Security Operations Lead

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Work You’ll Do

As a PROJECT – Security Operations Lead on the Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you will:

• Support the implementation of extended detection and response services to enable automated, real-time threat detection, investigation, and response across multiple security layers.
• Perform security operations activities to help monitor, analyze, and respond to cybersecurity events and incidents.
• Work closely with client stakeholders in a staff augmentation capacity to support day-to-day security operations needs.
• Communicate regularly with the client to provide updates, align on priorities, and address operational needs.
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of detection, investigation, and response processes across the security environment.

The Team

Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Cyber Defense & Resilience offering assists clients in defending against advanced threats by transforming security operations, monitoring technology, data analytics, and threat intelligence. Helps manage and protect dynamic attack surfaces and provides rapid crisis and cyber incident response, ensuring clients can be ready for, respond to, and recover from business disruptions.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required: 

• 5+ years of total cybersecurity or security operations experience.
• 3+ years experience with Palo Alto security technologies.
• Hands-on experience deploying or implementing XDR capabilities for threat detection.
• Experience with Palo Alto Cortex XDR, or comparable XDR platforms if approved by the client.
• Experience as a cloud security engineer or in a comparable cloud security role.
• Experience conducting or supporting cybersecurity risk assessments.
• Experience working directly with clients and senior stakeholders, including CIO or C-suite audiences.
• Strong communication, executive presentation, and relationship-management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline.
• Up to 25% travel
• Ability to successfully complete a background check.
• Ability to work primarily on-site in the Tallahassee area or meet client-specific on-site requirements.

Preferred: 

• Experience with TEAGIS, a Secureworks product.
• Experience with vulnerability management.
• Knowledge of risk assessment methodologies, frameworks, and reporting practices.
• Palo Alto or other XDR-related certifications.
• Experience with comparable XDR platforms, such as CrowdStrike or SentinelOne.
• Experience with cyber threat hunting, endpoint protection, or security operations center environments.
• Experience supporting public-sector or highly regulated clients.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.