Cyber Incident Response Manager

EDF; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 74,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy provider in the UK is seeking a Cyber Incident Response Manager based in Bristol, with a hybrid work model. This role involves leading incident response activities across nuclear licensees, managing teams, and ensuring readiness in cyber security. The ideal candidate should have strong communication and leadership skills, knowledge of cyber security standards, and a background in regulated environments. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package included.

Benefits

Market-leading pension scheme

Health insurance

Gym membership

Electric vehicle leasing

Product discounts

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of cyber security standards like ISO27000.
• Experience in managing cyber threats affecting IT and industrial control systems.
• Ability to lead and support incident response efforts.

Responsibilities

• Lead response activities across nuclear licensees.
• Manage a team and coordinate incident readiness and resilience.
• Design and run cyber exercises.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Leadership

Knowledge of cyber security standards

Incident response planning

Risk management

Education

CISSP, CISM, or SANS qualifications

Job description

Overview

Gloucester Business Park, Bristol - with flexibility of working from home, minimum 3 days a week in the office. Are you experienced in cyber security and familiar with industrial systems like ICS/OT? Do you have a background in regulated environments and want to grow your skills in incident response and resilience within the nuclear sector? If so, join EDF as a Cyber Incident Response Manager!

The Opportunity: As a Cyber Security Response Lead, you’ll build and maintain a coordinated incident response capability across nuclear licensees, ensuring resilience and alignment with emergency arrangements. You’ll support the rollout of response and recovery capabilities based on the NIST Framework and the Nuclear Cyber Security Strategy. You’ll lead cyber security exercises, engage with sector working groups (including NCSC), and advise EDF on emerging threats and risk mitigation. When needed, you’ll support licensees during major incidents and provide crisis management guidance.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a starting salary of £80,000 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal. We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated. Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments. We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you’ll be doing

As Cyber Incident Response Manager, you will lead response activities across nuclear licensees, managing a team and coordinating with retained consultants to ensure readiness and resilience. Expect to establish and mentor a pool of first responders, including out-of-hours capabilities, while driving continuous improvement through lessons learned and operational experience. Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders—including NCSC, ONR, DESNZ, and EDF Enterprise IT—is key to sharing threat intelligence, guiding detection capability development, and advising on risk-based business impacts. You’ll also be responsible for designing and running cyber exercises, maintaining incident response playbooks, and integrating protocols with broader emergency arrangements. Clear communication through policy and operational documentation is essential, as is acting as a focal point for incident analysis and forensic handling. When major incidents occur, you may be called upon to support nuclear licensees directly, offering expert guidance to ensure effective containment and recovery.

Who you are

You’ll have strong knowledge of cyber security standards like ISO27000 and frameworks such as Mitre ATT&CK. You’ll understand how cyber threats affect both IT and industrial control systems, and have experience managing complex risks in regulated environments. You’ll lead and support incident response efforts, build response plans, and run exercises to keep teams prepared. Strong communication and leadership skills are key, as you’ll work closely with stakeholders across EDF and external partners like NCSC and ONR. We’re looking for someone who can work independently, make informed decisions, and guide others through cyber incidents. Experience in the nuclear or government sector is a plus, and qualifications like CISSP, CISM, or SANS would be beneficial. If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you! To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Clearance (SC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 5 years.

Closing date for applications: 12th October 2025

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