Hybrid Cyber Security Lead: Strategy & Incident Response

Your Ambition; Hockley; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off

Pension - 5% Employee / 5% Employer

Healthcare Cash Plan and 3x salaryLife

Annual salary review

Refer a friend scheme

Benefit Hub discounts

Volunteer Days

Job summary

Your Ambition is seeking a Cyber Security Lead to join our IT Services team in Hockley, with hybrid or remote working considered. You will shape security strategy, governance, and assurance, lead vulnerability management, and guide security operations across Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, and related technologies.

As a senior hands-on security leader, you’ll mentor the Cyber Security Engineer, work with stakeholders and customers to reduce risk, and drive continuous improvement in security

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a senior cyber security engineering, consultancy, security operations, or technical leadership role.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender technologies, vulnerability management platforms, cloud security, identity security, and incident response.
• Demonstrable experience leading Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certification activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and maintain the organisation's cyber security strategy, roadmap, and improvement programme.
• Own cyber security governance, policies, standards, risk management practices, and security assurance activities.
• Lead Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus, and support ISO27001 compliance, audit, and improvement initiatives.
• Own the vulnerability management programme, ensuring risks are prioritised, managed, and remediated effectively.
• Provide technical leadership across Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, identity, cloud, endpoint, and infrastructure security technologies.
• Lead significant cyber security incidents, investigations, response activities, and post-incident reviews.
• Act as a trusted adviser to customers and stakeholders, providing security guidance, reporting, and improvement recommendations.
• Line manage and support the development of the Cyber Security Engineer while driving continuous improvement across security services and processes.

Skills

Cyber security leadership

Governance & compliance

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Cloud security

Security operations

Stakeholder management

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender

Job description

Your Ambition is seeking a Cyber Security Lead to join our IT Services team in Hockley, with hybrid or remote working considered. You will shape security strategy, governance, and assurance, lead vulnerability management, and guide security operations across Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, and related technologies.

As a senior hands-on security leader, you’ll mentor the Cyber Security Engineer, work with stakeholders and customers to reduce risk, and drive continuous improvement in security