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This is an exciting opportunity to join a business where you'llhave genuine influence, helping to strengthen our capabilities while supporting innovation and growth.\nThis role combines technical expertisewith people leadership. You'llstay close to the technology, leading investigations, enhancing our tooling and cloud environments, and developing a talented team of Security Analysts.\nIf you enjoy solving complex problems, working collaboratively and continuously learning in a fast-moving environment, we'dlove to hear from you.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nYou'lllead investigations into incidents, helping the business identify, containand learn from emerging threats, while continually enhancing our monitoring and response capabilities.\nYou'lltake ownership of our security tooling estate, ensuring key platforms remaineffective, reliableand aligned to business needs. 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