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Security Operations Team Lead

Cyera · New York, NY, United States · Remote

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About Cyera

Cyera is an AI-native data security platform that helps enterprises discover, classify, govern, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-prem, and AI environments. Backed by Accel, Lightspeed and Sequoia.

About the role

Join our team as the Security Operations Team Lead. You will lead a team of Security Operations Engineers, serve as incident commander for major incidents, and own the day-to-day health and improvement of our agentic SOC. You will also run our customer zero program, in which we operate the Cyera platform on our own environment and feed what we learn back to Product. This is a player-coach role: you lead the team and stay hands-on. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience: 5 or more years in security operations, incident response, or detection engineering, including senior or lead-level work
  • Incident Command: Experience running significant incidents end to end, including executive communication
  • Leadership: Experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers or analysts
  • AI-Assisted Workflows: Hands-on experience running AI-assisted and agent-based security workflows, with a clear view of where agents are reliable, where they fail, and how to measure both
  • AWS Knowledge: Strong knowledge of AWS security architecture, IAM, logging, and cloud incident response
  • AWS Certification: AWS Security Specialty or Solutions Architect Associate, or equivalent demonstrated depth
More about this role

Come join the company at the center of how the world adopts AI securely. Cyera’s mission is to give enterprises the confidence to embrace AI safely — deciding exactly what it can see and do as it reaches deeper into the business. We started by solving the hardest problem in data security: finding and securing data faster and more precisely than anyone thought possible. That foundation is now the essential AI trust infrastructure for the Fortune 1000. We’re hiring mission-driven talent to put those leaders at the center of our story.

Join our team as the Security Operations Team Lead. You will lead a team of Security Operations Engineers, serve as incident commander for major incidents, and own the day-to-day health and improvement of our agentic SOC.

You will also run our customer zero program, in which we operate the Cyera platform on our own environment and feed what we learn back to Product. This is a player-coach role: you lead the team and stay hands-on.

The ideal candidate has 5 or more years in security operations or incident response, including senior or lead-level experience, has run significant incidents end to end, and has led or mentored engineers.

  • Team Leadership:...

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