We're working with a growing UK business looking to hire a Cyber Security Operations Manager to take full ownership of its security operations function, ensuring the organisation is protected, resilient, and continuously improving against an increasingly complex threat landscape.
This is a high-impact position where you'll lead the security operations function end-to-end, driving improvements across threat detection, incident response, and overall security posture within a complex, evolving environment.
The Role
You'll take ownership of security operations, ensuring the business is protected against evolving threats while continuously improving processes, tooling, and team capability.
Key responsibilities include:
· Leading the day-to-day operations of the Security Operations function, including oversight of any outsourced SOC
· Managing the full incident response lifecycle (detection through to recovery and post-incident review)
· Overseeing threat detection, vulnerability management, and cyber defence capabilities
· Driving improvements across SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and security tooling
· Ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, and response across cloud, network, and endpoint environments
· Partnering with Infrastructure, Cloud, and Risk teams to strengthen security across the business
· Leading and developing a team of cyber engineers and analysts
· Driving automation initiatives to improve response times and operational efficiency
· Supporting governance, compliance, and audit requirements
· Reporting on security performance, risks, and KPIs to senior stakeholders
What We're Looking For
· Proven experience leading a Security Operations or SOC function
· Strong understanding of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, and security tooling
· Experience managing incident response and threat management in complex environments
· Strong knowledge of frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, or CIS Controls
· Experience working in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
· Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
· Ability to balance hands-on technical understanding with strategic oversight
Why Join?
· Opportunity to lead and shape the security operations function
· High visibility role across technology and leadership teams
· Business actively investing in cyber security and resilience
If you're looking for a role where you can lead, influence, and strengthen cyber security at scale, we'd love to hear from you.