Security Operations Centre Lead

Shape the future of a high-performing Security Operations Centre.

Excite Cyber is looking for a SOC Lead to take ownership of our Security Operations Centre and elevate how we deliver detection and response for our customers.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll lead from the front, driving technical excellence, building team capability, and continuously evolving our SOC to stay ahead of modern threats.

About the Role

As SOC Lead, you’ll be responsible for the day-to-day technical operations of the SOC, while also shaping its future direction.

You’ll work closely with leadership, engineering, and customer teams to ensure our services are sharp, scalable, and aligned to real customer outcomes.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and oversee SOC operations across a multi-customer environment
• Drive incident response and ensure SLA-aligned alert triage and resolution
• Coach and develop SOC analysts, uplifting overall team capability
• Own and evolve playbooks, runbooks, and detection strategies
• Build maturity across threat intelligence, threat hunting, and detection engineering
• Act as the technical voice of the SOC across the business
• Support customer engagements and pre-sales where required

What You Bring

• 5+ years in SOC / incident response / detection roles
• Proven experience leading or mentoring analysts
• Strong hands-on experience with SIEM/XDR platforms (including Microsoft Defender, Elastic, Trend Micro)
• Deep understanding of attacker techniques and MITRE ATT&CK
• Ability to translate technical insights into clear business and customer communication

Nice to Have

• MSSP or multi-tenant SOC experience
• Exposure to SOAR, detection-as-code, or structured threat hunting
• Industry certifications (GCIA, GCIH, Microsoft SC-200, OSCP, BLT1)

Why Excite Cyber?

• Real ownership — shape the SOC, don’t just run it
• Work across a diverse and evolving threat landscape
• Join a growing MSSP with strong leadership backing
• Be part of a team that values capability, not just titles

If you’re ready to lead, build, and elevate a SOC — we’d love to hear from you.