Cyber Response Lead: Grow High-Impact SOC Team

Aviva; Polska; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Aviva is seeking a Cyber Response Technical Team Lead to manage and develop a team of Senior Cyber Security Analysts within our Global Security Operations Centre (GSOC).

This role combines hands-on security work with people leadership, guiding incident response to high-severity threats while shaping detection, playbooks, automation, and collaboration across cyber teams.

You'll mentor analysts, drive performance, and ensure operational readiness as threats evolve and technologies advance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Cyber Security.
• Minimum 2 years of proven people management experience.
• Experience leading senior Cyber Security professionals within SOC/CSIRT/Incident Response.
• Proven experience in coaching, mentoring, and career progression.

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing a team of Senior Cyber Security Analysts/Incident Responders.
• Owning team performance, engagement, development plans, and career progression.
• Providing coaching, mentoring, and technical leadership to enhance team capabilities.
• Coordinating day‑to‑day activities, workload prioritization, resource allocation, and team scheduling.
• Managing team capacity planning, on‑call rotations, shift coverage, and operational readiness.
• Acting as the primary GSOC escalation point for complex and high‑severity cyber security incidents.
• Leading and supporting hands‑on investigations, containment, eradication, and recovery activities during cyber incidents.
• Providing advanced technical guidance across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and threat investigations.
• Ensuring high‑quality incident response practices, investigation standards, and operational excellence.
• Coordinating incident response activities with internal stakeholders, customers, and other Cyber Security teams.
• Driving post‑incident reviews from the GSOC perspective and ensuring lessons learned are translated into measurable improvements.
• Identifying skill gaps and developing training, knowledge‑sharing, and capability‑building initiatives.
• Supporting recruitment, onboarding, succession planning, and retention of cyber security talent within GSOC.
• Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Cyber Security projects, strategic initiatives, and customer engagements.
• Providing expert input into the design, implementation, and enhancement of cyber security services and capabilities.
• Driving continuous improvement of incident response processes, fine‑tuning of detection rules, playbooks, tooling, and operational procedures.
• Championing automation initiatives to improve GSOC efficiency, investigation quality, and response times.
• Driving adoption and effective use of AI and emerging technologies across GSOC and other relevant areas where required.
• Collaborating with Detection Engineering, Cyber Incident Management, Threat Hunting, Threat Intelligence, Security Engineering, and Product teams to enhance cyber defence capabilities.
• Staying current with emerging threats, attacker techniques, and industry best practices to strengthen response capabilities.
• Contributing to the strategic development and maturity of the organization's Cyber Response and Security Operations functions.

Skills

Cyber Security

Incident Response

People Management

SOC/CSIRT

Job description

Aviva is seeking a Cyber Response Technical Team Lead to manage and develop a team of Senior Cyber Security Analysts within our Global Security Operations Centre (GSOC).

This role combines hands-on security work with people leadership, guiding incident response to high-severity threats while shaping detection, playbooks, automation, and collaboration across cyber teams.

You'll mentor analysts, drive performance, and ensure operational readiness as threats evolve and technologies advance.