Role overview
We're working with a growing UK business looking to hire a Cyber Security Operations Manager to take full ownership of its security operations function, ensuring the organisation is protected, resilient, and continuously improving against an increasingly complex threat landscape.
This is a high-impact position where you'll lead the security operations function end-to-end, driving improvements across threat detection, incident response, and overall security posture within a complex, evolving environment.
Responsibilities
- Leading the day-to-day operations of the Security Operations function, including oversight of any outsourced SOC
- Managing the full incident response lifecycle (detection through to recovery and post-incident review)
- Overseeing threat detection, vulnerability management, and cyber defence capabilities
- Driving improvements across SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and security tooling
- Ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, and response across cloud, network, and endpoint environments
- Partnering with Infrastructure, Cloud, and Risk teams to strengthen security across the business
- Leading and developing a team of cyber engineers and analysts
- Driving automation initiatives to improve response times and operational efficiency
- Supporting governance, compliance, and audit requirements
- Reporting on security performance, risks, and KPIs to senior stakeholders
Qualifications
- Proven experience leading a Security Operations or SOC function
- Strong understanding of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, and security tooling
- Experience managing incident response and threat management in complex environments
- Strong knowledge of frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, or CIS Controls
- Experience working in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to balance hands-on technical understanding with strategic oversight
Why join
- Opportunity to lead and shape the security operations function
- High visibility role across technology and leadership teams
- Business actively investing in cyber security and resilience
Role overview
We’re working with a growing UK business looking to hire a Cyber Security Operations Manager to take full ownership of its security operations function, ensuring the organisation is protected, resilient, and continuously improving against an increasingly complex threat landscape.
This is a high-impact position where you’ll lead the security operations function end-to-end, driving improvements across threat detection, incident response, and overall security posture within a complex, evolving environment.
Responsibilities
- Leading the day-to-day operations of the Security Operations function, including oversight of any outsourced SOC
- Managing the full incident response lifecycle (detection through to recovery and post-incident review)
- Overseeing threat detection, vulnerability management, and cyber defence capabilities
- Driving improvements across SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and security tooling
- Ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, and response across cloud, network, and endpoint environments
- Partnering with Infrastructure, Cloud, and Risk teams to strengthen security across the business
- Leading and developing a team of cyber engineers and analysts
- Driving automation initiatives to improve response times and operational efficiency
- Supporting governance, compliance, and audit requirements
- Reporting on security performance, risks, and KPIs to senior stakeholders
Qualifications
- Proven experience leading a Security Operations or SOC function
- Strong understanding of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, and security tooling
- Experience managing incident response and threat management in complex environments
- Strong knowledge of frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, or CIS Controls
- Experience working in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to balance hands-on technical understanding with strategic oversight
Why join
- Opportunity to lead and shape the security operations function
- High visibility role across technology and leadership teams
- Business actively investing in cyber security and resilience
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