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SOC Director

TENEX.AI· SOC
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Hybrid (Kansas City, MO SOC), Hybrid (Sarasota, FL HQ), Hybrid (Scottsdale, AZ)Full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

SOC Director who leads the SOC, owns health and performance, stays hands-on, and partners cross-functionally to scale and improve detection and response operations for TENEX’s AI-native MDR platform.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the SOC Managers. Manage, coach, and develop a team of SOC Managers responsible for analyst and engineering shifts.
  • Own SOC health and performance. Define and track the metrics that measure detection quality, response speed, and customer outcomes, and drive continuous improvement against them.
  • Stay technical. Remain hands-on in escalations, complex investigations, and detection engineering decisions rather than managing purely from a distance.
  • Support customer outcomes. Serve as a senior escalation point for customer security operations and ensure the SOC delivers consistent, high-quality protection.
  • Scale the operation. Build the processes, staffing plans, and playbooks needed to expand SOC coverage and capacity as customer volume increases.
  • Partner cross-functionally. Work with Detection Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to close gaps and improve the overall service.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in security operations, with 3+ years leading SOC teams (including managing managers or team leads).
  • Strong hands-on technical foundation in detection, incident response, and modern SOC tooling (SIEM/SOAR, EDR, cloud).
  • Proven track record owning SOC performance metrics and driving measurable improvement.
  • Track record of building and retaining high-performing security operations teams.

Skills

Required:Security operations leadershipDetection engineeringIncident responseSOC tooling (SIEM/SOAR, EDR, cloud)
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About TENEX.AI

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With a focus on precision and scalability, TENEX delivers comprehensive cyber security solutions that evolve with your organization.

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