<div class="content-intro"><p>The GitLab&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">DevSecOps platform</a>&nbsp;empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">world’s largest all-remote companies</a>&nbsp;with 2,000+ team members and&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">values</a>&nbsp;that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://vimeo.com/778157354" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://vimeo.com/778157354" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">Life at GitLab</a>.</p></div><div class="c-message_actions__container c-message__actions">&nbsp;</div>
<div><strong>An overview of this role</strong>
<p>As a Senior Manager, you will lead engineering teams to deliver cross-organizational collaborative results, leveraging your expertise in automation, log engineering, threat intelligence, trust and safety, red-teaming, purple teaming, detection development and incident response to amplify high quality security program outcomes and enhance security protocols company-wide. You are an expert in incident response and are comfortable using critical thinking skills to resolve time-sensitive, complex incidents. You make good business decisions under pressure. You work across multiple organizations to unblock teams and resolve escalations where the problem and solutions, as well as risk strategy, may not be well defined. You'll champion a security-conscious culture, leading with metrics for data-driven decision making, developing security engineers to become high performers, tackling pressing security challenges with innovative solutions, ensuring the organization stays ahead of potential threats. You are comfortable being on-call, working nights and weekends when necessary, and volunteer when the team needs help.&nbsp;</p>
<p><br>Find out more about the Security Operations team and responsibilities here:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/security/security-operations/sirt/">Incident Response</a></li>
<li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/security/security-operations/trustandsafety/">Trust and Safety</a></li>
<li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/security/security-operations/security-logging/">SIEM Operations</a></li>
<li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/security/threat-management/red-team/#red-team-metrics">Red Team</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What you’ll do</strong> &nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>Serve as trusted advisor as part of the security division’s leadership team, actively shaping the program direction</li>
<li>Build and mature Security Operations programs for new and existing service offerings</li>
<li>Collaborate across teams as a trusted advisor in automation, log engineering, detection development and incident response, driving the success of larger projects</li>
<li>Provide leadership to multiple security operations team shifts that will sometimes require you to work on nights or weekends.</li>
<li>Actively develop high performing team members to consistently deliver advanced program results, solving systemic problems and delivering on complex projects</li>
<li>Lead efforts in developing security metrics to think critically, drive decisions and resolve intricate issues</li>
<li>Evangelize and foster a culture of security awareness across the company, and within the industry through thought leadership</li>
<li>Drive the team to deliver quality and on time and on budget quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), as well as critical security projects</li>
<li>Proactively address high-impact and difficult security challenges, contributing to innovative solutions</li>
<li>Identify trends and prevent recurring security issues through the contribution of proactive mitigations and adopted product changes</li>
<li>Implement solutions that address complex and challenging security issues with cross-functional dependencies</li>
<li>Productively handle ambiguity and make response related decisions, sometimes with incomplete information, driving consistently positive outcomes</li>
<li>Responsible for overflow Director responsibilities</li>
<li>See your teams as the product, fulfilling the expectations of <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/job-families/security/security-leadership/#security-leadership-roles-at-gitlab">security leadership</a> at GitLab</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What you’ll bring&nbsp;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>An exceptional ability to understand communicate complex technical issues and communicate effectively across multiple levels of the organization</li>
<li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li>
<li>Expert-level leadership in incident detection engineering, response and automation, with a computer science background&nbsp;</li>
<li>A metrics-driven analytical mindset to champion cross-functional challenges and projects, with experience using tools such as Tableau</li>
<li>Experience leading the efficient management of SIEM tools, such as Splunk or Devo</li>
<li>Current working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud forensics</li>
<li>Proficiency in proactive hunting based on threat intelligence</li>
<li>Innovative problem-solving skills on complex security issues within incident detection, response and mitigation</li>
<li>Eagerness to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, actively fostering a culture of security awareness, and supporting the development of security solutions that impact larger projects</li>
<li>Diplomacy and the ability to influence various audiences with compelling perspectives</li>
<li>Comfortable working with ambiguity and making difficult decisions, with consistently positive outcomes</li>
<li>Strong technical leadership skills and analytical skills</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>About the team</strong></p>
<p>Security Operations is a globally distributed team of engineers split across three core regions; AMER, APAC and EMEA, and is at the forefront of security events that impact both GitLab.com and GitLab. We are both proactive and reactive, leading security investigations, conducting purple teaming exercises, incident response support and response resolution, through to cyber threat analysis and logging, detection, and response engineering. Even though we’re a global team, we work together in a cross-regional manner and have automation and processes to facilitate collaboration when resolving incidents, handovers, and general collaboration for project work as well.</p>
<h4><strong>How GitLab will support you</strong></h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/">Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being</a></li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/">All remote</a>, <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/asynchronous/">asynchronous</a> work environment</li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/paid-time-off/">Flexible Paid Time Off</a></li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/erg-guide/#:~:text=Definition%20of%20the%20TMRG%20%2D%20Team%20Member%20Resource%20Groups,-TMRGs%20are%20voluntary&amp;text=The%20purpose%20for%20this%20type,developing%20the%20sense%20of%20belonging.">Team Member Resource Groups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/">Equity Compensation &amp; Employee Stock Purchase Plan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#growth-and-development-benefit">Growth and development budget&nbsp;</a></li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#parental-leave">Parental leave</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/finance/procurement/office-equipment-supplies/">Home office</a> support</li>
</ul>
<p>Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/#examples-of-select-underrepresented-groups">underrepresented groups</a> are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.</p>
</div><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><em><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our </span><a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-link="https://bit.ly/GLBeneUS" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-family:''Arial'';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">benefits</a><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;"> and </span><a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-link="https://bit.ly/GLequity" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-family:''Arial'';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">equity</a><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.</span></em></p></div><div class="title">California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington pay range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$168,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$360,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><hr>
<p><strong>Country Hiring Guidelines: </strong>GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Privacy Policy: </strong>Please review our <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/candidate/faq/recruitment-privacy-policy/" target="_blank">Recruitment Privacy Policy.</a> Your privacy is important to us.</p>
<p>GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also&nbsp;<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-usa/#equal-employment-opportunity-policy" target="_blank">GitLab’s EEO Policy</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/labor-and-employment-notices/#eeoc-us-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-notices" target="_blank">EEO is the Law</a>. If you have a disability or special need that requires&nbsp;<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-usa/#reasonable-accommodation" target="_blank">accommodation</a>, please let us know during the&nbsp;<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#adjustments-to-our-interview-process" target="_blank">recruiting process</a>.</p></div>

