Senior Security Operations Lead - Cloud & Incident Response

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Companies House is seeking a Senior Lead Security Operations Analyst to shape and evolve our security monitoring and incident response capabilities. You will lead complex investigations, provide technical guidance, and drive improvements across Microsoft Sentinel, Defender and AWS environments.

You will balance hands-on monitoring with leadership responsibilities, mentoring analysts and coordinating across security, cloud and engineering teams to protect services and data.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on security operations experience.
• Excellent analytical and investigative skills.
• The technical knowledge to lead complex investigations and support the development of others.

Responsibilities

• Lead security investigations and incident response, coordinating containment and remediation.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to analysts.
• Develop and tune security detections to improve monitoring coverage.
• Oversee automation and response processes across Security Operations.
• Coordinate with cloud/platform teams to investigate and respond to threats.

Skills

Security operations

Analytical skills

Investigations leadership

Technical leadership

Decision making under pressure

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender

Amazon Web Services

Job description

Companies House is seeking a Senior Lead Security Operations Analyst to shape and evolve our security monitoring and incident response capabilities. You will lead complex investigations, provide technical guidance, and drive improvements across Microsoft Sentinel, Defender and AWS environments.

You will balance hands-on monitoring with leadership responsibilities, mentoring analysts and coordinating across security, cloud and engineering teams to protect services and data.