Senior Manager, SOC

An organisation in Hong Kong seeks a Senior Manager for their Security Operations Centre (SOC) to safeguard critical information assets and ensure operational resilience. You will lead proactive threat hunting, incident response, and SOC process optimisation.

Key responsibilities:

As Senior Manager of the Security Operations Centre, you will oversee all aspects of cyber incident management, ensuring operational resilience through advanced threat detection and response strategies.

• Lead advanced analysis, investigation, and response to complex cybersecurity incidents, including containment, recovery, and root cause remediation
• Drive threat-intelligence-led hunting to identify malicious activity, emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and improve detection capabilities
• Oversee 24/7 SOC operations, including monitoring, alert triage, classification, escalation, and continuous process optimisation
• Develop and enhance SOC procedures, incident playbooks, response plans, and detection logic to address evolving threats and control gaps
• Coordinate major incident response with internal teams, external providers, and stakeholders, ensuring minimal business impact and full documentation
• Advise on security controls, support compliance audits, and strengthen operational resilience through corrective and preventive improvements
• Mentor SOC analysts and incident responders, fostering high-performance team culture and continuous capability development

Candidate profile:

To excel in this role, you must have extensive leadership experience in high-stakes cybersecurity environments with a proven ability to manage complex incidents under pressure.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Networking, or related field
• Certification in good standing, for one or more of the following, would be an added advantage: CISSP, GIAC (GCFA, GCIH, GSOC, GCTI) or CTIA
• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience with strong leadership in incident response, SOC operations, and security investigations
• Proven expertise in threat hunting, threat intelligence, incident response frameworks (NIST, SANS), and advanced attack detection across diverse threat scenarios
• Hands-on experience managing and optimising SOC workflows, playbooks, runbooks, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvement processes
• Strong technical knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, EDR/XDR, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, and security control gap analysis
• Solid troubleshooting capability across network, endpoint, application, and cloud environments, with experience coordinating major incidents and cross-functional remediation
• Familiarity with compliance and audit requirements, plus strong stakeholder communication, mentoring, and executive reporting skills

About the company:

This established organisation focuses on sports and entertainment sector. It is known for its advanced digital infrastructure, operational excellence, and long-standing commitment to responsible governance. The organisation also contributes significantly to community development through structured funding and large-scale social impact initiatives.

Keywords: cybersecurity, SOC, incident response, threat hunting, SIEM, SOAR, forensics, compliance

What's next:

If you’re ready to elevate your cybersecurity career while making a tangible difference in operational resilience—apply now!