Lead Cyber Security Operations Center

Responsibilities
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices, including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

About USDS
At TikTok, we're committed to a process of continuous innovation and improvement in our user experience and safety controls. We're proud to be able to serve a global community of more than a billion people who use TikTok to creatively express themselves and be entertained, and we're dedicated to giving them a platform that builds opportunity and fosters connection. We also take our responsibility to safeguard our community seriously, both in how we address potentially harmful content and how we protect against unauthorized access to user data.

U.S. Data Security ("USDS") is a standalone department of TikTok in the U.S. This new security-first division was created to bring heightened focus and governance to our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to keep U.S. users safe. Our focus is on providing oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and user data in the U.S., so millions of Americans can continue turning to TikTok to learn something new, earn a living, express themselves creatively, or be entertained. The teams within USDS that deliver on this commitment daily span Trust & Safety, Security & Privacy, Engineering, User & Product Ops, Corporate Functions and more.

**About the Team**:
Our Global Security function provides services to TikTok's US market using four principles that guide our strategic and tactical operations. First, we champion trust and transparency, leading the charge in organizational transparency and execution of security and privacy capabilities that drive customer trust. Second, we are a business catalyst and enabler, embodying the DNA of technical innovation. Third, we drive risk-informed and empowered decision-making, giving our business leaders the information needed to make key decisions. Finally, we proactively identify and reduce risk while enabling innovative product development - to consistently build sustainable world-class and trusted security capabilities.

**Responsibilities**:
As a Lead CSOC analyst, you will lead a team a TikTok US Cyber Security Operaitons Center (CSOC) team. You will lead a team of strong people, processes, and technologies with the overarching goal of detecting, investigating, and responding to threats targeting TikTok's US operations and infrastructure. You'll be based in our Cyber Fusion Center in Washington D.C.
The CSOC team is responsible for 24x7 monitoring of multiple security-related information sources to manage incidents related to cyber, privacy, and data protection for TikTok data, infrastructure, and products. The CSOC team will regularly survey the TikTok networks for signs of a breach, malware, or unauthorized access. Additionally, the CSOC team is responsible for developing and maintaining incident response plans, playbooks and procedures. Finally, the CSOC team will be responsible for data collection and analysis of Incident Response data.
The CSOC analyzes disparate data sets when combined with threat information and other enrichment to identify incidents and drive appropriate responses to contain and minimize impact and restore normal operations. The analysis is used to ensure a consistent and coordinated response to ongoing threats ensuring TikTok can continue to operate safely and securely.

**Qualifications**:
**Education**: Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or equivalent information security, privacy, risk, compliance, project management or like discipline from an accredited college or university or measurable knowledge / experience from proven industry, military, defense, or government operations.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- At least 5-8 years of experience handling security-related incidents
- Experience with identifying and responding to advanced threats and threat actor TTPs
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), ability to influence without authority.
- Demonstrated leadership and collaboration skills, in particular in leading or contributing to global and multi-functional analyst SOC teams.
- Demonstrated time management, problem-solving, effort prioritization and interpersonal skills
- Work well under pressure and within constraints to solve problems and meet objectives
- Excellent knowledge of industry-sta