My client, who are a global market leader within their industry, are seeking a Security Operations Manager to be responsible for leading a team of SOC Analysts and be responsible for Security Incident Management, Vulnerability Management, and Threat identification and Management.
You will report to the Head of Cyber Security and will assist them in driving the agenda to ensure security operations is embedded into the core of Cyber Security across this diverse global organisation which includes multiple locations in 12 countries.
You will provide technical expertise and leadership in the core areas of Cyber Resilience. This will involve identifying areas for improvements in process, technology and people. You will do this whilst ensuring that the SOC team is properly versed in all security solutions, tools and applications and that they are fit for purpose, correctly deployed and provide visibility across all operating environments.
Duties:
Lead and mentor a high-performing SOC team
Provide oversight of the Security Operations centre and associated services
Identify opportunities to leverage technologies to enhance the levels of monitoring, alerting and reporting
Ensure that best practice procedures are implemented and maintained to ensure a uniform security risk profile exists
Use new and existing tools to identify vulnerabilities, threats and risks to the business
Implement continuous monitoring, response and mitigation plans with the Head of Cyber Security
Monitor and identify anomalous activity and breaches of policy
Support with security solutions design decisions, evaluation and selection of tools and solutions, creating functional and non-functional requirements
Work with existing vendors & suppliers to continuously explore and implement cost effective measures to optimise security investments.
Research industry best practices to keep abreast of new developments in a fast-changing security landscape, ensuring the business adapts to and enhances its security controls accordingly.
Work closely with the Security Architecture and Engineering team to evaluate the impact and relevance of implementing new security solutions and methodologies.
Drive a threat modelling culture that will enable the business to quickly and efficiently identify areas of concern to the industry and derive necessary mitigations.
Define and implement methods to continually measure the level of maturity of our Incident detection & response, Threat, Risk and Vulnerability management.
Contribute to the development and delivery of multi-year security strategies
Required skills:
Experience in leading security incident response, ideally in a large geographically dispersed organisation
Excellent understanding of Threat, Vulnerability and Risk Management requirements of a large and diverse organisation
InfoSec protection and detection capabilities
InfoSec best practices
Ability to evaluate, raise awareness of and articulate risks
Identity and Access Management, Network Security, Access Control, threat, Incident and Vulnerability Management, Device and Network Hardening methods
PaaS and SaaS cloud environments - AWS, Azure and GSuite
Experience of working across global teams and time zones, cultures and languages
Knowledge of best practices such as CIA, SANS, OWASP, CSA etc.
To be considered for this role please send an up to date copy of your CV as soon as possible to arrange a call.
Contact: Dan Easterbrook