Job Title
Cyber Security Manager – Cyber Incident Response Team
Contract Type
Permanent
Location
Alderley Park, Edinburgh or Glasgow
Working Style
Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing Date
28th April 2026
Overview
Over the last few years, we’ve been on a continuous improvement journey and are looking to expand the security and resilience team. These new roles will allow us to fully enact our threat-led security program, drive further improvements across cyber and support our organisational goal of building a secure and resilient mutual.
Responsibilities
* The role will take accountability for the day-to-day operation of the Cyber Incident Response function, leading a protective monitoring and response team to detect and respond to cyber events in a timely manner, helping to control the damage resulting from cybersecurity incidents.
* Team development objectives achieved
* Substitute for the Head of Department where necessary, communicating the RLG security issues to senior management, translating technical security risks into business problems
* All security events investigated and tracked to remediation within agreed SLA’s
* Team have the skills to conduct proactive threat hunting & analysis of security events to identify and prevent security threats from materialising
* Assist in the development of use cases, playbooks, policies and custom tooling to improve our security maturity. Recommend security enhancements and service improvement to help drive effective detection, containment and eradication of security risks.
* Team have the skills to undertake monitoring of RLG security controls, working with the Defence team to test they are operating within the expected detection guidelines
* Security event alerting or dashboard improvements identified to deliver service efficiencies
* Work closely with the Defence & Threat Intelligence teams for SOC monitoring & threat hunting activities
About You
* At leastfiveyearsof Security Incident & Operational experience inCyber security roles.
* Familiar with working toa high levelof accuracy and have a dedicated and focused work ethic.
* Aneffective communicator with proven ability to influence key stakeholders.
* Experience of leading and inspiringcybersecurity teams with differing skillsets.
* Collaborating across different teams and external partners
Advanced Knowledge of Core Security Technologies
* SIEM & XDR
* Digital Forensics
* Supply Chain Security frameworks
* Fusion testing with Cyber Tabletops and Scenario planning
* EDR/NDR
* IAM & PAM
* Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
* Security Automation & Orchestration (SOAR)
* Cyber Resilience Platforms
Advantageous Knowledge/Understanding
* Security Incident Management
* Physical Security platforms
* AI / ML in Security
* Data loss prevention
* Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
* Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
* GRC Platforms
Benefits
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services. OurPeople Promiseto our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here -Our Benefits.
Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging
We’re anInclusiveemployer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
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