Cyber Defense Manager (Cybersecurity)

Location: Europe; remote work is available.

Company

hirify.global operates in the fintech sector.

What you will do

• Own Cyber Defense execution across SOC operations, detection engineering, incident response, and exposure remediation.
• Lead alert triage quality, escalation standards, incident command, response coordination, and MTTD/MTTR improvement.
• Prioritize critical vulnerabilities and exposures using asset criticality, exploitability, and business impact.
• Manage dashboards, runbooks, remediation follow-up, operational metrics, and security performance reporting.
• Coordinate with IT, Platform, IAM, Product, GRC, Legal, and business owners during incidents and remediation.
• Build and develop the Cyber Defense team through hiring, onboarding, mentoring, retention, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Information Security and 3+ years in a security management or team lead role with direct people management experience.
• Hands-on experience managing SOC operations, leading incident command, and improving MTTD/MTTR.
• Ability to design, validate, and maintain detection logic across SIEM, EDR, and cloud platforms, including runbook development and false-positive reduction.
• Knowledge of attack scenarios including ATO, credential theft, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration, with the ability to map detections to MITRE ATT&CK threat models.
• Experience prioritizing vulnerabilities using CVSS and asset criticality to reduce exposure aging.
• Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise SIEM: Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Chronicle, or Elastic, plus SOAR tooling.
• Understanding of cloud-native security controls and monitoring in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Understanding of IAM, PAM, SSO, and identity-related attack vectors relevant to detection and response.
• Ability to define, track, and communicate security KPIs and operational dashboards to technical and executive audiences.
• English at Upper-Intermediate level or higher; fluent Ukrainian or Russian.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, e-commerce, or other high-risk industries with complex threat landscapes.
• Previous hands-on experience as a SOC analyst, incident responder, or detection engineer before moving into management.
• Experience building a SOC or Cyber Defense function from scratch or significantly maturing an existing one.
• Familiarity with threat intelligence platforms and threat-informed defense methodologies.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC GSOM, GCED, GCIH, or equivalent.

Culture & Benefits

• 20 paid vacation days and 10 paid sick leave days per year.
• Public holidays according to the company-approved holiday list.
• Medical, professional education, language learning, and wellness budgets.
• Remote work opportunity.