The GitLab [DevSecOps platform](https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-
platform/) empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more
efficiently. We are one of the [world’s largest all-remote
companies](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/) with
2,000+ team members and [values](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/)
that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can
contribute. Learn more about [Life at GitLab](https://vimeo.com/778157354).



**An overview of this role**

As a Senior Manager, you will lead engineering teams to deliver cross-
organizational collaborative results, leveraging your expertise in automation,
log engineering, threat intelligence, trust and safety, red-teaming, purple
teaming, detection development and incident response to amplify high quality
security program outcomes and enhance security protocols company-wide. You are
an expert in incident response and are comfortable using critical thinking
skills to resolve time-sensitive, complex incidents. You make good business
decisions under pressure. You work across multiple organizations to unblock
teams and resolve escalations where the problem and solutions, as well as risk
strategy, may not be well defined. You'll champion a security-conscious
culture, leading with metrics for data-driven decision making, developing
security engineers to become high performers, tackling pressing security
challenges with innovative solutions, ensuring the organization stays ahead of
potential threats. You are comfortable being on-call, working nights and
weekends when necessary, and volunteer when the team needs help.

  
Find out more about the Security Operations team and responsibilities here:

  * [Incident Response](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/security/security-operations/sirt/)
  * [Trust and Safety](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/security/security-operations/trustandsafety/)
  * [SIEM Operations](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/security/security-operations/security-logging/)
  * [Red Team](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/security/threat-management/red-team/#red-team-metrics)

