Senior Manager, Security Operations

Semrush

Senior Manager, Security Operations in charge of incident response management and metrics oversight. Leading SOC team and ensuring operational efficiency in security processes across locations.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇪🇺 Anywhere in EuropeSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and continuously improve the Security Incident Response process end-to-end.
Act as Incident Commander for high-severity security incidents.
Serve as Security Lead in cross-functional incidents with a security impact.
Ensure clear coordination, communication, and stakeholder alignment during incidents.
Own post-incident reviews, including root cause analysis, action item definition, and tracking to completion.
Maintain and evolve incident documentation standards, runbooks governance, and response playbooks oversight.
Ensure appropriate escalation handling for high-severity incidents outside business hours on a best-effort basis.
Own the Security Monitoring process, ensuring alert quality, signal-to-noise balance, and operational efficiency.
Oversee Detection Engineering as a managed process, including prioritization, quality control, and alignment with threat landscape.
Ensure effective integration of Threat Intelligence into detection and response workflows.
Own Log Management from an operational perspective, including logging requirements, coverage, ingestion health, and data quality oversight.
Coordinate response to logging-related incidents affecting monitoring capabilities.
Own the SOC operational metrics framework, be accountable for key performance indicators including: Alert response times (MTTA), Mean Time to Contain and incident lifecycle efficiency, Incident SLO adherence, Alert quality and false positive reduction, Monitoring coverage and logging health indicators.
Drive metric-based prioritization and improvements across SOC processes.
Provide structured reporting to leadership on SOC performance and risks.
Lead a lean SOC team composed of Analysts and a Security Data Engineer.
Conduct performance reviews and regular one-to-ones.
Own individual development plans and learning roadmaps for team members.
Manage hiring, onboarding, staffing, and workload planning.
Ensure sustainable coverage model and operational resilience.
Conduct tabletop exercises and ensure team readiness for high-severity events.
Own the SOC operational roadmap and backlog.
Prioritize initiatives based on risk, impact, and available resources.
Manage operational trade-offs in a resource-constrained environment.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Corporate functions.
Participate in vendor relationship oversight within the SOC technology stack.
Support external audits such as SOC 2 and PCI DSS from an operational perspective, including process explanation and evidence coordination.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience in Security Operations and Incident Response management.
Demonstrated experience coordinating high-severity security incidents.
Solid understanding of Security Monitoring, Detection Engineering, and Log Management processes.
Deep familiarity with SIEM platforms and security monitoring ecosystems.
Strong understanding of alert lifecycle management and signal optimization.
Experience working with threat intelligence integrations.
Proven ability to operate in metric-driven operational environments.
Experience interacting with auditors and supporting compliance processes such as SOC 2 or PCI DSS.
Ability to manage processes end-to-end in a lean operational setting.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Unlimited PTO
Hobby & team building budget allowance
Employee Support Program
Loss of family member financial aid
Employee Resource Groups

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Hard Skills & Tools

Security Incident ResponseIncident CommandRoot Cause AnalysisThreat Intelligence IntegrationLog ManagementDetection EngineeringAlert Lifecycle ManagementMetric-driven OperationsPerformance MetricsOperational Resilience

Soft Skills

CoordinationCommunicationStakeholder AlignmentLeadershipTeam ManagementPerformance ReviewsWorkload PlanningCollaborationProblem SolvingPrioritization

Certifications

SOC 2PCI DSS