We're partnering with a market‑leading UK financial services organisation to recruit a Security Operations Manager to play a pivotal role in strengthening and evolving their cyber defence capability.
This is a high‑impact leadership role where you'll own security operations end‑to‑end, lead incident response, and work closely with the CISO to drive continuous improvement across a mature but evolving cyber function.
What you'll be doing
- Leading and developing a Cyber Security Operations team
- Acting as incident commander during cyber events and investigations
- Maturing SOC, CSIRT and incident response capabilities
- Driving threat hunting, detection and monitoring improvements
- Owning vulnerability management and pen test governance
- Ensuring alignment with ISO27001, NIST, GDPR and regulatory expectations
- Communicating cyber risk clearly to senior stakeholders
What we're looking for
- 5+ years' experience in cyber security, with leadership responsibility
- Strong background in security operations / SOC / incident response
- Experience working in regulated environments
- Hands‑on technical understanding paired with leadership credibility
- Excellent communication skills across technical and non‑technical audiences