**What you’ll do**  

  * Serve as trusted advisor as part of the security division’s leadership team, actively shaping the program direction
  * Build and mature Security Operations programs for new and existing service offerings
  * Collaborate across teams as a trusted advisor in automation, log engineering, detection development and incident response, driving the success of larger projects
  * Provide leadership to multiple security operations team shifts that will sometimes require you to work on nights or weekends.
  * Actively develop high performing team members to consistently deliver advanced program results, solving systemic problems and delivering on complex projects
  * Lead efforts in developing security metrics to think critically, drive decisions and resolve intricate issues
  * Evangelize and foster a culture of security awareness across the company, and within the industry through thought leadership
  * Drive the team to deliver quality and on time and on budget quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), as well as critical security projects
  * Proactively address high-impact and difficult security challenges, contributing to innovative solutions
  * Identify trends and prevent recurring security issues through the contribution of proactive mitigations and adopted product changes
  * Implement solutions that address complex and challenging security issues with cross-functional dependencies
  * Productively handle ambiguity and make response related decisions, sometimes with incomplete information, driving consistently positive outcomes
  * Responsible for overflow Director responsibilities
  * See your teams as the product, fulfilling the expectations of [security leadership](https://handbook.gitlab.com/job-families/security/security-leadership/#security-leadership-roles-at-gitlab) at GitLab

**What you’ll bring  **

  * An exceptional ability to understand communicate complex technical issues and communicate effectively across multiple levels of the organization
  * Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  * Expert-level leadership in incident detection engineering, response and automation, with a computer science background 
  * A metrics-driven analytical mindset to champion cross-functional challenges and projects, with experience using tools such as Tableau
  * Experience leading the efficient management of SIEM tools, such as Splunk or Devo
  * Current working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud forensics
  * Proficiency in proactive hunting based on threat intelligence
  * Innovative problem-solving skills on complex security issues within incident detection, response and mitigation
  * Eagerness to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, actively fostering a culture of security awareness, and supporting the development of security solutions that impact larger projects
  * Diplomacy and the ability to influence various audiences with compelling perspectives
  * Comfortable working with ambiguity and making difficult decisions, with consistently positive outcomes
  * Strong technical leadership skills and analytical skills

**About the team**

Security Operations is a globally distributed team of engineers split across
three core regions; AMER, APAC and EMEA, and is at the forefront of security
events that impact both GitLab.com and GitLab. We are both proactive and
reactive, leading security investigations, conducting purple teaming
exercises, incident response support and response resolution, through to cyber
threat analysis and logging, detection, and response engineering. Even though
we’re a global team, we work together in a cross-regional manner and have
automation and processes to facilitate collaboration when resolving incidents,
handovers, and general collaboration for project work as well.

#### **How GitLab will support you**

  * [Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/)
  * [All remote](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/), [asynchronous](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/asynchronous/) work environment
  * [Flexible Paid Time Off](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/paid-time-off/)
  * [Team Member Resource Groups](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/erg-guide/#:~:text=Definition%20of%20the%20TMRG%20%2D%20Team%20Member%20Resource%20Groups,-TMRGs%20are%20voluntary&text=The%20purpose%20for%20this%20type,developing%20the%20sense%20of%20belonging.)
  * [Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/)
  * [Growth and development budget ](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#growth-and-development-benefit)
  * [Parental leave](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#parental-leave) 
  * [Home office](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/finance/procurement/office-equipment-supplies/) support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of
experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement.
Additionally, studies have shown that people from [underrepresented
groups](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/#examples-of-
select-underrepresented-groups) are less likely to apply to a job unless they
meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please
apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

_The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents
of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through
interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities
of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market
data. See more information on
our[benefits](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-
rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/) and
[equity](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/). Sales roles are
also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base
salary._

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington pay range

$168,000--$360,000 USD

* * *

**Country Hiring Guidelines:** GitLab hires new team members in countries
around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry
specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team
can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting
process.  

**Privacy Policy:** Please review our [Recruitment Privacy
Policy.](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/candidate/faq/recruitment-
privacy-policy/) Your privacy is important to us.

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative
action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment,
employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are
based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex
(including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or
gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental
or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical
history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which
includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime
or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any
other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or
harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also [GitLab’s EEO
Policy](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-usa/#equal-
employment-opportunity-policy) and [EEO is the
Law](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/labor-and-employment-notices/#eeoc-us-
equal-employment-opportunity-commission-notices). If you have a disability or
special need that requires
[accommodation](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-
usa/#reasonable-accommodation), please let us know during the [recruiting
process](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#adjustments-
to-our-interview-process).

