Security Operations Manager

About the Role

We're looking for someone to build our security operations capability from the ground up. This covers how we spot when something is wrong, how we respond when it is, and how we keep improving both. It's a hands-on leadership role for the early stages, so you'll be setting things up and running them, not managing a large team from day one.You'll design how we do detection and monitoring for security, decide the right mix of in-house work and outsourced support, and set up how alerts are handled and escalated.

You'll also lead how we respond to incidents, working closely with our engineering and reliability colleagues, since a lot of this sits alongside how they already keep our services running.This is a deeply collaborative role. In particular you'll work hand in hand with our site reliability engineering (SRE) team, since much of security monitoring and response builds on the same tooling and ways of working they already use to keep our services running. We want to avoid heavy, siloed processes and instead build a lean, practical capability that fits how the rest of the business works, bringing in specialist help where it makes sense.Job responsibilitiesSet up detection and monitoring for security across the platform and wider IT, including the tooling, dashboards and log sources needed to investigate quicklyDecide how much we run ourselves and where we use outsourced monitoring or response, and own that relationshipSet up how security alerts are handled, owned and escalated, starting with working-hours coverageLead how we respond to security incidents, including playbooks for the most likely scenarios, a single place of record, and regular practice exercisesWork with the reliability team on resilience and recovery, including backups, restore testing and disaster-recovery exercisesTriage vulnerabilities found in our running systems and infrastructure into a shared trackerRun exercises that test and improve our defences over timeAbout youSkills, experience and

Qualifications

Experience building or leading security operations, or detection and response, ideally somewhere you had to set it up rather than inherit itStrong grounding in detection and monitoring, including logging, alerting and building useful detectionsExperience leading incident response, including playbooks, exercises and learning from what happenedA strongly collaborative approach, with real experience working alongside site reliability or platform engineering teams and sharing tooling where it makes senseExperience choosing and managing outsourced monitoring or response providersA practical, low-drama approach that keeps things proportionateWilling to explore where AI can help in security monitoring and response, and pragmatic about applying it where it genuinely fits the use caseWe especially want to hear from you if you have:Built a security operations capability in a scale-upWorked in InsurTech, FinTech or another regulated industryExperience with detection and response in cloud-based environmentsRun tabletop or disaster-recovery exercisesExperience with offensive and defensive testing to sharpen defences

Benefits

Private medical insuranceIncome protection insuranceLife insurance of 4 * base salaryOn-site gym and shower facilitiesEnhanced maternity and paternity payTeam social events and company partiesSalary exchange on pension and nursery feesAccess to Maji, the financial wellbeing platformCompany stock options managed through LedgyMilestone Birthday Bonus and a Life Events leave policyGenerous holiday allowance of 28 days plus national holidaysHome office and equipment allowance, and a company MacBookLearning allowance and leave to attend conferences or take examsYuLife employee

Benefits

, including EAP and bereavement helplinesFor each new hire, we plant a tree through our partnership with Ecologi ActionThe best coffee machine in London, handmade in Italy and imported just for us!We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities around us. If there’s anything you need to make the hiring process more accessible, just let us know - we’re happy to make adjustments. You’re also welcome to share your preferred pronouns with us at any point.Think you don’t meet every requirement?

Please apply anyway. We value potential as much as experience, and we know that raw talent counts.As part of our hiring process, we’ll carry out some background checks. These may include a criminal record check, reviewing your credit history, speaking with previous employers and confirming your academic

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