Cyber Security Manager | SOC manager | IT Security Manager

Reed Technology

Cyber Security Manager | SOC manager | IT Security Manager

The role can be remote based with travel to their regional offices once a week (They have over 18 offices around the UK).

The role:

A Cyber Security Operations Manager is required to join an expanding security team to manage and enhance security operations processes whilst assisting the implementation of several new security solutions to detect threats and mitigate key risks.

This is ideal for existing managers as well as somebody with significant hands-on technical security operations experience, and some leadership/mentoring experience, that wants to take on a management role. This role has a strategic aspect so the ability to review current processes and developing our hybrid security team is critical.

Duties:

• Review and maintain security operations documentation, run books and technical solutions to carry out daily security operations under an ITIL framework.
• Perform timely security incident investigation to recover service in complex hybrid environment.
• Prioritise security events, work collaboratively, organise security operations personnel and represent the security team at meetings.
• Create and maintain monthly security performance metrics.
• Work to defined SLAs & KPIs, whilst promoting and adhering to the workplace values
• Develop an understanding of the threats, risks, vulnerabilities, and evolving attack vectors facing the business.
• Take ownership of security detection/prevention systems to maintain accurate logs, automate processes, and ensure detection of suspicious/malicious events.
• Be able to analyse and make recommendations to implement effective security controls.
• Manage group security training and awareness campaigns.
• Assist in technical vulnerability management and security testing.
• Assist in supplier due diligence.

Essential skills sought:

• A leader in cyber security operations, with expert technical knowledge and experience in incident management.
• Ability to take a risk-based approach eg prioritise between time critical tasks and things that can wait.
• Proactive mindset with ideas about future direction of security operations and motivated to improve processes.
• Ability to manage personnel, set objectives and work constructively with the wider business.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills with ability to create, update and maintain documentation eg incident reports and Ops runbooks.
• Threat assessment, threat intelligence, SIEM, XDR, AV, APT, email security gateways, log correlation, phishing, malware, risk management, security triad (CIA), access control, Firewalls, ACLs, VPN, DLP, web Proxy, TCP/IP, NTP, Encryption, Syslog, CVSS etc.
• Excellent attention to detail and reliability

Benefits include a bonus, flexible working, a great pension and holiday allowance.