Cyber Operations Manager

About the role

The role leads cyber security operations within a safety-critical engineering environment, overseeing threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management and penetration testing. It combines hands-on technical work with team leadership to protect critical infrastructure and shape the organisation’s security capability.

Key responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day cyber security operations and security monitoring.
• Deploy, manage and optimise SIEM platforms, including alert tuning, use-case development and threat detection.
• Own vulnerability management programmes from assessment through remediation.
• Plan and coordinate penetration testing across enterprise and engineering environments.
• Lead incident response investigations, containment and recovery activities.
• Develop security baselines and monitor compliance across infrastructure and systems.
• Mentor and develop SOC analysts and support growth of the cyber operations function.
• Assess cyber risks and implement practical security controls.

Required profile

• 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience deploying and managing enterprise SIEM solutions.
• Strong expertise in vulnerability management, incident response and penetration testing.
• Experience in defence, aerospace, critical infrastructure or other highly regulated sectors.
• Excellent stakeholder management and team leadership abilities.

Required skills

• SIEM platforms
• Security monitoring
• Security baselines
• Incident response
• Vulnerability management
• Penetration testing
• Threat detection

What we offer

• Opportunity to lead a growing cyber operations capability.
• Influence security strategy through hands‑on delivery.
• Protect mission‑critical systems in an innovative engineering environment.