Head of Security Operations - #1687000

Title: Head of Security Operations

Location: Manchester

Salary: Up to £120,000 base salary plus bonus.

VIQU have partnered with a leading Managed Service Provider who are recruiting for a Head of Security Operations to lead and manage the Security Operations Centre (SOC). The candidate must have experience working in a Managed Service setting and must have either set up or improved an existing SOC in this company.

This is a strategic role, coming in to improve the SOC over time, automate processes, improve scalability and manage members of the team.

Key responsibilities of the Head of Security Operations:

• Manage the continual improvement of the SOC team (currently 26 people), leading it to become more automated and scalable.


• Develop the SOC, ensuring it can serve international clients.


• Implement and come up with new processes and manage governance of the SOC.


• Act as a senior point of escalation – including but not limited to, hierarchical, technical and customer escalations.


• Ensure that integration, release and operational procedures and practices are well defined, documented and consistently applied.

Experience needed for the Head of Security Operations:

• Must hold experience of working in a senior capacity in Managed Service setting.


• Must have previously either developed a new SOC team, or led and improved an existing SOC team, ensuring that it is scalable and automated.


• Have a strong personality, with an ability to lead a team and manage key stakeholders within the business.


• Relevant Security industry certifications, CISSP/CISM.


• Strong understanding of sophisticated threat actor methodologies, technical tools (Sentinel, Alienvault ect.) and experience in incident response and forensic investigations.


• Strong knowledge of ITIL processes.

Title: Head of Security Operations

Location: Manchester

Salary: Up to £120,000 base salary plus bonus.

To discuss this exciting opportunity in more detail, please APPLY NOW for a no obligation chat with your VIQU Consultant. Additionally, you can contact Jack McManus on ************@viqu.co.uk.

If you know someone who would be ideal for this role, by way of showing our appreciation, VIQU is offering an introduction fee up to £1,000 once your referral has successfully started work with our client (terms apply).

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