Cyber Security Operations Manager

Cyber Security Operations Manager

Liverpool (Hybrid) 75,000

We're working with a growing UK business looking to hire a Cyber Security Operations Manager to take full ownership of its security operations function, ensuring the organisation is protected, resilient, and continuously improving against an increasingly complex threat landscape.

This is a high-impact position where you'll lead the security operations function end-to-end, driving improvements across threat detection, incident response, and overall security posture within a complex, evolving environment.

The Role

You'll take ownership of security operations, ensuring the business is protected against evolving threats while continuously improving processes, tooling, and team capability.

Key responsibilities include:

Leading the day-to-day operations of the Security Operations function, including oversight of any outsourced SOC

Managing the full incident response lifecycle (detection through to recovery and post-incident review)

Overseeing threat detection, vulnerability management, and cyber defence capabilities

Driving improvements across SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and security tooling

Ensuring robust monitoring, alerting, and response across cloud, network, and endpoint environments

Partnering with Infrastructure, Cloud, and Risk teams to strengthen security across the business

Leading and developing a team of cyber engineers and analysts

Driving automation initiatives to improve response times and operational efficiency

Supporting governance, compliance, and audit requirements

Reporting on security performance, risks, and KPIs to senior stakeholders

What We're Looking For

Proven experience leading a Security Operations or SOC function

Strong understanding of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, and security tooling

Experience managing incident response and threat management in complex environments

Strong knowledge of frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, or CIS Controls

Experience working in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP)

Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills

Ability to balance hands-on technical understanding with strategic oversight

Why Join?

Opportunity to lead and shape the security operations function

High visibility role across technology and leadership teams

Business actively investing in cyber security and resilience

If you're looking for a role where you can lead, influence, and strengthen cyber security at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today with your most up to date CV.

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