Role: SOC Manager/Cyber Security Operations Manager
Ref: 6791
Rate: c.£615.00 per day PAYE, flexible paid holiday and pension contributions
Hours: 37 hour per week
Length of Contract: 6 months
Location: Exeter
Working Arrangements: Fully Remote (some travel may be required for business needs)
Our client is seeking an experienced Security Operations Centre (SOC) Manager to lead and evolve their Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC). This is a critical leadership role responsible for protecting the organisation against real‑time cyber threats, ensuring robust incident response, and driving continuous improvement in cyber resilience.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, lead, and manage the delivery of the CSOC.
- Oversee real‑time detection, response, and remediation of cyber security incidents and data breaches.
- Manage senior stakeholders and liaise with external partners where required.
- Ensure effective controls, processes, and capabilities are in place to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
- Provide strategic guidance to senior leadership on incident response, security monitoring and logging, threat analysis and mitigation.
- Lead the development, communication, and continuous improvement of the Cyber Incident Response Plan.
- Define and manage cyber investment requirements across governance, tooling and staffing within the CSOC.
- Develop and enhance a use‑case‑driven logging, monitoring and response capability.
- Analyse network traffic and behaviours to assess and improve the overall security posture.
- Define and implement the cyber security operations strategy in line with organisational goals.
- Ensure CSOC processes align with the current threat landscape and industry best practice.
Skills & Experience Required
- Proven experience managing a Security Operations Centre (SOC) or similar function.
- Strong background in security event monitoring and incident response, including experience with SIEM and correlation tools, endpoint protection/AV solutions, and network and host‑based IDS/IPS.
- Experience with threat intelligence, monitoring and analysis.
- Hands‑on experience with vulnerability management, including scanning, remediation and mitigation.
- Solid understanding of incident response frameworks and processes.
- Knowledge of key cyber security standards and frameworks, including GDPR, NIS Regulations, NCSC guidance, MITRE ATT&CK.
- Familiarity with ITIL practices.
- Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable
- Experience working in highly regulated environments.
- Experience shaping SOC strategy and building capabilities from the ground up.
- Exposure to advanced threat detection and response methodologies.
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