Security Operations Lead at Cabot Corporation in Riga, Latvia

Security Operations Lead

Location: Riga, Latvia · Hybrid

Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Our businesses deliver a broad range of products and solutions to customers in every corner of the globe, serving the transportation, infrastructure, environment and consumer industry sectors. We bring the power of innovative chemistry to solve customers' challenges today while preparing them to meet tomorrow’s needs. Our commitment to innovation is driven by a passion to advance our customers' businesses through our deep understanding of their applications and the global trends that impact their operations.

If you do not meet every requirement, or your experience is slightly different that what we have listed, we still encourage you to apply!

Your Role at Cabot

As a Security Operations Lead at Cabot, you will lead our internal security operations capability and help ensure high-quality incident triage, investigation, and response across a global, hybrid operating model. You will work closely with internal analysts and an external managed detection partner to strengthen our ability to detect, respond to, and recover from security incidents.

In this role, you will act as a senior escalation point, lead complex investigations, support repeatable incident response processes, and guide a distributed team of security analysts working across multiple regions.

This role reports to the Cybersecurity Operations Services Manager and supports a distributed team of security analysts across multiple regions.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Lead day-to-day security operations across internal analysts and an external managed detection partner.
• Own the incident lifecycle, including triage, investigation, response execution, and closure.
• Act as a senior investigator for complex incidents across endpoint, identity, network, and cloud environments.
• Manage partner escalations, handovers, and performance against agreed service levels.
• Lead, mentor, and support security analysts, helping to raise investigation quality and team capability.
• Partner with detection engineering and other stakeholders to improve alert quality, response processes, and operational reporting.

What You Will Bring to Cabot

• 8+ years in security operations or incident response, including time in a senior or lead capacity.
• Strong hands-on investigation across endpoint, network, identity, and cloud.
• Strong experience with SIEM and EDR tools, such as CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, SentinelOne, Trellix, Splunk, Sentinel, or similar solutions.
• Experience leading, coaching, or supporting analysts in a security operations environment.
• Experience overseeing a managed detection provider (MDR / MSSP).
• Excellent written and spoken English; this is our working language across a global team.

Additional Information

• Working hours: 9:00–17:30. On-call support may be required in case of major incidents.
• Permanent contract.
• Salary: EUR 3,350 – 4,800 gross per month. The final salary offer will depend on the candidate’s previous experience and qualifications.​
• Health insurance from the first day of employment.
• Monthly allowance and annual bonus.
• Hybrid work schedule: 3 days on site and 2 days working from home.

How We’ll Support Your Success:

• Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
• Hybrid Work Environment – The autonomy to both work from home 2 days a week and develop/sustain colleague relationships in the office 3 days a week.
• Benefits, Vacation, Etc.– We offer a competitive package of benefits.
• Feedback – we are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion.
• Support– you are part of a team and deserve to feel encouraged and supported. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.

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At Cabot, we bring the power of innovative chemistry and a spirit of partnership with our customers to advance solutions that will enable a sustainable future. Our strength in research and development is a major reason why we have been an industry leader for more than 135 years in products such as reinforcing and specialty carbons, battery materials, aerogel, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, masterbatches and conductive compounds.

Our employees around the world are united by our shared purpose: Creating materials that improve daily life and enable a more sustainable future. Through our corporate strategy, “Creating for Tomorrow,” we are focused on our core strengths to lead in performance and sustainability – today and into the future.