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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Onsite
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Job Summary
At Comcast, we are committed to providing secure and reliable services for our customers, employees, and business partners. As theJob Description
This position is ineligible for visa sponsorship. To be considered for this role, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States and not require sponsorship for employment now or in the future.
Core Responsibilities:
Lead and scale Comcast’s SOC, Security Incident Response Team, threat hunting, and threat detection functions, ensuring the organization is trained, equipped, and structured to respond effectively to routine security events and major incidents.
Build the operating model, staffing approach, escalation paths, runbooks, and surge capacity required to manage multiple concurrent major incidents.
Serve as a senior incident commander for high-severity cybersecurity events, coordinating response across technical teams, business stakeholders, legal, privacy, communications, and executive leadership.
Lead Comcast’s threat hunting function to proactively identify adversary behavior, emerging attack patterns, control gaps, and high-risk activity before it becomes a major incident. Including leading Purple Team activities.
Own and mature the enterprise threat detection strategy, including detection coverage, alert fidelity, tuning, detection lifecycle management, and alignment to threat intelligence, adversary tradecraft, and business risk.
Partner with security engineering, data engineering, platform engineering, and product teams to design and improve the tools, pipelines, dashboards, automations, and case management workflows used by cyber operations teams.
Drive continuous improvement across SIEM use cases, endpoint detections, cloud detections, identity detections, network telemetry, enrichment pipelines, automation, and analyst workflows.
Ensure lessons learned from incidents and hunts directly inform new detections, improved runbooks, stronger controls, and better response procedures.
Develop and continuously improve incident response strategy, severity models, communications protocols, after-action reviews, and remediation tracking.
Establish executive reporting on incident trends, SOC performance, detection quality, threat hunting outcomes, operational capacity, readiness gaps, and enterprise risk.
Define and track metrics for mean time to detect, mean time to respond, alert quality, false-positive reduction, detection coverage, incident conversion, hunting outcomes, case volume, backlog, and major-incident readiness.
Manage relationships with external incident response providers, security vendors, technology partners, and strategic service providers to ensure effective support during critical incidents.
Ensure SOC, incident response, threat hunting, and detection practices align with regulatory expectations, internal policies, industry frameworks, and enterprise risk management requirements.
Provide leadership to managers and technical teams, including goal setting, performance management, workforce planning, coaching, and career development.
Represent Comcast as a senior subject matter expert in security operations, incident response, threat hunting, and threat detection.
Required Qualifications:
10+ years of relevant cybersecurity experience, including leadership experience in cybersecurity operations, security incident response, threat hunting, threat detection, or enterprise SOC functions in a large, complex environment with at least 5 years of experience managing leaders of people
Demonstrated experience managing high-severity cybersecurity incidents, including executive communications, cross functional coordination, containment strategy, remediation oversight, and post-incident improvement.
This role supports a 24x7 cybersecurity operation and requires availability outside of standard business hours, including nights, weekends, and holidays, during critical incidents and high-severity security events.
Strong leadership experience building, managing, and scaling technical security teams, including managers, incident responders, SOC analysts, threat hunters, detection engineers, and specialized security professionals.
Deep technical understanding of modern security operations, including SIEM, EDR, threat intelligence, malware analysis, digital forensics, cloud security, identity security, network security, automation, and detection engineering.
Experience partnering with engineering teams to build, improve, and operationalize security tools, data platforms, dashboards, automations, telemetry pipelines, and analyst workflows.
Proven ability to make high-impact decisions under pressure and lead teams through ambiguous, fast-moving security events.
Experience developing incident response operating models, playbooks, escalation procedures, readiness exercises, metrics, and continuous improvement programs.
Strong understanding of adversary tradecraft, threat hunting methodologies, detection lifecycle management, and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to brief senior leaders on risk, impact, operational status, capacity gaps, and recommended actions.
Ability to collaborate effectively across Cybersecurity, IT, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Communications, Engineering, Product, and business leadership.
Relevant industry certifications preferred, such as CISSP, CISM, GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, GNFA, GMON, or other GIAC certifications.
The ideal candidate is a senior cyber operations leader who can operate at both strategic and tactical levels. They should be comfortable leading during crisis conditions, scaling incident response, maturing threat hunting and detection programs, and partnering with engineering teams to build the operational tools required for enterprise-scale cyber defense.
This leader must be able to translate threat activity, operational pain points, analyst needs, and business risk into durable platforms, automations, detections, workflows, and operating models that improve speed, quality, resilience, and readiness across the SOC. Employees at all levels are expected to:
Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
Drive results and growth.
Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead
Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities
Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Skills
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cyber Operations, Executive Presence, People Leadership, Security Incident ResponseCompensation
This job can be performed in Virginia with a Pay Range of $186,639.95 - $292,685.38Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's DegreeWhile possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.Certifications (if applicable)
Relevant Work Experience
10 Years +Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.