Security Operations Team Lead (AI)

Location: Security US Remote; company location listed as New York, NY

Compensation: $150,000–225,000 total compensation

Company

Cyera develops data security and AI trust infrastructure that helps enterprises adopt AI securely.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop the Security Operations team, set priorities, run the operating cadence, and build career paths.
• Command major incidents end to end, make containment decisions, communicate with stakeholders, and own after-action reviews.
• Own the metrics, roadmap, and continuous improvement of the agentic SOC.
• Manage the security-agent fleet, including guardrails, human approval points, accuracy evaluation, audit trails, and autonomous-handling impact reporting.
• Run the Customer Zero program, including posture goals, remediation governance, product feedback, and internal deployment reporting.
• Set detection and response priorities, design on-call coverage, handle complex investigations, build detections and playbooks, write code, and represent Security Operations to security leadership and R&D.

Requirements

• 5 or more years in security operations, incident response, or detection engineering, including senior- or lead-level work.
• Experience running significant incidents end to end, including executive communication.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers or analysts.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agent-based security workflows, including understanding agent reliability and failure points and measuring both.
• Strong knowledge of AWS security architecture, IAM, logging, and cloud incident response.
• AWS Security Specialty or Solutions Architect Associate certification, or equivalent demonstrated depth.
• Strong Python skills and detection engineering experience across SIEM and cloud telemetry, with the ability to review and improve others’ work.
• Experience defining metrics, running an operational cadence, and reporting to leadership.
• Clear communication with executives and engineers, with calm and decisive behavior under pressure.

Nice to have

• Experience with DSPM, DLP, or operating a security product as an internal customer.
• Experience in regulated environments, including FedRAMP, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.
• GCIH, GCFA, CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, or similar certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.
• Paid holidays and sick time.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
• Standard benefits and equity package with potential merit increases.