Technical Manager - SIEM

1 Month ago • 5 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The SIEM Technical Manager is a senior technical leader responsible for client engagements, acting as a trusted advisor and overseeing delivery excellence. This role requires deep technical expertise, engagement management, customer relationship leadership, and team development. The Technical Manager owns technical outcomes, leads complex projects, and enhances client maturity and team capabilities. They are the go-to technical expert, providing oversight on concurrent projects, contributing to pre-sales and solution design, and guiding clients in translating security requirements into operational outcomes. Responsibilities include acting as a senior technical leader on SIEM and security operations consulting engagements, translating client goals into technical strategies, leading complex problem-solving, providing oversight on multiple engagements, delivering technical and business oversight, participating in industry groups for thought leadership, leading client workshops, driving consulting methodology improvements, and mentoring junior consultants.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of consulting experience in SIEM
  • Deep experience with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps, or XSIAM
  • Proven ability to lead complex technical projects
  • Strong background in SIEM architecture, deployment, tuning, and operations
  • Prior experience in consulting engagement oversight
  • Ability to articulate technical concepts and business value
  • Proven experience in information security
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
  • Desire and capability to mentor others
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and prioritizing effectively
Good to have:
  • Demonstrated thought leadership through content creation, public speaking, or community contributions
Perks:
  • Company committed to Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
  • Work/life balance
  • Professional training resources
  • Creative problem-solving opportunities
  • Volunteer Opportunities
  • Ability and technology to productively work remotely

Job Details

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. The Technical Manager owns the technical outcomes for customers, leads large and complex projects, and elevates both client maturity and the consulting team’s capabilities.

This individual is the go-to technical expert in their domain, providing oversight on multiple concurrent projects, contributing to pre-sales and solution design, and guiding 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. (No Direct Reports)

  • Maintain a pulse on the SIEM and SOC technology ecosystem, continuously tracking market trends, emerging threats, and evolving best practices.

What We’re Looking For:

  • 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.

  • #LI-GN1

What you can expect from Optiv

  • 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)

EEO Statement

Optiv is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age 40 and over, marital status, genetic information, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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