Security Operations Lead — Incident Response

Baillie Gifford Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Baillie Gifford in Edinburgh seeks a Team Manager to lead Security Operations, guiding detection, response and threat-informed defence across the firm. You will coordinate incident response, manage a team of specialists, engage with stakeholders and shape the capabilities to protect critical assets.

You will drive improvements in security monitoring, enable AI-aware operations and ensure effective use of SIEM/EDR/SOAR tools while aligning with risk governance and budgets.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a security operations, detection and response, or incident response team.
• Experience leading significant security incidents and coordinating technical and business stakeholders.
• Knowledge of attack techniques, threat intelligence, threat hunting and prevention methods.
• Experience using security telemetry and SIEM/EDR/XDR tools to investigate threats and improve detection.
• Understanding of identity, endpoint, network and cloud security.
• Experience managing operational costs or supplier services.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of permanent colleagues and contractors, setting priorities and managing operational capacity.
• Ensure effective security monitoring, alert investigation, detection tuning and threat hunting, continuously improving detection/response.
• Act as an incident response lead, coordinating assessment, containment, escalation and recovery.
• Provide a technical escalation point for teams handling cyber incident issues.
• Own threat intelligence usage and drive the threat-informed defence programme.
• Set the Security Operations roadmap balancing capability development, priorities, capacity and costs.
• Oversee the use of SIEM, EDR and SOAR with Security Engineering on integrations.
• Develop the team’s ability to monitor and respond to AI-enabled activity.
• Represent Security Operations to senior leaders and provide insights on threats and capability gaps.

Skills

Security leadership

Incident response

Threat intelligence

AI in security

Communication with stakeholders

Cost management

Team coaching

Security governance

Education

Security certification

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

XDR

Job description

Baillie Gifford in Edinburgh seeks a Team Manager to lead Security Operations, guiding detection, response and threat-informed defence across the firm. You will coordinate incident response, manage a team of specialists, engage with stakeholders and shape the capabilities to protect critical assets.

You will drive improvements in security monitoring, enable AI-aware operations and ensure effective use of SIEM/EDR/SOAR tools while aligning with risk governance and budgets.