Cybersecurity Team Lead – Incident Response Engineering
GM Financial
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Arlington • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Lead and develop a high‑performing engineering team delivering SOC and Incident Response team support that includes security engineering, automation use case deployment, tooling sustainment, and custom capability development.
- Own strategic and tactical planning for the team by setting clear goals, objectives, and priorities that align with the SOC and Incident Response team and broader organizational risk posture.
- Drive close alignment and collaboration with the SOC and Incident Response team, ensuring open communication, shared situational awareness, and seamless handoffs that enable agility, precision, and accuracy in operations.
- Establish and maintain documentation to ensure standardized workflows and processes for reliable, auditable, and repeatable team operations.
- Champion modern delivery practices—DevOps, Agile, and CI/CD—embedding automation and continuous improvement into engineering and operations.
- Communicate clearly across levels, translating technical findings into actionable insights for the team and leadership.
- Model strong people leadership qualities including mentoring and on‑the‑job training, performance coaching, cybersecurity/technical literacy, business communications skills, and a growth mindset that welcomes feedback and continuous learning.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work experience strongly preferred
- 5-7 years of experience in large and complex business environments with a successful track record working directly with senior level management with at least 3 years of experience in one or more of the following domains: Cybersecurity, Information Security, Network Engineering or Operations, Information Technology, Application Development, Access Control, Security Governance, Risk Management, Software Development Security, Cryptography, Security Architecture and Design, Operational Security, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Legal Regulations, Investigations and Compliance, Physical (Environmental) Security, IT or Security Audit, IT or Security Compliance preferred
- 2-3 years of experience securing cloud deployments on common platforms like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform preferred
- Experience with deploying environments by defining infrastructure as code (IaC) preferred
- Experience with declarative IaC approaches and immutable infrastructure preferred
- Experience with securing container deployments, Kubernetes, managed Kubernetes PaaS services, Agile environments and DevOps environments preferred
- Experience with managing infrastructure through CI/CD pipelines preferred
- Experience in documentation tools such as Visio and Microsoft Office products preferred.
Benefits
- Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.
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Hard skills
cybersecurityinformation securitynetwork engineeringapplication developmentaccess controlrisk managementsoftware development securityinfrastructure as codecontainer securityCI/CD
Soft skills
people leadershipmentoringperformance coachingbusiness communicationgrowth mindsetcollaborationagilitytranslating technical findingscontinuous improvementsituational awareness