Information Security Manager/SecOps Manager. Hybrid London. 1-2 days onsite Central London per week and £600-£650/day INSIDE IR35 PAY. KEY EXPERTISE AREAS ARE AS MANY OF THE FOLLOWING - CISSP, SANS, SIEM, XDR, ISO REGULATIONS, INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY/CLOUD SECURITY/365 SECURITY INC. DEFENDER & PUREVIEW etc.

My London based Property & Housing client seeks a dynamic, seasoned professional and technically astute Information Security Manager/SecOps Manager with 3-4 years minimum Lead/Manager experience & 6-7 years minimum Security/Cyber experience. You must have excellent Security expertise in most (if not all) the following areas - CISSP, SANS, SIEM, XDR, ISO REGULATIONS, INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY/CLOUD SECURITY/365 SECURITY INC. DEFENDER & PUREVIEW etc.

The role will involve working across a range of areas to support the information security needs of a busy, high-profile website, as well as an administrative IT environment that supports nearly 1,000 people across 3 office locations with many remote workers.

Role Entails:

• Providing technical leadership and acting as a subject matter expert on information security best-practice.
• Planning and delivering projects to achieve our information security objectives. Collaborating with the IT Infrastructure team on the security elements of migrating Windows estate into Azure.
• Advising our website platforms teams on security considerations impacting our website hosting environment in Google Cloud Platform & GKE.
• Working with team members and service providers on SIEM and XDR tooling and establishing processes and playbooks to support incident response and SOC activities.
• Playing a leading role in managing incident response activities and engaging with third party DFIR specialists where necessary.
• Leading threat hunts to proactively discover potential compromises before they lead to bad security outcomes.
• Helping to evaluate our response to regulatory/legislative requirements and recommending improvement actions where necessary (eg FCA compliance, ISO27001, PCI-DSS, GDPR etc).
• Keeping up to date with cyber threat intelligence and emerging attack vectors, always evaluating the materiality of the threat and helping shape our response.

Key Skills & Attributes for the ideal SecOps Manager/Security Manager as follows:

• A high-level Security qualification such as a CISSP, SANS Cyber Defence, EC-Council Certified Security Analyst, OSCP etc.
• Professional experience in three or more of the following areas (and a willingness to learn about the others): Securing Windows, Active Directory and M365 environments Linux security Container security Cloud security (ideally in GCP and/or Azure environments) Microsoft 365 security (including Defender, Purview etc.)
• SIEM, SOAR and EDR/XDR systems Incident Response.
• Strong understanding of networking principles including TCP/IP, DNS etc. and commonly used Internet protocols such as SMTP, HTTP etc.
• Experience working in IT security in a cloud hosted environment. Good data processing skills - experience with Google SecOps, ELK, Splunk or similar would be beneficial

STRONG COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS A MUST AS IS HAVING AS MANY OF THE FOLLOWNG ATTRIBUTES/SKILLS:

CISSP, SANS, SIEM, XDR, ISO REGULATIONS, INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY/CLOUD SECURITY/365 SECURITY INC. DEFENDER & PUREVIEW etc.