Company DescriptionMTI is a Technology Management Company.Job DescriptionSecurity Operations Center Manager- Nashville, TNALL INTERESTED CANDIDATES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY REGARDLESS OF FULL PROFICIENCY IN ALL REQUIRED SKILLSETSJob Requirement:The ideal SOC Manager will possess a strong multi-disciplinary background. A strong technical aptitude across multiple IT arenas paired with outside-the-box thinking and the skillset to turn conceptual ideas into working solutions is imperative. There will be an extremely strong focus on incident detection and response, systems administration, networking, and security. This individual will need to be self-motivated and possess a consultative nature in order work with various IT team members & managers. This role reports directly to Director of Security Operations, who in turn reports directly to the CISO. Frequent executive level interactions, discussions, and briefings will be expected. As an architect by trade, this will be a heavily technical managerial position. The technical focus of this role is to evaluate multiple existing but independent toolsets and unite them into a single inter-related solutions platform. This will not require customized application development as existing COTS type solutions are in place, however the ability to dynamically integrate custom products would be extremely beneficial. This role will lead in the interaction with both internal and external industry-elite incident response and security analytics & engineering resources. Key project interactions will include SOC development, threat intelligence sharing initiatives, and alpha/beta testing of emerging security solutions.The successful candidate will be capable of simultaneously meeting four high-level objectives:Demonstrate proficiency in incident response, kill chain oriented analytics, and identification of IoC’s.Evaluate, tune, integrate, and optimize existing toolsets to meet monitoring and intelligence sharing requirementsWork directly with senior Security and IT leadership to ensure that the final SOC solutions platform is designed to meet diverse operational goals and initiativesIdentify solution gaps and translate those gaps into succinct (vendor-agnostic) technical requirementsIT management experience and a general understanding of the totality of IT architectures and how they interrelate will be required. From a workflow perspective this candidate will need to understand a tiered work delegation model and be able to design and leverage existing solutions to promote that model. The successful candidate will be able to both evaluate technical solutions from the big picture perspective and actually drill down and configure the solutions independently.Skills Preferences:Minimum of 10 years IT experience, with at least 2 years in a SOC or Security Analytics roleHands-on advanced level experience with both closed and open source SOC technologies to include:Log management, analytics, and correlation platformsSIEM solutionsForensics toolsetsPen-Test Frameworks & ToolsetsVulnerability Management Solutions (Nessus, Qualys, Nexpose, etc.)Endpoint Security ToolsetsUTM productsDemonstrated experience in an incident detection and response oriented security monitoring environmentExpert level hands-on knowledge of installing, configuring, and maintaining network and security monitoring solutions.Hands on experience in *nix environments and open source toolsetsAdministrative experience in VMWare-based environmentsIntermediate level of Windows PowerShell and Perl scriptingKnowledge of typical III-Tiered IT support modelsKnowledge of how role-based access works within NOC/SOC solutions, and experience implementing itTechnical certifications from GIAC, SANS, Microsoft, Cisco, are highly desirableCandidates will be required to actively pursue and acquire certificationQualificationsComputer Science degreeAdditional InformationAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.