SOC Manager: Lead MDR Operations & Team

CyPro; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training budget

Social activities

Canary Wharf office

Job summary

CyPro is a growing cyber security business seeking a SOC Manager to lead day-to-day MDR delivery across a portfolio of clients from our Canary Wharf office. You will lead SOC Analysts and Senior SOC Analysts, drive detections, investigations and reporting, and develop the team while maintaining high incident-response standards.

We value practical security operations expertise, strong stakeholder communication, and a track record of building capability within a SOC.

Qualifications

• Experience leading or supervising a SOC or security operations team.
• Strong practical knowledge of SIEM, EDR/XDR, incident response, alert triage, detection engineering, threat hunting, automation and SOC reporting.
• Excellent written and spoken English for client and senior stakeholder communication.
• Must have right to work in the UK and be able to work from Canary Wharf office three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Own MDR delivery across a portfolio of clients.
• Lead SOC Analysts and Senior SOC Analysts; escalation point for incidents.
• Improve detections, investigations, automation, processes and reporting.
• Develop people, challenge investigations and maintain technical credibility.
• Manage workloads, SLAs, KPIs, and client communications.
• Support onboarding, runbooks, and service improvements.
• Coach and develop team; ensure quality of investigations and runbooks.

Skills

SOC leadership

Security operations

English communication

UK right to work

Cyber security background

Job description

CyPro is a growing cyber security business seeking a SOC Manager to lead day-to-day MDR delivery across a portfolio of clients from our Canary Wharf office. You will lead SOC Analysts and Senior SOC Analysts, drive detections, investigations and reporting, and develop the team while maintaining high incident-response standards.

We value practical security operations expertise, strong stakeholder communication, and a track record of building capability within a SOC.