Global Cybersecurity Operations Director

Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is seeking a senior cybersecurity leader to oversee its global Cybersecurity Operations across the firm’s technology environment. You will unify monitoring, detection, response, and recovery into a cohesive, end-to-end service.

You will build and guide a global team of about 36 cybersecurity professionals, driving strategic direction, governance, and performance excellence while coordinating with internal stakeholders at the highest level.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive cybersecurity leadership in global organizations.
• Expertise across SOC, incident response, detection, vulnerability, offensive, and cloud security.
• Proven success building and maturing globally distributed cybersecurity operations.
• Experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams in multinational environments.

Responsibilities

• Set strategy, priorities, and performance expectations for global Cybersecurity Operations.
• Integrate monitoring, detection, response, recovery, vulnerability management, and offensive security.
• Develop an end-to-end Security Operations Center with clear ownership and handoffs.
• Act as senior incident commander during major cyber events with executive escalation.
• Oversee threat monitoring, detection engineering, threat hunting, triage, containment, and post-incident reviews.
• Advance attack surface management and adversarial testing to reduce risk.
• Enhance detection engineering with AI/ML to improve signal quality and speed of detection.
• Strengthen tooling, telemetry, and integration across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Lead cyber crisis preparedness through playbooks, exercises, and cross-functional coordination.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

SOC & incident response

Threat detection & vulnerability

Cloud and on-prem security

Global team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

Security tooling suite

AI/ML analytics

Job description

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is seeking a senior cybersecurity leader to oversee its global Cybersecurity Operations across the firm’s technology environment. You will unify monitoring, detection, response, and recovery into a cohesive, end-to-end service.

You will build and guide a global team of about 36 cybersecurity professionals, driving strategic direction, governance, and performance excellence while coordinating with internal stakeholders at the highest level.