Cyber Security Operations Manager

Vitality; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus schemes

Pension up to 12% matched up to 6%

Vitality health insurance

Life assurance 4x salary

Job summary

Vitality in Stockport is seeking a strategic Information Security leader to mature cyber security capabilities. You will lead a team of security analysts and a service delivery manager, guiding risk management, threat monitoring, incident response, resilience planning, and training.

The role supports long-term security goals, including roadmap development and steering future security operations, reporting to Senior Management and collaborating with internal stakeholders and external bodies.

Qualifications

• Degree or professional security qualifications such as MSc, CISSP, CISM, CISA or equivalent.
• Extensive experience working in Cyber Security with proven leadership skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to articulate technical knowledge to a non‑technical audience; production of policy/standards/project documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cyber Security Operations team and service delivery manager.
• Conduct cyber risk assessments and report metrics to Senior Management.
• Manage cyber security incidents; coordinate forensic investigations and mature detection/response capabilities.
• Ensure compliance with ISMS and regulatory requirements (ISO27001, GDPR, NIST, PCI DSS).
• Develop and deliver information security initiatives aligned with strategy and risk framework.

Skills

Security leadership

Incident response

Risk & compliance

Education

MSc or security certifications (CISSP/CISM/CISA)

Job description

Team -

Information Security

Working Pattern -

Hybrid - Minimum 2 days per week in the Vitality Stockport Office. Full time, 35 hours per week.

We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Security Operations Leadership & Incident Response
• Risk, Governance & Regulatory Compliance
• Technical Depth in Monitoring & Security Engineering

What this role is all about:

You will be joining a vibrant, exciting environment to lead on maturing the cyber security capabilities at Vitality. We are a values-based organisation and our members are at the heart of everything we do. The primary purpose of the role is to support with the implementation of the Information Security Strategy and protecting Vitality’s and its member’s data. You will be leading a team of security analysts and a service delivery manager with specific skill sets. This role provides cyber security leadership through risk management, threat monitoring, incident response, resilience planning, training, and CSIRT team support. In addition to your daily responsibilities, you will be playing a part in the longer‑term security goals such as continuous improvement, developing a technology roadmap and steering the future direction of security operations.

Key Actions

• Leadership and management of the Cyber Security Operations team
• Conducting cyber security maturity assessments; continuous improvement of existing security controls and assessing new tools/capabilities for recommendation to management
• Perform cyber risk assessments; develop reporting metrics to articulate risk posture to Senior Management
• Be the key contact for, and lead on the management of Cyber Security incidents, performing and co‑ordinating forensic investigations; mature the Cyber Incident detection and response capabilities
• Engagement with internal stakeholder and external bodies as required, Vendors, forensic partners, regulatory bodies
• Threat hunting; monitoring for emerging security threats
• Ensure compliance with Vitality’s ISMS, Regulatory requirements and Information Security best practice frameworks (e.g. ISO27001, GDPR, NIST, Cyber Essentials, ITIL) to ensure the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of Vitality Information Systems
• Deliver key Information Security initiatives/projects, in line with InfoSec and Cyber Security strategy and Enterprise Risk Management Framework
• Responsible for ensuring that Vitality IT assets are adequately protected from Cyber‑attacks and malicious insiders
• Provide expert professional advice across Vitality on Information and Cyber Security best practice, training, and awareness sessions

What do you need to thrive?

• Degree or professional security qualifications and certifications such as MSc, CISSP, CISM, CISA or equivalent
• Extensive experience working in Cyber Security with proven leadership skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to articulate technical knowledge to non‑technical audience; production of policy/standards/project documentation
• Appropriate level of technical knowledge, hands‑on experience of configuring security tools
• Demonstrable experience of designing, implementing and managing information security initiatives
• Sound understanding of security frameworks (e.g. ISO27001/2, PCI DSS, NIST), Data Protection and regulatory compliance (e.g. FCA, ICO, PRA, GDPR)

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes - A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%- We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award‑winning Vitality health insurance - With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance - Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page.

Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.