Senior Cyber Security Technical Specialist

As a Senior Cyber Security Technical Specialist, you lead the monitoring, detection, investigation, and response to cyber threats and incidents across the organisation. You will apply a broad mix of security technologies, threat intelligence, and ops processes to identify and mitigate risks. You’ll enhance detection capabilities and coordinate incident response, ensuring compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements. This hybrid role sits at Coventry or Manchester, with on-site collaboration and CIDO events, offering a chance to shape the security posture at a major financial institution.

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays
• annual discretionary bonus
• pension with matched contributions
• life assurance (6x salary)

• Lead monitoring, detection, and response to cyber threats and incidents across the organisation
• Develop, optimise, and tune security monitoring and detection capabilities
• Coordinate incident response activities and conduct impact assessments
• Improve security controls and detection use cases to mature the defence capabilities
• Ensure operational and change initiatives comply with security standards and regulatory requirements

• Experience in a Security Operations Centre (SOC) within a complex enterprise environment
• Experience in Financial Services with understanding of regulatory expectations and UK retail financial services challenges
• Strong knowledge of SIEM, EDR/XDR, threat intelligence, and security monitoring technologies
• Proven ability to investigate complex security incidents and coordinate incident response
• Desirable: cloud security operations experience and familiar frameworks/regulations (NIST, ISO 27001, ITIL)
• Desirable: professional certifications (CISSP, CEH, GCIH, GCIA, GCFR, CREST)

• proactive problem solving
• cross-functional collaboration
• analytical mindset
• SIEM
• EDR/XDR
• threat intelligence