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You will act as one of the firm’s incident response leads, develop our threat-informed defence capability and help shape the Security Operations roadmap in line with the wider Information Security strategy.You will combine people leadership, technical judgement and operational oversight, supporting the team to respond effectively to incidents while continuing to strengthen our detection and response capabilities. You will also help the team adapt its monitoring and response as the firm increases its use of AI.\nResponsibilities\nLead, coach and develop a team of permanent colleagues and contractors, setting priorities and managing operational capacity.\nEnsure effective security monitoring, alert investigation, detection tuning and threat hunting, continually improving our ability to identify and respond to relevant threats.\nAct as an incident response lead, coordinating assessment, containment, escalation and recovery.\nProvide a technical escalation point for teams dealing with cyber incident-related issues.\nOwn the operational use of threat intelligence and drive the threat-informed defence programme.\nSet the Security Operations roadmap, balancing capability development, operational priorities, capacity and costs.\nOversee the operational use of SIEM, EDR, and SOAR, working with Security Engineering on platform development and integrations.\nDevelop the team’s ability to monitor and respond to AI-enabled activity.\nProvide security expertise to projects and technology teams, working with Security Governance and Information Risk on controls and material risks.\nRepresent Security Operations at relevant forums and report to senior leaders on threats, incidents, performance and capability gaps.\nUse incident reviews and operational evidence to improve detections, response procedures and ways of working.\nWhat success looks like\nThe team has clear priorities, effective operational coverage and opportunities to develop its capability.\nSignificant incidents are led decisively, with timely escalation, clear communication and lessons put into practice.\nDetection and response capabilities continue to improve against threats relevant to the firm.\nThe Security Operations roadmap is deliverable within the agreed capacity and costs.\nSenior stakeholders have a clear understanding of operational threats, incidents and capability gaps. \nYour Knowledge and Experience\nExperience leading a security operations, detection and response, or incident response team.\nExperience leading significant security incidents and coordinating technical and business stakeholders.\nExperience setting operational priorities and delivering improvements to security capabilities.\nStrong practical knowledge of security investigations, incident management, containment and recovery.\nKnowledge of common attack techniques, threat intelligence, threat hunting and prevention methods.\nExperience using security telemetry and SIEM, EDR or XDR tools to investigate threats and improve detection.\nAn understanding of identity, endpoint, network and cloud security.\nExperience managing operational costs or supplier services. (Preferred).\nExperience in a large or regulated organisation. (Preferred).\nAn awareness of and interest in how AI may change security monitoring and incident response. (Preferred).\nRelevant security or incident response certification. (Preferred).\nThe type of candidate that we're looking for\nYou are a supportive and decisive manager who develops people while maintaining a strong operational service. You have the technical credibility to guide investigations and advise other teams, alongside the judgement to set direction and make sensible choices about priorities and resources.\nDuring an incident, you bring structure to incomplete information, involve the right people and communicate clearly. You work well across engineering, governance, risk and technology teams, and are curious about emerging threats and technologies, including AI.\nCritical skills\nDigital effectiveness (incl. 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