# Security Operations Team Lead at Cyera

- Company: Cyera
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.cyera.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $225K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-17
- Apply by: 2026-12-01
- Apply: https://www.comeet.com/jobs/cyera/17.008/security-operations-team-lead/82.470?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cyera-security-operations-team-lead/

## 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

Tags: Security

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