Security Operations Center Manager (CBP)

 

 

Title: Security Operations Center Manager

Clearance: Active CBP Background Investigation (CBP BI) and EOD strongly preferred. We can begin processing for candidates who do not hold one.

Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required

Location: Ashburn, VA

Salary Range: [Pending]

Signing Bonus: $10,000 for candidates with an active CBP BI. Payable after 90 days; standard terms apply.

Travel: As needed

U.S. Customs and Border Protection runs continuous operations across more than 300 land, air, and sea ports of entry, plus Border Patrol stations and the Air and Marine Operations Center. Every system that keeps that mission running, biometric checks against watchlists, apprehension processing, surveillance feeds, is also a target. An intrusion that goes undetected does not just risk data. It risks the same operational capability an outage would take down, except an adversary chose the timing.

 

You run the security operations center that watches for that. You own its people, process, and performance: how alerts get triaged, how work gets prioritized when everything looks urgent at once, and how the center performs as a whole rather than as a collection of individual analysts. You will work closely with the leads who run insider threat monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, and vulnerability assessment, and you are accountable for how well those functions work together, not just how well each one works alone.

 

One thing is worth knowing before you apply. A SOC that catches everything but cannot tell leadership what happened in terms they can act on has not actually done its job. Managing up and out is as much a part of this role as managing the floor.

Objective 1: Run a SOC that catches what matters and does not drown in what does not

Objective 2: Make the SOC's specialist functions work as one operation

Objective 3: Give leadership an accurate picture of the SOC's performance and the program's exposure

⠀Objective 4: Build a SOC that gets better at its job over time

Preferred Experience

We are staffing this program now. If you already hold an active CBP BI and EOD, your start date is short and a $10,000 signing bonus comes with the role, payable after 90 days under standard terms. We would like to talk this week.

If you do not, we can begin processing a CBP BI for you. That takes months rather than weeks, so applying now means joining a pipeline rather than starting immediately. We would rather tell you that up front than have you find out after you apply.