Security Operations Manager in Manchester

Location: Leeds or Manchester

Salary: Up to £85,000

Workplace Type: Hybrid (3 days a week in the office)

Employment Type: Full-Time

WHO WE ARE

We are interactive investor (ii), the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, here to help our customers take control of their financial future. For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for customer pensions, ISAs and investments. Our flat fee stays the same, so ii customers keep more of their money. Additionally, we provide an industry-leading selection of investments and a team generating up-to-date expert insight. interactive investor has been helping investors for 25 years. We are proud to have over £45 billion of assets under administration, over 500,000 customers, and to be rated ‘Excellent’ on Trustpilot.

PURPOSE OF ROLE

We are recruiting for a Security Operations Manager to join the Information Security team to support our continued growth. You will manage the SecOp’s team, helping to maintain and protect our key business assets from threats and risks by monitoring, detecting, analysing, and responding to security incidents.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the internal ii Security Operations Team (SecOps) in day-to-day activities overseeing the management, strategy, and direction of our SIEM solution, EDR solutions and security incident management.
• Monitor the security landscape, collate reports, evaluate trends and threats against our security posture, and coordinate remediation where required.
• Management of our external Security Operations Centre (SOC) and oversight of our SIEM solution.
• Responsible for the security incident process owning incident response, investigations, and lessons learnt.
• Analyse security systems / reports to identify trends and drive secure behaviours throughout the business.
• Lead on a threat intelligence, detection, and response programme of work.
• Lead the SecOps team on proactively identifying, investigating, and hunting potential attacks and security risks on networks and systems using various platform dashboards and threat feeds.
• Lead the team on analysis of security events as detected by security controls.
• Management of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) - overall ownership and maintenance of agents, creation of exception rules, and reacting to alerts.
• Play a lead role in coordinating and directing team efforts during incidents and ensuring prompt escalation.
• Oversee the vision and strategy of the Security Operations function, evolving the technology and maturity of the team.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 + years in a cyber security role.
• Ability to manage a SecOp’s team.
• Ability to define a Security Operations strategy overseeing initiatives to fruition of that strategy.
• A deep understanding of technical and network security requirements.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to proactively identify control weakness and vulnerabilities.
• Ability to decipher different types of malware and a knowledge of how to deal with it.
• Knowledge and use of SIEM tooling i.e. Google Chronicle.
• Experience in using the MITRE ATT&CK Framework to understand adversary actions and resulting mitigation techniques.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure and clearly communicate to all levels of management.
• Experience in understanding Firewalls and IDS/IPS and Windows Security Event Logs.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy to comprehend business terms.
• Ability to quickly understand existing infrastructure, network security principles, data flow and security architectures.
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of cloud infrastructure as well as traditional technologies.
• Degree in IT / Cyber preferred or industry recognised qualification.

BENEFITS

• Group Personal Pension Plan – 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution.
• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection.
• Private Medical Insurance – Provided by Bupa.
• 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays.
• Staff Discounts on our investment products.
• Personal & Well-being Fund – Supporting your physical and mental wellness.
• Retail Discounts – Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers.
• Voluntary Flexible Benefits – Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we’re currently receiving, if you haven’t been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful. interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation—whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.