Active Defence Lead in Glasgow

Salary: £59-74K (plus up to 15% bonus, 15% pension and private healthcare)

Location: Glasgow (hybrid, 2-3 days in the office)

Permanent, Full time

**Due to the nature of the role, the successful candidate will need to be able to obtain NSV SC clearance – You will need to have lived continuously in the United Kingdom for a period of 5 years before being eligible to meet the Minimum Residency Criteria**

Help us create a better future, quicker. Are you passionate about staying one step ahead of cyber threats? We're looking for an experienced Active Defence Lead to play a pivotal role in protecting and strengthening our IT and OT environments through intelligence-led cyber defence.

What You’ll Be Doing

This is a hands-on technical role for a cyber security specialist who can turn cyber threat intelligence into meaningful action. You'll use threat insights, vulnerability analysis, detection engineering, and threat-led testing to improve our ability to identify, understand, and respond to emerging risks. As the technical lead for Active Defence, you'll work across Cyber Operations, MSSP SOC teams, OT Engineering, Architecture, and Corporate Security. Your focus will be on improving visibility across the environment, enhancing detection coverage, and ensuring our defences are aligned to real-world adversary behaviours. You'll help transform intelligence into actionable detections, strengthen monitoring capabilities, and drive improvements across the detection and response lifecycle. A key part of the role is validating how well our security controls perform against modern threats. Through adversary emulation, purple team exercises, and continuous testing, you'll identify weaknesses, uncover detection gaps, and provide clear recommendations to improve resilience. You'll also support incident response activities, using threat intelligence and attack insights to strengthen investigations, response processes, and future readiness.

What You’ll Bring

We're looking for someone with strong experience in cyber threat intelligence, detection engineering, cyber defence, vulnerability management, incident response, or threat-led testing. You'll have a deep understanding of attacker tactics and techniques, experience working with SIEM and SOAR technologies, and a strong knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework across both Enterprise and ICS environments. Exposure to OT/ICS security and standards such as IEC 62443 would be highly beneficial. This is an opportunity to make a real impact in a complex and evolving environment. You'll influence defensive strategy, improve cyber resilience across critical infrastructure, and ensure our vulnerability, detection, and response capabilities continue to evolve alongside the threat landscape. If you thrive on solving challenging security problems and want to help shape a modern, intelligence-led defence capability, we'd love to hear from you. This role supports a 24/7 cyber defence capability and may require occasional out-of-hours participation during major incidents, critical threat activity, or planned testing exercises. Some travel to operational sites may also be required.

Candidates must speak English to a native level/proficiently.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%. At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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