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# Sr Manager, Incident Response at UltraViolet Cyber

- **Company:** UltraViolet Cyber
- **Location:** San Jose, CA
- **Compensation:** $175k–$205k
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/uvcyber/ed3cb473-18f8-4304-9b42-5221de2237ca

## Job description

Make a difference here.

UltraViolet Cyber is a leading platform-enabled unified security operations company providing a comprehensive suite of security operations solutions. Founded and operated by security practitioners with decades of experience, the UltraViolet Cyber security-as-code platform combines technology innovation and human expertise to make advanced real-time cybersecurity accessible for all organizations by eliminating risks of separate red and blue teams.

By creating continuously optimized identification, detection, and resilience from today’s dynamic threat landscape, UltraViolet Cyber provides both managed and custom-tailored unified security operations solutions to the Fortune 500, Federal Government, and Commercial clients. UltraViolet Cyber is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with global offices across the U.S. and in India.

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to enhance your cyber security leadership skills and experience? We are looking for a dedicated Senior Manager, Incident Response to work with our service delivery teams that provide extensive MSSP services to a large client of ours!

As an embedded Cyber Security leader with our customer, you will be responsible for an offshore team of Security Analysts that manage and monitor 2,500+ end points. You will be working day-to-day with the Head of Product Security and the Chief Legal Officer as part of the team that mitigates risk and secures the organization against outside threats. The role will be strategic in leading a SOC team, incident response, detection coverage and tuning, and help with performing security reviews and board-level dashboards.

The position is required to be onsite 3 days per week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

What You'll Do:

-Lead the Corporate Security Program

-Manage the SOC team

-Develop, publish, maintain, and enforce comprehensive organization-wide information security risk assessment framework, plans, policies, procedures, guidelines and controls that are aligned with the organization’s business needs

-Evangelize and provide SME knowledge on Information security matters

-Establish metrics and regular reporting mechanisms for assessing and measuring security, privacy, compliance and risk across the organization including metrics for the Public Bug Bounty program

-Manage planning, tracking and reporting including risk and issue tracking , developing schedules and managing interdependencies

-Develop process documentation

-Vendor Management (Including procurement related activities) and the 3rd party vendor risk management program

-Lead the incident response process and participate in vulnerability remediation efforts. Maintain the vulnerability management system and ensure compliance on SLAs for security bugs

-Identify and resolve systemic issues impacting IT and aggressively take action to resolve - including reviews, awareness, education and process controls

-Improve overall security awareness and instill a culture of secure software development throughout the IT organizations.

-Manage the ongoing training program for employees

-Manage various security governance, risk and compliance projects

-Establish credibility as a trusted advisor to partners including customers, executives, peers, and employees

-Maintain strong knowledge of ongoing security threats, remediation and operational standard methodologies

-Support and Manage Action Plans including exceptions to closure; including working with Risk owners to develop sustainable action plans that address technology, process and organizational risk areas.

-Manage relationships and relevant information sharing with members of the Information Security Team, broader IT Team as well as Lines of Business

-Act as an internal consultant within IT and business groups for Information Security Risk Assessments

-Help develop an effective Information Security Strategy by aligning Risk Management & Information Security Governance efforts with Information Security Technology Strategy and Information Security Threats

-Perform security audits and assessments of internal systems and third parties and recommend actions to mitigate risks through a review of efficiency, effectiveness and compliance of operational and security policies, processes and practices.

-Perform technical security assessment of solutions and recommend/review security designs and controls . Oversee and perform operational execution of the third party cyber risk management processes

-Act as primary trusted security advisor on projects to ensure that information security risks are managed and risk assessment process is followed including when interacting with 3rd parties

-Support periodic audit activities as they relate to the IT cyber security domain (e.g., GDPR, PCI, SOX

-Provide hands-on security expertise during design, development, implementation and testing of various IT projects

-Provide clear direction and mobilize others to take action on priorities

-Manage, coach and develop outstanding Information Security talent

What You've Done: -US Citizenship is Required

-10+ years experience in Computer Science field

-Experience leading SOC or Incident Response teams

-Experience collaborating and being a strategic member of a Zero Trust rollout

-Experience owning detection engineering via Crowdstrike

-Experience reviewing cloud configurations and AWS Security solutions

-Experience performing continuous security validations and review of controls

-Knowledge of NIST CSF risk register

-Experience partnering with Threat Intelligence vendors and providing action around IOC hunts, blocks, detections, etc.

