Job Description:

We're partnering with a market‑leading UK financial services organisation to recruit a Security Operations Manager to play a pivotal role in strengthening and evolving their cyber defence capability.

This is a high‑impact leadership role where you'll own security operations end‑to‑end, lead incident response, and work closely with the CISO to drive continuous improvement across a mature but evolving cyber function.

• Leading and developing a Cyber Security Operations team
• Acting as incident commander during cyber events and investigations
• Maturing SOC, CSIRT and incident response capabilities
• Driving threat hunting, detection and monitoring improvements
• Owning vulnerability management and pen test governance
• Ensuring alignment with ISO27001, NIST, GDPR and regulatory expectations
• Communicating cyber risk clearly to senior stakeholders

• 5+ years' experience in cyber security, with leadership responsibility
• Strong background in security operations / SOC / incident response
• Experience working in regulated environments
• Hands‑on technical understanding paired with leadership credibility
• Excellent communication skills across technical and non‑technical audiences