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Role Description
The SIEM Technical Manager is a senior technical leader responsible for driving the success of client engagements, acting as a trusted advisor, and overseeing delivery excellence. This role balances deep technical expertise with engagement management, customer relationship leadership, and team development.
- Own the technical outcomes for customers
- Lead large and complex projects
- Elevate both client maturity and the consulting team’s capabilities
- Provide oversight on multiple concurrent projects
- Contribute to pre-sales and solution design
- Guide clients in translating security requirements into operational outcomes
How You’ll Make an Impact:
- Act as the senior technical leader on SIEM and security operations consulting engagements, ensuring technical excellence and delivery quality
- Translate client business goals and security requirements into actionable technical strategies, architectures, and roadmaps
- Lead complex problem-solving, troubleshooting, and architecture design for SIEM programs and related security technologies
- Provide oversight on 2-10 concurrent engagements, ensuring both technical and business outcomes are met
- Deliver technical and business oversight to projects, including proactive management of project risks, quality, and client satisfaction
- Provide thought leadership through participation in industry groups, delivering talks, writing technical and industry-specific blogs, vulnerability research, industry PR interviews, and/or contributing to security publications
- Lead client workshops, assessments, and executive briefings, often in front of both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Drive continuous improvement of consulting methodologies, tools, processes, and deliverables to improve efficiency and quality
- Mentor, coach, and formally develop junior consultants and senior consultants, directly influencing their career growth
- Maintain a pulse on the SIEM and SOC technology ecosystem, continuously tracking market trends, emerging threats, and evolving best practices
Qualifications
- 5+ years of consulting experience in SIEM
- Deep experience with one of the following SIEMs (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps, XSIAM)
- Proven ability to lead complex technical projects with both hands-on and oversight responsibilities
- Strong background in SIEM architecture, deployment, tuning, and operations, including use cases and detection engineering
- Prior experience in consulting engagement oversight, including managing project health, quality, and client outcomes
- Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts and business value to executive, technical, and operational stakeholders
- Proven experience in a pre-sales, post-sales, or non-sales technical capacity in an information security environment
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, including experience leading workshops and executive briefings
- Demonstrated thought leadership through content creation, public speaking, or community contributions preferred
- Desire and capability to mentor others, raise team capability, and lead by example
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, balancing multiple projects, and prioritizing effectively
Benefits
- A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups
- Work/life balance
- Professional training resources
- Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
- Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities
- The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)
