Operational Security Lead & Cyber Vulnerability Manager

FDO Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

FDO Consulting is seeking an Operational Security Lead & Cyber Vulnerability Manager to lead the organisation's security operations and vulnerability management across infrastructure and cloud. The role involves coordinating incident response, threat intelligence, and ensuring regulatory alignment, with monthly office visits in London or Berkshire.

Reporting to the CISO, you will drive risk reduction and security improvements, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on delivery in a

Qualifications

• Proven decision making in relation to cyber risk and security incidents.
• Experience across Cyber Security Operations, Cyber Defence and Vulnerability Management.
• Strong technical understanding of infrastructure and cloud (Azure preferred).
• Knowledge of working in a regulated environment (financial services preferred).

Responsibilities

• Lead security operations and incident response.
• Oversee infrastructure and cloud vulnerability management.
• Conduct firewall, networking and security configuration reviews.
• Perform third-party assessments and security service requests.
• Drive security awareness campaigns and operational compliance.
• Collaborate with CISO and act on their behalf when unavailable.

Skills

Cyber security operations

Vulnerability management

Incident management

Azure cloud

Threat intelligence

Security monitoring

SIEM operations

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Tools

SIEM (Splunk)

Azure Cloud

Job description

Operational Security Lead & Cyber Vulnerability Manager, Hyrid working with monthly visit to office in either London or Berkshire.

Market leading company in the financial service sector is looking for an Operational Security Lead & Cyber Vulnerability Manager who will be responsible for leading the organisations operational cyber security capability, ensuring the delivery of security operations, cyber incident management and infrastructure and cloud vulnerability management across the enterprise. Providing operational leadership for the identification, assessment and remediation of cyber security risks you will drive the organisations security position across infrastructure, cloud services and third parties. This includes security monitoring, incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability assessment and ensuring all risks are managed taking into account business priorities and regulatory requirements.

This role works closely with the CISO and will act on their behalf in their absence.

Key Accountabilities -

• Reduction of Cyber risk exposure through strong Security Operations Leadership.
• Cyber Incident Management and resolution.
• Infrastructure and Cloud vulnerability management.
• Firewall, Networking and Security configuration reviews.
• Third party assessment.
• Security Service Requests and Operational compliance.
• Security awareness campaigns.

Experience Required -

• Proven decision making experience in relation to cyber risk and dealing with security incidents and vulnerability management.
• Proven experience across Cyber Security Operations, Cyber Defence and Vulnerability Management.
• Strong technical understanding across infrastructure, cloud (Azure preferred), vulnerability assessment and security compliance reviews.
• Good knowledge working in a regulated environment (financial services preferred).
• Strong stakeholder management and people management experience.
• Proven ability to present to senior management.
• Further technical skills to include some of the following - Threat intelligence, Data Loss Prevention, Security Monitoring and SIEM Operations, Network Security, etc

This is an excellent chance to join a market leader in this key role. It is the chance to work very closely with the CISO. It will involve strategic and hands-on tasks and you will act on the CISO's behalf when they are not available.