SOC Manager

SOC MANAGER - PRESTIGE CYBER SECURITY OPPORTUNITY WITH A NATIONAL INSTITUTION! REMOTE ROLE WITH OCCASIONAL SITE VISITS.

(Apply online only) PER DAY INSIDE IR35 UMBRELLA.

The Role

• Define and lead the delivery of the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) to detect real-time cyber security incidents/data breaches and manage response and remediation activities, including the management of senior stakeholders and external agencies.
• Ensure adequate controls, practices and capabilities are in place to identify vulnerabilities across the estate and define the process for remediation or mitigation to ensure cyber readiness and resilience against attack.
• Providing strategic level advice to senior management regarding incident response, monitoring, logging and analysis of all relevant systems and processes.
• Leading the development, communication and continuous improvement of the cyber incident response plan Identification of and planning for the required levels of cyber investment within the CSOC to include governance, tooling and staffing.
• Defining and continuous development of a use case-driven logging, monitoring and response capability to ensure responsiveness and resilience to cyber security threats. analysis of network traffic and behaviours; to evaluate the security environment and disseminate that information to other areas of the business;
• Defining the cyber security operations strategy in coordination with senior business and external stakeholders, this includes the management of the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) and processes in accordance with the threat posture and government direction.
• Knowledge of National Cyber Security Centre incident response and information security processes and policies.

Typical Skills:

• Experience in the management of Security Event Monitoring and operational response by means of monitoring and correlation tooling, antivirus, network and host IDS/IPS monitoring and logging;
• Knowledge of Cyber security regulations and industry framework e.g. GDPR, Network and Information Systems (NIS) regulations, NCSC;
• Knowledge of ITIL; Knowledge of Mitre ATT&CK etc;
• Threat monitoring and intelligence gathering and assessment; processes to scan for vulnerabilities and implementing fixes and mitigations; Incident response management
• Leadership of an SOC centre
• Security Clearance preferred

Is this you? If you fit the bill as described above we are urgently hiring this role, send your application in and we will be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail straight away