-Experience with vulnerability management via Tenable; running scans, remediation cycle with analysts

UltraViolet Cyber maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect our company's differing products, services, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors.

We sincerely thank all applicants in advance for submitting their interest in this position. We know your time is valuable.

UltraViolet Cyber welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

If you want to make an impact, UltraViolet Cyber is the place for you!

## About UltraViolet Cyber

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: UltraViolet Cyber is a tech-enabled managed security services provider that unifies offensive and defensive cybersecurity operations to protect Global 2000 and Federal Government customers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A in 2017; Private Equity round in 2023)
- **Headquarters**: McLean, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (earliest known funding round: 2017)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (leadership includes CEO Ira Goldstein and President/COO Atif Ghauri)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity (Managed Security Services Provider, MSSP)
- **Target customers**: Global 2000 enterprises and U.S. Federal Government agencies (B2B, Enterprise, Government)
- **Mission**: "To enable secure, resilient operations so our customers can serve, innovate, and lead with confidence."

## Products & Services
- **UV Lens**: Flagship security-as-a-service solution that removes operational silos and integrates security capabilities (SaaS/Managed Service).
- **Managed Detection & Response (MDR)**: 24/7 threat monitoring and response (Service).
- **SOC as-a-Service**: Outsourced Security Operations Center (Service).
- **Continuous Penetration Testing**: Ongoing offensive security assessments (Service).
- **Continuous Threat Exposure Management**: Proactive vulnerability identification and prioritization (Service).
- **Dedicated Defense**: Custom, dedicated security teams for clients (Service).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $4.1M (one Series A round in 2017 and one Private Equity round in 2023)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly named (one investor in the 2023 PE round); acquired Black Duck’s Application Security Testing Services Business.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Ranked #2642 on Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies.
  - Ranked #19 on MSSP Alert's Top 250 MSSPs.
  - 509 employees (as of mid-2026) with offices in McLean (HQ), Lehi (UT), Phoenix (AZ), Hyderabad (India), and remote workers in UK and Canada.
  - 52,000+ LinkedIn followers with monthly growth of +1.1%.
  - Active job postings: 34 (monthly increase of +9.7%).

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-to-market unified security operations**: Combines red (offensive) and blue (defensive) teams under one platform – the "UltraViolet" approach.
- **Founding pedigree**: Led by cybersecurity experts trained by the NSA and Federal Government, giving deep intelligence community expertise.
- **Security-as-code platform**: Delivers integrated capabilities through a potent, automated platform rather than siloed tools.
- **Customer base**: Serves Global 2000 and Federal clients, indicating high trust and stringent compliance requirements.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the unified security operations model, expanding tech-enabled managed services, and deepening partnerships with enterprise and government clients.
- **Innovation in delivery**: Custom solutions and innovative delivery models to disrupt the traditional MSSP market.
- **Growth direction**: Continued hiring (34 open roles across engineering, sales, consulting) and geographic expansion (notably in India and UK).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Growing community of professionals passionate about cybersecurity, innovation, accountability, consistency, and a strong will to win." Emphasis on transparency, collaboration, and delivery excellence.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid and remote options available (roles in Lehi, UT; Salt Lake City; Bluemont, VA; Hyderabad, India; and fully remote positions for engineers and consultants).
- **Benefits**: Excellent benefits, compensation, training, 401k, and paid time off. Career advancement opportunities through dynamic project work.
- **Engineering culture**: Hands-on with cutting-edge security tech; teams include red team consultants, cloud security engineers, SOC analysts, and DevOps engineers.
- **Salary examples** (from Indeed): Cloud Security Engineer $100k–$150k, Associate Principal Red Team Consultant $165k–$195k, SOC Analyst ~$101k, Security Engineer ~$142k.

## Sources
1. [uvcyber.com/careers](https://www.uvcyber.com/careers)
2. [uvcyber.com/about](https://www.uvcyber.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/uvcyber](https://linkedin.com/company/uvcyber)
4. [indeed.com/cmp/Ultraviolet-Cyber](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Ultraviolet-Cyber)

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