Cybersecurity Operations Lead

Company: Careerwise
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Location: Birmingham
Job Description:

Cybersecurity Operations Lead is required by a large company to support and lead a 24/7 Security Operations Centre.

Responsibilities:

  • Leading day-to-day SOC operations across all shifts and supporting incident escalation management.
  • Providing technical leadership on alert triage, investigations, threat hunting, and incident response.
  • Acting as the escalation point for complex or high-severity security incidents.
  • Implementing security operations process improvements and automation solutions.
  • Supporting and improving security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response tools and systems.
  • Managing, mentoring, and developing a team of SOC analysts.
  • Ensuring compliance with SLAs, reporting requirements, and security standards.

Required Experience

  • Experience in Security Operations in a senior or lead SOC role.
  • Experience working with security monitoring and detection tools such as SIEM systems, endpoint protection tools, automated response platforms, and threat intelligence feeds.
  • Experience with Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, or similar security technologies.
  • Extensive threat hunting, incident response, and detection engineering experience.
  • Experience developing and tuning detection rules and security automation.
  • Experience in an MSSP, enterprise SOC, or multi-client environment.

Posted: May 20th, 2026