About this role
Salary: £100,000 - 110,000 per year
Requirements
- At least five years of relevant cyber security experience in a regulated environment, such as legal, professional services or financial services; global law firm experience is desirable but not essential.
- Proven experience leading cyber security operations teams, including coaching and developing staff, managing priorities and providing technical escalation support.
- Strong incident response experience, including leading investigations and coordinating containment and recovery activities while remaining effective under pressure.
- Broad technical expertise across Microsoft Azure and Entra ID, SIEM and detection engineering, endpoint and email security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, network security and SASE technologies.
- Experience improving operational security through detection rules and response playbooks, threat intelligence, threat hunting and timely vulnerability remediation.
- Experience managing outsourced security providers, holding suppliers accountable for service delivery and collaborating with internal IT and Risk & Compliance teams.
- Clear communication and stakeholder management skills, including explaining technical risks to non-technical audiences and embedding security into technology projects.
- Experience transforming security operations, working with managed SOC services, security automation or purple teaming is advantageous.
- Relevant qualifications such as CISSP, CISM or GIAC, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across security operations.
- Work closely with Infrastructure, Business Systems, Service Delivery, Risk & Compliance and third-party security providers to ensure threats are identified, investigated and managed effectively.
Technologies
- Azure
- Support
- Network
- Security
- Cloud
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We are recruiting a Cyber Operations Manager for a professional services firm based in the City of London. We ideally seek someone with experience in professional services, such as legal, accountancy or consulting, or in financial services. The role follows a hybrid schedule of three days per week in the office and two days working from home. Salary is dependent on experience.
last updated 43 week of 2026