MSS Operations Lead

cyberani solutions

Employer Active

Posted 8 hrs ago

Experience

6 - 11 Years

Job Location

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia

Education

Bachelor of Science(Computers)

Nationality

Any Nationality

Gender

Not Mentioned

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day SOC operations, ensuring service quality and SLA adherence across clients.

Provide L3 technical oversight for complex security events/incidents (triage, investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery) and ensure timely escalation and resolution.

Coordinate major incident management activities with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and Engineering teams, leading incident bridges and stakeholder communications.

Oversee shift operations, analyst scheduling, and workload prioritization; coach and mentor analysts to improve performance and investigation quality.

Define, maintain, and continuously improve SOC operational processes, escalation matrices, and playbooks/runbooks.

Review and approve incident reports, RCAs, and client deliverables; ensure accuracy, completeness, and actionable improvement items.

Lead periodic service review meetings with clients to present SOC performance, KPIs, and improvement actions; represent the SOC during audits and governance meetings.

Develop and track SOC KPIs/SLAs/SLOs, ensuring alignment with MSS objectives and driving continuous service improvement.

Support onboarding and client requirements (use-case validation, access readiness, operational acceptance) to ensure smooth service transition.

Support detection quality initiatives by validating alert logic, recommending tuning, and reducing false positives/MTTD/MTTR in coordination with engineering teams.

Assist in identifying, prioritizing, and coordinating the protection of critical cyber defense infrastructure and key resources.

Continuously assess SOC operations to ensure relevant processes and playbooks are followed and that policy requirements are met.

Ensure adherence to all published Cyberani CS policies, procedures, and playbooks by relevant teams and individuals.

Desired Candidate Profile

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in the field of computer science or any related field with professional certification.

6+ Years proven experience.

Senior SOC experience leading advanced incident triage, investigation, containment, and remediation across multiple clients/environments. Strong hands-on capability with SIEM/SOAR, EDR/NDR, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence to drive root-cause analysis, detection tuning, and continuous improvement.

Excellent problem-solving/analytical skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

L3 incident handling and decision-making under pressure (triage, containment, eradication, recovery)

Team leadership: mentoring analysts, shift handover governance, task delegation, and workload prioritization

Stakeholder management: customer communications, executive updates, and incident bridge leadership

Process governance: playbooks/runbooks, escalation matrices, KPI/SLA/SLO management, and continual service improvement

Detection engineering mindset: alert quality review, use-case tuning, and reducing false positives/MTTR

Strong documentation skills (incident reports, RCAs, and client deliverables)

Company Industry

Department / Functional Area

Keywords

  • MSS Operations Lead

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