InfoSec Technical Lead – Azure & SOC Engineering

Arthur Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Arthur Recruitment collaborates with a market-leading London-based insurance client to appoint an Information Security Technical Lead who will own end-to-end security across internal platforms and a broad client estate.

This hands-on leadership role combines engineering depth with strategic oversight, leading a security team of engineers (3 current) and acting as the senior escalation point for security incidents while driving Microsoft/Azure security, IAM, PAM, and SOC capabilities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cybersecurity, with 3–4+ years in a lead/principal capacity.
• Experience spanning security engineering + SOC / incident response.
• Strong expertise across SIEM, IAM / PAM, vulnerability tooling, and Azure security stack.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute enterprise-wide security strategy.
• Own security capabilities across PAM, SIEM, EDR/XDR, DLP, vulnerability management, and identity governance.
• Translate regulatory obligations into practical, measurable controls.
• Implement and optimise controls across Azure, M365, and infrastructure environments.
• Lead hardening initiatives across IAM, PAM, AD, and network security.
• Drive security automation and DevSecOps practices.
• Lead real-time response to security incidents and oversee SIEM/SOAR integration.
• Conduct investigations using log analysis, forensics, and threat intelligence.
• Provide advisory and managed security services to insurance clients.

Skills

Security leadership

Incident response

SOC

Automation

Tools

Sentinel

Splunk

LogRhythm

Tenable

Pentera

Azure

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Job description

Arthur Recruitment collaborates with a market-leading London-based insurance client to appoint an Information Security Technical Lead who will own end-to-end security across internal platforms and a broad client estate.

This hands-on leadership role combines engineering depth with strategic oversight, leading a security team of engineers (3 current) and acting as the senior escalation point for security incidents while driving Microsoft/Azure security, IAM, PAM, and SOC capabilities.