Cyber - SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) Engineer - Senior Manager
About the role
At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. In a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, organizations face increasingly sophisticated threats while managing growing security operations workloads. Clients across industries look to us for innovative solutions that improve efficiency, enhance visibility, and strengthen cyber resilience through automation and orchestration. As a SOAR Engineering Senior Manager, you will lead complex security automation transformation programs and help shape the growth of our Security Operations and SOAR capabilities. You will serve as a trusted advisor to CISOs and senior security leaders, helping clients define automation strategies, target operating models, technology roadmaps, and investment priorities. You will provide strategic and technical leadership across enterprise SOAR programs, from strategy and architecture through implementation and operationalization. Working across Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and broader technology teams, you will help clients transform how security operations are delivered at scale.
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- Lead a portfolio of complex SOAR and security automation engagements, providing strategic and technical oversight from discovery and architecture through implementation, deployment, and operationalization.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to CISOs and senior security leaders, translating security operations challenges into automation strategies, target operating models, capability roadmaps, and investment priorities.
- Define and drive enterprise security automation strategies, including use-case portfolios, prioritization frameworks, platform strategy, governance, operating models, and adoption roadmaps.
- Provide architecture and engineering oversight for enterprise SOAR solutions, ensuring designs are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and aligned with client requirements and technology strategies.
- Oversee automation across incident triage, enrichment, investigation, containment, remediation, threat intelligence, detection engineering, case management, and reporting, including integrations with SIEM, EDR/XDR, and other security platforms.
- Lead executive briefings, architecture reviews, technical workshops, and strategic planning sessions, translating complex technical and operational issues into clear recommendations and executive decision points.
- Own engagement performance across scope, financials, staffing, milestones, risks, dependencies, delivery quality, and client satisfaction, while ensuring successful outcomes across concurrent workstreams.
- Build and maintain senior client relationships, identify emerging client needs, and shape opportunities to expand engagements across security automation and broader Security Operations capabilities.
- Lead and contribute to business development activities, including solution shaping, proposals, statements of work, estimates, client presentations, and pursuit activities.
- Develop and evolve SOAR service offerings, methodologies, reusable frameworks, accelerators, reference architectures, and engineering standards that enable consistent delivery and support practice growth.
- Lead, coach, and develop Managers, Senior Consultants, engineers, and multidisciplinary teams, providing technical direction, performance feedback, mentorship, and career development.
- Drive innovation across Security Operations by evaluating and operationalizing AI-assisted security, generative AI, advanced orchestration, cloud-native automation, and emerging technologies, with appropriate governance and controls.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related field and significant relevant experience in security automation, SOAR engineering, security operations, cybersecurity engineering, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale security automation or SOAR transformation programs and providing oversight across multiple workstreams or engagements.
- Experience with enterprise SOAR and security automation technologies such as Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, Microsoft Sentinel Automation, Splunk SOAR, Google Security Operations, Tines, D3 Security, Swimlane, or comparable platforms.
- Strong understanding of software development and scripting concepts using Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, or other automation-focused languages, with the technical depth necessary to guide engineering teams and review solution approaches.
- Experience designing and consuming REST APIs, web services, SDKs, custom integrations, and reusable automation frameworks.
- Deep knowledge of SOC processes including alert triage, incident response, threat detection, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, case management, and security operations governance.
- Experience integrating security capabilities across SIEM, EDR/XDR, IAM, email, network, cloud, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, ticketing, and collaboration platforms.
- Understanding of enterprise infrastructure, networking, operating systems, and major cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
- Experience leading client-facing consulting engagements, managing delivery and financial risks, and communicating complex recommendations to senior and executive stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience contributing to business development, proposals, solution shaping, client presentations, and expansion of existing client relationships.
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We seek experienced cybersecurity leaders who combine technical credibility, strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and people leadership. Successful Senior Managers can move comfortably between executive conversations about security transformation and investment priorities and detailed discussions with engineering teams about architecture, integrations, automation, and operational challenges. You will be expected not only to deliver successful client outcomes, but also to grow trusted client relationships, develop our people, shape new solutions, and contribute to the continued growth of the Security Operations and automation practice.
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