Team Lead – Principal Security Detection & Response Analyst Team Lead, German Speaking

Overview

As part of LevelBlue’s Global Security Operations, you will act as a hands-on security analyst and technical leader within the EU SOC. You’ll investigate advanced threats, escalate incidents, and participate in threat hunting while guiding fellow analysts. In the Team Lead role, you’ll coach the EU SOC team, coordinate work, and ensure effective operations across a follow-the-sun model. This role combines expert security work with people leadership in a fast-paced, global security environment.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible work arrangements

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on security analysis and investigation in MDR and MXDR environments
• Serve as escalation point for Tier 1/2 analysts
• Correlate attack chains across endpoints, cloud, identity, email and network
• Lead incident investigations and decisive response actions
• Conduct proactive threat hunting across customer environments
• Research new attacks, TTPs, and OSINT support for investigations
• Engage with customers and stakeholders up to C-suite during investigations
• Support workload and escalations to maintain analyst productivity
• Provide coaching and technical guidance to EU SOC analysts
• Coordinate day-to-day team activity and monitor workload
• Escalate capacity or coverage issues to SOC leadership
• Promote knowledge sharing and consistent processes across the team
• Ensure understanding and adherence to Global SOC policies and procedures
• Monitor service delivery metrics and highlight operational risks
• Support onboarding and development of new analysts
• Provide feedback on team development and processes

Key requirements

• Significant experience in a SOC, MDR, or incident response environment
• Technical capability appropriate to Senior/Tier 2 or Principal/Tier 3
• Strong hands-on security investigation and incident-response skills
• Experience in at least two areas: Endpoint security, Malware analysis, Threat hunting/intelligence, Incident response, Penetration testing, Reverse engineering, Digital forensics
• Strong knowledge of Windows; macOS/Linux knowledge advantageous
• Networking protocols and security tools familiarity
• Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) advantageous
• Previous team lead or people-management experience
• Ability to explain complex issues to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong customer-facing skills and ability to engage with senior stakeholders
• Excellent English skills; additional European languages (French or German) required
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in IT or related (preferred)
• 7+ years in information security or networking
• Security-related certifications (preferred)

• Strong communication skills
• Coaching and mentoring
• Collaborative mindset
• MDR/MXDR security analysis
• Endpoint security
• Threat hunting and threat intelligence

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