Cyber Operations Director: Incident Response & SOC Lead

CM Law Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank, an international law firm in London, seeks a senior Cyber Operations Manager to lead the security operations function. You will own the team, drive incident response, and collaborate with IT and Risk & Compliance to improve security postures.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will set priorities, mentor staff, coordinate with external providers and translate technical risk into clear business decisions, shaping security across the estate.

Qualifications

• At least five years' cyber security experience in a regulated environment.
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Responsibilities

• Leading, coaching and developing the cyber security operations team, managing priorities and acting as the technical escalation point
• Leading incident response - running investigations and co-ordinating containment and recovery
• Improving operational security through detection rules, response playbooks, threat intelligence and threat hunting
• Driving timely vulnerability remediation across the estate
• Managing outsourced security providers and holding them accountable for service delivery
• Explaining technical risk to non-technical audiences and embedding security into technology projects

Skills

Cyber security leadership

Incident response

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Azure

Entra ID

SIEM

Endpoint security

Email security

IAM

Vulnerability management

SASE

Job description

Bank, an international law firm in London, seeks a senior Cyber Operations Manager to lead the security operations function. You will own the team, drive incident response, and collaborate with IT and Risk & Compliance to improve security postures.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will set priorities, mentor staff, coordinate with external providers and translate technical risk into clear business decisions, shaping security across the estate.