Role: Senior Security and Cyber Operations Manager
Location: Corporate Offices / Hybrid (UK)
Industry: Financial Services / Insurance (Regulated Environment)
Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Senior Security & Cyber Operations Manager | Operations, Incident Response & AI Innovation
End-to-end operational ownership of enterprise security operations (SOC), incident response, threat detection, and cyber defence capabilities.
Drive detection engineering, SOAR automation, and AI integration across cloud, hybrid infrastructure, endpoints, and third-party services.
Key focus: Incident leadership, MSSP/vendor management, response playbooks, metrics (MTTD/MTTR), and executive risk governance.
About the Opportunity
A leading UK financial services organisation is seeking a high-performing Senior Security and Cyber Operations Manager to lead, mature, and optimize its end-to-end security operations and cyber defence ecosystem.
Reporting directly to the CISO, you will act as the organizational subject matter expert for incident response, threat monitoring, and operational cyber risk. In this hands-on leadership role, you will bridge the gap between real-time threat telemetry and executive risk decision-making-ensuring security events are rapidly detected, contained, remediated, and learned from. You will also lead the vendor management of external MSSP partners while leveraging AI, SOAR, and intelligent data enrichment to build a modern, high-velocity SOC function.
Key Accountabilities
End-to-End Cyber Defence Ownership: Lead the complete operational lifecycle across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, NDR, and identity telemetry-covering monitoring, alert triage, incident containment, root-cause eradication, and post-incident learning.
Major Incident Response & Crisis Leadership: Act as the operational escalation point during major security events; lead crisis containment strategies, evidence collection, regulatory reporting, and executive updates.
AI, SOAR & Continuous Improvement: Champion the practical application of AI, orchestration, and automated triage to reduce alert fatigue, minimize fa...
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