Cyber Security Operations Lead

JR United Kingdom; Lincoln; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A public sector organization is seeking a Cyber Security Operations Lead for a 12-month contract in Edinburgh, offering a competitive daily rate. The role involves leading security monitoring improvements, facilitating incident response, and collaborating on threat intelligence. Ideal candidates will possess strong technical skills, relevant certifications, and a proactive approach to security operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in incident response and security monitoring.
• Certifications in Microsoft Azure and SANS or equivalent.
• Proficiency with Qualys, M365 Defender, and threat hunting practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and improve security monitoring and vulnerability scanning.
• Act as the technical escalation point for significant incidents.
• Design and implement security KPIs and management reporting.

Skills

Incident response

Security monitoring

Vulnerability scanning

Technical communication

Threat hunting

Education

Microsoft engineering level certifications

SANS or similar security operations certifications

Tools

Qualys

M365 Defender

Sentinel

Fortinet

Power Platform

Job description

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Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Cyber Security Operations Lead for an initial 12 month contract on a rate of £525-£575/day (Outside IR35). This role will be based in Edinburgh - home working will be considered subject to attendance where needed.

Responsibilities:

- Use understanding of digital systems and attack frameworks to apply theory to practice.

- Be aware of the current cyber threat landscape and industry best practices and standards.

- Lead on improvement to coverage and depth of security monitoring and vulnerability scanning

- Design vulnerability data gathering and prioritisation procedures

- Act as technical escalation point for analysts on significant incidents, investigations, including hands on experience

- Establish procedures for intelligence ingestion and threat hunting

- Working with architects and interpreting designs to ensure strong handover to SecOps during new service go live.

- Recommendation and implement improvements to SecOps processes and tools (e.g. automation of workloads)

- Design security KPIs and SecOps management reporting, and the gathering of data in support of them

- Own completion and accuracy of all SecOps-related product delivery evidence

- Security monitoring service delivery and improvement

- Vulnerability detection service improvement, finding prioritisation and reporting.

- Ability to communicate on technical issues with users and senior managers

- Recent experience in incident response

- Ability to work well in small team with internal colleagues and suppliers

- Ability to self-start, accept ownership and oversee organisation wide protective responsibilities

- Ability to share knowledge and experience with colleagues, including mentoring of analysts

- Experience with Qualys, M365 Defender, Sentinel, Fortinet, Power Platform

- Microsoft – on-premise and cloud related engineering level certifications

- SANS or similar security operations certifications

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.