Liverpool (Hybrid) 75,000
We're working with a growing UK business looking to hire a Cyber Security Operations Manager to take full ownership of its security operations function, ensuring the organisation is protected, resilient, and continuously improving against an increasingly complex threat landscape.
This is a high-impact position where you'll lead the security operations function end-to-end, driving improvements across threat detection, incident response, and overall security posture within a complex, evolving environment.
The Role
You'll take ownership of security operations, ensuring the business is protected against evolving threats while continuously improving processes, tooling, and team capability.
Key responsibilities include:
Leading the day-to-day operations of the Security Operations function, including oversight of any outsourced SOC
Managing the full incident response lifecycle (detection through to recovery and post-incident review)
Overseeing threat detection, vulnerability management, and cyber defence capabilities
Driving improvements across SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and security tooling
Ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, and response across cloud, network, and endpoint environments
Partnering with Infrastructure, Cloud, and Risk teams to strengthen security across the business
Leading and developing a team of cyber engineers and analysts
Driving automation initiatives to improve response times and operational efficiency
Supporting governance, compliance, and audit requirements
Reporting on security performance, risks, and KPIs to senior stakeholders
What We're Looking For
Proven experience leading a Security Operations or SOC function
Strong understanding of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, and security tooling
Experience managing incident response and threat management in complex environments
Strong knowledge of frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, or CIS Controls
Experience working in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
Ability to balance hands-on technical understanding with strategic oversight
Why Join?
Opportunity to lead and shape the security operations function
High visibility role across technology and leadership teams
Business actively investing in cyber security and resilience
If you're looking for a role where you can lead, influence, and strengthen cyber security at scale, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today with your most up to date CV.
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