Manager, Cyber Security Office in London

Role: SOC Manager

Salary/Rate: £700-850 per day inside IR35

Location: Mainly remote, must be UK-based

Contract Duration: 6-month contract

We are currently looking for a SOC Manager for our government client. This SOC Manager role is mainly remote, however successful candidates must be able to travel to UK sites as required. There is no further flexibility with the on-site requirement.

The contract for this SOC Manager position is for 6-months, with potential to extend, operating inside IR35.

Security Clearance: Security Check (SC Clearance)

This role is inside IR35 - Due to the service of the role, it will now be based on an Umbrella solution.

Essential skills/experience required:

• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team, including decision-making, effective communication and service management skills.
• In-depth knowledge of incident management processes, including the ability to assess the impact of critical security incidents and lead the response efforts, ensuring procedures are available and maintained.
• Proven experience delivering an effective security monitoring capability, with continuous improvements that reflect changes from risks and threats in a timely manner, including proactive threat hunting and intrusion detection.
• Proven experience delivering threat intelligence and assessment in the context of the organisation to stakeholders by gathering and analysing information to identify and mitigate cyber threats from both open-source (OSINT) and commercial threat intelligence.
• Proven experience operating cyber security solutions and tools e.g. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), maintaining security records and documentation in accordance with security operating procedures.
• Demonstrated experience in managing relationships with external vendors, managed security service providers (MSSPs), and technology partners, ensuring contractual obligations, service level agreements (SLAs), and performance metrics are consistently met or exceeded.

Role / Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage and mentor a team of cyber security analysts to ensure the team operate effectively.
• Develop the team utilising the career framework to identify learning needs and career pathways.
• Lead incident detection, triage, escalation and resolution processes; assessing impacts and directing appropriate measures to contain and mitigate threats, conduct post-incident reviews and drive continual service improvement including exercising to test procedures.
• Be the escalation point for alerts. Provide direction for improvements to monitoring systems for our environment covering specific technologies or threats. Direct the development and tuning of new and existing rules.
• Stay up to date on the latest cyber threats and attack techniques, incorporating threat intelligence into security practices, cascading to relevant stakeholders.
• Define cyber security metrics and targets.
• Prepare and present regular reports on security incidents, and trends to management, translating technical metrics into business-focused risk insights.
• Oversee service providers, managing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), serve as the principal interface with cross-government departmental SOCs.
• Support the management of the department budget to ensure optimal allocation of resources to meet security objectives.

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As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Circle and our Client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Our client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, they guarantee to interview all veterans, spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where they have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses, partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, they will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify, please notify us on igs [at] circlerecruitment [dot] com. We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your guaranteed interview.

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