looking for a Senior SOC Analyst / Lead SOC Analyst with strong hands-on experience in SIEM and UEBA technologies to join our team and serve as the primary onshore Security Operations resource for a strategic customer environment. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced SOC professional who can lead complex security investigations, drive detection engineering initiatives, manage critical security incidents, and work directly with customer security leadership, including the CISO organization.
🔹 About the Role
As a Senior SOC Analyst / Lead SOC Analyst, you will play a key role in strengthening security monitoring and incident response capabilities. You will lead advanced investigations, proactively identify threats, optimize detection mechanisms, and serve as the primary SOC point of contact for the customer. Experience with Exabeam SIEM and UEBA is preferred. However, candidates with strong hands-on experience in other enterprise SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, or Chronicle are encouraged to apply.
🔹 Key Responsibilities
- Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts and incidents using SIEM and UEBA platforms.
- Lead advanced security incident investigations, including root cause analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident reviews.
- Serve as the primary SOC point of contact for the customer and represent SOC operations in day-to-day engagements.
- Take ownership as an Incident Responder and Incident Commander during high-priority security incidents, coordinating response activities across multiple teams.
- Develop, tune, and optimize correlation rules, behavioral analytics use cases, dashboards, and detection content.
- Conduct proactive threat hunting using security telemetry, UEBA insights, and threat intelligence.
- Leverage threat intelligence platforms, preferably Anomali, to enrich investigations and improve detection effectiveness.
- Map security detections and investigations to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Collaborate with onshore and offshore SOC teams, along with infrastructure, network, cloud, and application teams.
- Prepare executive-level and technical incident reports, threat trend analysis, and SOC operational metrics.
🔹 Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 4 years of core SOC experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with enterprise SIEM and UEBA/behavioral analytics platforms.
- Experience with any major enterprise SIEM platform is acceptable.
- Strong expertise in:
- Security Monitoring and Incident Response
- Advanced Threat Hunting
- Detection Engineering
- Ability to independently lead security investigations and coordinate incident response activities.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
- Ability to engage with customer stakeholders and communicate technical findings effectively.
🔹 Preferred Technologies
- Exabeam SIEM / UEBA
- Splunk
- Microsoft Sentinel
- IBM QRadar
- Google Chronicle
- Anomali Threat Intelligence
🔹 Why Join Us?
Be part of a strategic cybersecurity engagement where you can take ownership of advanced SOC operations, lead critical incident response activities, strengthen threat detection capabilities, and collaborate with experienced cybersecurity professionals.
📩 Interested or know someone who might be a good fit? Please share your updated resume at Nikita.meena@inspiraenterprise.com or feel free to connect with me directly on LinkedIn. Let's connect! #Hiring #NowHiring #CyberSecurityJobs #SOCAnalyst #SeniorSOCAnalyst #LeadSOCAnalyst #SOCJobs #SIEM #UEBA #Exabeam #Splunk #MicrosoftSentinel #QRadar #Chronicle #ThreatHunting #IncidentResponse #DetectionEngineering #CyberSecurityCareers #TexasJobs #WestlakeTX #InspiraEnterprise
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Electronics & Hardware
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in SOC lead jobs.
- 3 or more years of hands-on experience in a security operations center environment
- Proficiency with at least one enterprise SIEM platform such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or IBM QRadar
- Experience leading or mentoring a team of SOC analysts
- Relevant certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CySA+, GCIA, or GCIH
- Strong knowledge of incident response frameworks and escalation procedures
- Familiarity with SOAR platforms, threat intelligence feeds, and ticketing workflows
Tips for Your SOC Lead Job Search
Tailor your resume to SOC metrics
Hiring managers for soc lead roles want to see measurable impact, not just duties. Quantify your mean time to detect and respond, the size of the team you led, and the volume of alerts your SOC handled daily.
Highlight your SIEM and SOAR experience
Job postings almost always list specific platforms. Name the SIEM and SOAR tools you have hands-on experience with early in your resume summary, so recruiters can confirm the match before reading further.
Pursue a GIAC or CompTIA leadership certification
Certifications like GIAC Security Leadership or CompTIA CySA+ signal that you can operate at both a technical and supervisory level. Many soc lead postings list these explicitly as preferred or required credentials.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists soc lead openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare for a live detection scenario
Many soc lead interviews include a table-top exercise or a live alert triage scenario. Practice walking through your analysis process out loud, covering triage prioritization, escalation decisions, and how you communicate findings to non-technical stakeholders.
Negotiate shift coverage expectations upfront
SOC Lead roles often involve 24/7 coverage responsibility even when you work a standard shift. Clarify on-call obligations, rotation schedules, and how incidents outside business hours are handled before you accept an offer.
SOC Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most soc leads?
The companies hiring the most soc leads right now include Stellantis, AMD, and Arm, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Michigan, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Defense contractors, managed security service providers, and large financial institutions consistently post the highest volume of soc lead openings.
How many soc lead jobs are remote?
About 57% of soc lead openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies significantly by industry. Threat intelligence and monitoring roles tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while positions tied to classified government contracts or on-site SOC infrastructure typically require an in-person presence.
How do you become a soc lead?
Start by building several years of hands-on experience as a SOC analyst, focusing on alert triage, incident response, and documentation. Earn an intermediate security certification, then seek opportunities to mentor junior analysts or lead shift coverage. When applying for lead roles, emphasize any experience owning an incident end-to-end or improving SOC processes.
Can you get hired as a soc lead with limited experience?
Moving into a soc lead role with limited experience is possible if you can demonstrate strong technical depth and early leadership signals. Analysts who have informally trained new team members, authored runbooks, or led post-incident reviews are competitive for junior lead positions. Targeting smaller organizations or managed security providers often gives you a faster path to a formal lead title.
What does the soc lead interview process look like?
Most soc lead interviews begin with a recruiter screen followed by a technical interview covering threat detection, SIEM use, and incident response decisions. A panel interview with the security manager and peer analysts typically follows. Expect at least one scenario-based exercise where you walk through how you would triage and escalate a live alert or manage an active incident.
Where can I find and apply to soc lead jobs?
You can find and apply to soc lead jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience and location preferences, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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