Cyber Operations Manager - Network/Secure Edge Engineering

How you'll make an impact

People:

• Lead a high-performing team of network and secure edge engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and collaboration.

• Relay management and client expectations to team members

• Coach and mentor technical staff, ensuring skill development and alignment to evolving network security trends and business priorities.

• Serve as a strategic liaison between Optiv AFC Operations and client stakeholders.

• Manage client delivery teams, overseeing performance, SLAs, and partnership effectiveness in delivering secure managed services.

• Consult with clients to proactively incorporate their requirements into the service design

• Consult with clients to ensure they understand the how the service operates

• Consult with clients to relay service success stories, service risk, and service outages

• Partner with sales and practice managers to ensure they clearly understand the service definition and support them as needed in their sales and client management activities

• Partner with other managers both within the service and in other managed services to build and maintain synergy across functions

• Matrix resources to other managed security services as needed to ensure success of the overall organization

• Work through staff to deliver a high quality and predicable service while applying the appropriate leadership style (directing, coaching, supporting, delegating) for the situation

• Instill a sense of ownership and accountability in team members’ responsibilities

• Relay success stories, service risk, and service outages to upper management

• Track, measure and report resource allocation to contribute to effective resource management

• Tailor communication frequency, context, and format for the intended target audience

Process:

• Establish, document, and enforce operational standards for secure network design, change management, and incident response across hybrid environments.

• Drive process automation for policy deployment, configuration management, and health monitoring across edge infrastructure.

• Design, implement, and oversee the execution of quality controls that ensure rigid adherence to processes and procedures

• Track, measure, and report process and procedure metrics

• Provide guidance for the integration of secure edge telemetry into incident response workflows and SIEM/SOAR pipelines to enhance detection and investigation.

• Develop and track operational KPIs, including availability, threat coverage, and performance of network security tools.

• Design, implement, and oversee the execution of quality controls that ensure rigid adherence to processes and procedures

Technology:

• Own the strategy and implementation of secure edge solutions including SD-WAN, SASE, ZTNA, CASB, SWG, and DNS security.

• Modernize and secure hybrid network infrastructure, enabling resilient, scalable, and encrypted connectivity across cloud and on-prem environments.

• Implement Zero Trust networking principles, including identity-aware access, microsegmentation, and least privilege enforcement.

• Ensure seamless integration of firewalls, VPNs, and secure gateways with identity, cloud, and endpoint security platforms.

• Ensure technology maintains adequate pace with vendor releases

• Minimize technology debt by consolidating technology investments into only the essential solutions and leveraging shared technology across managed services where feasible

• Build and maintain managerial level knowledge of technologies required for service delivery

What we're hiring for

• 3–5 years of experience leading technical teams in a Managed Security Services (MSSP) or service provider environment, with a focus on multi-tenant operations, client service delivery, and team performance.

• 7–10+ years of experience in network and security engineering, with hands-on expertise in enterprise firewall platforms (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco), SD-WAN, VPNs, secure access service edge (SASE), and edge security solutions (ZTNA, CASB, SWG, DNS security).

• Minimum of 3 years of experience applying Zero Trust architecture principles across client environments, including identity-aware access controls and segmentation strategies tailored to multi-client infrastructures.

• Experience supporting secure connectivity and cloud networking for diverse client environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP; familiarity with cloud-native network security tools and hybrid integration patterns.

• Strong track record of developing repeatable, scalable processes for onboarding clients, implementing security controls, and delivering consistent service levels across accounts.

• Excellent client-facing communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to translate technical outcomes into business value and coordinate cross-functional teams (SOC, engineering, client success).

• Familiarity with integrating edge and network telemetry into SIEM/SOAR platforms (e.g., Splunk, Exabeam, Swimlane) to enrich threat detection, support alert triage, and enable managed response workflows.

• Knowledge of frameworks and compliance mandates relevant to MSSP clients (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CJIS), and experience aligning network/edge controls to client-specific requirements.

• Preferred certifications include CISSP, CCNP Security, PCNSE, or cloud/network certifications such as AWS Advanced Networking or Azure Network Engineer Associate.

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent hands-on experience in a client-facing security operations role.

• Ability to work independently with little or no supervision

• Valid driver’s license

• Ability to work over forty hours as needed and ability to respond to and manage service incidents during non-business hours

• Ability to travel at least 10%

Desired Qualifications:

• Previous Management experience leading a Network/Secure Edge team and environment

• Experience working in and leading within a Security Operations Center

• Experience with Network/Secure Edge technologies (Palo Alto, Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point, Forcepoint, Zscaler, NetSkope) and other technologies associated vendor technologies

• CISSP, CISM, or other managerial level information security certification

• ITIL, ISO, or other service management certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

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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)

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