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Head of Cyber Security Operations
£10,200 - 10,200
Intec Select Ltd
Church Street, Exeter
£10,200 - 10,200
Requirements
Must:
- Proven experience leading a Security Operations Centre (SOC/CSOC) or cyber security operations function
- Strong background in incident response, threat detection, and cyber resilience
- Hands-on experience with SIEM, IDS/IPS, endpoint security, and monitoring tools
- Solid understanding of threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and remediation practices
- Knowledge of cyber frameworks and regulations including GDPR, NIS, and National Cyber Security Centre guidance
- Familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and ITIL processes
- Experience operating within complex, regulated environments (e.g. public sector, financial services)
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior level
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC), ensuring effective detection, response, and remediation of cyber incidents
- Own and continuously improve the cyber incident response plan, ensuring readiness across the organisation
- Provide strategic cyber security advice to senior leadership on monitoring, logging, and threat response
- Establish a use-case driven monitoring and alerting capability to improve threat detection and response times
- Oversee threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and proactive risk mitigation across the estate
- Lead the analysis of network traffic and behaviours, identifying threats and communicating insights to the wider business
- Define and manage cyber security operations strategy, aligned to organisational risk appetite and government guidance
- Manage stakeholders and external agencies, including regulatory bodies where required
- Identify and plan cyber investment requirements across tooling, governance, and team capability
Description
We are an enterprise government-backed organisation based in Exeter, offering a hybrid work environment with 2 days onsite. We provide a competitive day rate of £850 (Umbrella) / £616.61 (PAYE) for a critical 6-month rolling contract role as the Head of Cyber Security Operations. In this high-impact position, you will shape our cyber strategy at the enterprise level, working closely with senior stakeholders and external agencies. This role is essential for protecting our organisation against real-time cyber threats, driving incident response, and ensuring resilience across our complex technology estate.
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