SOC Team Lead
Annual
- Act as the primary liaison between clients and internal operational delivery teams, ensuring seamless communication and service excellence.
- Serve as the key escalation point for clients, managing security incidents from detection to resolution.
- Lead coordination efforts across Security Operations Centre (SOC), Incident Response, and technical teams during major incidents.
- Identify impacted systems, users, and business functions, and ensure timely stakeholder communication.
- Oversee remediation and containment activities and coordinate post-incident investigations and reporting.
- Ensure all service delivery teams meet agreed SLAs, quality standards, and client expectations.
- Prepare and deliver weekly or monthly service review reports for stakeholders.
- Support the review and optimisation of service delivery processes, ensuring continuous improvement and implementation of best practices.
- Lead vulnerability management initiatives:
- Perform risk-based vulnerability scanning across systems, applications, and networks.
- Prioritise vulnerabilities by risk level and asset criticality, coordinating remediation with business stakeholders.
- Manage and maintain IDS and IPS signature updates for client security gateways and firewalls.
- Minimum of 10 years' experience providing technical support and advisory services within a Security Operations Centre.
- Deep understanding of security incident management, SOC operations, and cyber threat response.
- At least 5 years' experience delivering vulnerability management services.
- Proven expertise in managing IDS and IPS technologies.
- Strong crisis leadership skills with the ability to manage high-pressure incidents efficiently.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively engage clients, stakeholders, and senior leadership.
- Experience leading diverse, cross-functional teams in technical environments.
- Exceptional written English skills for authoring documentation, reports, and policy updates.
- Strong verbal communication abilities, capable of simplifying complex issues for non-technical audiences.
- Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.
- Relevant professional certifications such as CISSP, GCIH, CICM, or similar.
- Eligibility to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC) is required.
- Valid right to work in the UK.
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