Incident Response Lead

Government Recruitment Service; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

The Cyber Defence team delivers cyber threat intelligence, threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management capabilities for the Cabinet Office, and is responsible for defending both internal IT infrastructure and citizen-facing services.

As a senior security analyst focused on incident response in Glasgow, you will lead investigations, coordinate forensic analysis and drive containment and recovery actions, while mentoring junior analysts and shaping playbooks.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading security incident response.
• Proven forensic analysis of systems, networks, cloud environments.
• Ability to develop and improve incident response playbooks and coach juniors.

Responsibilities

• Lead investigation of security alerts to understand the nature and extent of possible cyber incidents.
• Lead the forensic analysis of systems, files, network traffic and cloud environments.
• Lead the technical response to cyber incidents by identifying and implementing containment, eradication and recovery actions.
• Support the wider coordination of cyber incidents.
• Review previous incidents to identify lessons and actions.
• Identify and deliver opportunities for continual improvement of the incident response capability.

Skills

Incident response

Forensic analysis

Containment

Leadership

Mentoring

Job description

The Cyber Defence team delivers cyber threat intelligence, threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management capabilities for the Cabinet Office, and is responsible for defending both internal IT infrastructure and citizen-facing services. As a senior security analyst, you’ll take a leading role in building and delivering these core capabilities, focusing on incident response.

Important

This role requires SC (Security Check) which will be conducted by NSV (National Security vetting). You need to have been resident in the UK within the past five years in order to apply.

Here is a short video why this is required.

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As a senior security analyst with responsibility for incident response, you will:

• Lead the investigation of security alerts to understand the nature and extent of possible cyber incidents
• Lead the forensic analysis of systems, files, network traffic and cloud environments
• Lead the technical response to cyber incidents by identifying and implementing (or coordinating the implementation of) containment, eradication and recovery actions
• Support the wider coordination of cyber incidents
• Review previous incidents to identify lessons and actions
• Identify and deliver opportunities for continual improvement of the incident response capability
• Work closely alongside other Cyber Defence functions, supporting the continual improvement of wider capabilities
• Develop and update internal plans, playbooks and knowledge base articles
• Act as an escalation point for, and provide coaching and mentoring to, security analysts
• Be responsible for leadership and line management of security analysts

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Incident Response Lead

Company: Government Recruitment Service

Salary: £59,207 to £70,958 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Glasgow

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 2 Nov 2026

Closing date: 22 Nov 2026

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