Cyber Security Manager

JNC Recruitment Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

JNC Recruitment Limited is recruiting a Cyber Security Operations Manager for a global law firm in London. The role oversees the firm’s cyber function, including monitoring, engineering and security controls, with a hybrid arrangement requiring 3–4 days on-site in central London.

The successful candidate will lead a cyber security team, drive threat detection and incident response, maintain runbooks, and work with senior IT and security stakeholders to enhance security posture across a regulated

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in a similar cyber security leadership role, preferably in the legal sector or heavily regulated environment.
• Proven track record of leading cyber security teams and incident response.
• Experience with outsourced SOC services and security operations.
• Strong technical background in SIEM, cloud, endpoint and email security, IAM.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the Cyber Security team and drive performance and development.
• Oversee threat monitoring, detection and response across the firm’s security program.
• Act as escalation point for complex security issues and coordinate incident response.
• Ensure triage of alerts, thorough investigations and timely resolutions.
• Maintain and improve security runbooks and standard operating procedures.
• Optimize security controls across the technology estate and review security architectures.

Skills

Security leadership

Threat monitoring

Incident response

SIEM tools

Cloud security

IAM

Vulnerability management

Stakeholder management

Tools

SIEM tools

Cloud platforms

IAM systems

Endpoint security

Job description

Cyber Security Operations Manager – London - £100-110k

We are currently working with a global law firm that is actively recruiting for a Cyber Operations Manager to join them on a permanent basis.

The role will be responsible for overseeing all of the firm’s cyber function, including monitoring, engineering and security controls, ensuring the firm is well protected from potential security threats.

This is a hybrid role with 3-4 days per week on-site in central London.

Responsibilities:

• Providing effective leadership to the Cyber Security team, focusing on individual performance and development
• Overall responsibility for threat monitoring, detection and response
• Acting as a point of escalation for complex security issues
• Ensuring triage of all security alerts and that there is thorough investigation and timely resolution
• Maintaining standard operating procedures and security runbooks
• Optimisation of security controls within the technology estate
• Reviewing security architecture designs, ensuring they meet firm security standards
• Maintaining SIEM tools, including their detection rules
• Oversight of vulnerability management across the firm
• Providing calm and effective leadership on security incident response activities
• Working closely with senior stakeholders both within security and IT and across the business
• 5+ years’ experience in a similar role in the legal sector (or a heavily regulated environment such as financial services)
• A strong track record of effectively leading cyber security teams
• Excellent incident response leadership experience
• A strong technical background, with experience working with SIEM tools, cloud technologies, endpoint and email security, IAM etc.
• Proven ability to improve operational security, detection rules and threat intelligence
• Experience working with outsourced SOC services
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with non-technical leaders