Snr Mgr, CyberSec Incident Response

McGregor Boyall; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Bonus

Job summary

McGregor Boyall in North London is seeking a Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Incident Response to lead a global IR team across the US, UK and India. The role combines hands-on expertise with strategic leadership to manage major cyber incidents.

You will oversee incident command, stakeholder communications, and playbooks development, while coaching the team and aligning with security operations and business goals.

Qualifications

• Hands-on incident response experience with progression into leadership.
• Experience leading incident response teams through major cyber investigations.
• Knowledge of IR processes, tools and post-incident activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global incident response function across regions.
• Direct response activities and incident command during major incidents.
• Coordinate investigations with internal partners and external providers.
• Develop runbooks, playbooks and operating procedures for rapid response.

Skills

Incident response leadership

Incident command

Stakeholder coordination

Executive communication

Tools

EDR

SIEM

IR management platforms

Forensics tools

Job description

Incident Response, Senior Management

GBP110 – 130,000 + Benefits + Bonus

North London (x4 days a month in office)

Snr Manager, Incident Response – Lead a global cybersecurity incident response team, managing major cyber incidents and developing response capabilities. Requires demonstrable experience progressing from hands–on technical response to leadership, leading teams through complex investigations, and a solid grasp of incident response processes and tools. This is a Manager role a Manager of IR technical teams, strategic mindset and responsibilities and requires solid gravitas to take incident command/command the room with snr stakeholders as the audience.

Job Overview:

Interested in defending a global tech company from the latest cyber threats? We are seeking a passionate, experienced Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Incident Response to join our growing Cyber Defence Operations (CDO) team.

This role will lead the global incident response team across the US, UK and India, including acting as a senior technical and operational leader for major cyber incidents.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver scalable and defendable security services that not only provide for the protection of the company, customers & partner data, but that enables advantage in a competitive industry.
• Lead the global cybersecurity incident response function, ensuring the team has the people, processes and capabilities needed to respond effectively across regions.
• Lead high–priority and complex security incidents in partnership with partners across the business.
• Facilitate major incident briefings, direct response activities, and deliver clear communications for technical teams, senior stakeholders and company leadership.
• Coordinate larger investigations with internal partners, contracted security providers and/or law enforcement.
• Grow and develop the Incident Response team through coaching, training, skills development and continuous improvement.
• Build and maintain incident response runbooks, playbooks and operating procedures to support consistent, high–quality response.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrable experience progressing from hands–on technical incident response into leadership, including leading incident response teams and investigators through diverse, complex cyber investigations.
• Experience leading major cyber incidents, including incident command, stakeholder coordination, technical investigation, communications and post–incident follow–up.
• In–depth knowledge of the cyber security threat landscape and experience bringing it to bear in a tailored response to a major incident.
• Solid grasp of CDO and Incident Response processes and experience with relevant tools such as EDR, SIEM, IR management, forensics and case management platforms.