Senior Security and Cyber Operations Manager (Financial Services)

Role: Senior Security and Cyber Operations Manager Location: Corporate Offices/Hybrid (UK) Industry: Financial Services/Insurance (Regulated Environment) Type: Full-Time, Permanentandnbsp;Senior Security andamp; Cyber Operations Manager | Operations, Incident Response andamp; AI InnovationEnd-to-end operational ownership of enterprise security operations (SOC), incident response, threat detection, and cyber defence capabilities.Drive detection engineering, SOAR automation, and AI integration across cloud, hybrid infrastructure, endpoints, and third-party services.Key focus: Incident leadership, MSSP/vendor management, response playbooks, metrics (MTTD/MTTR), and executive risk governance.About the Opportunity A leading UK financial services organisation is seeking a high-performing Senior Security and Cyber Operations Manager to lead, mature, and optimize its end-to-end security operations and cyber defence ecosystem. Reporting directly to the CISO, you will act as the organizational subject matter expert for incident response, threat monitoring, and operational cyber risk. In this hands-on leadership role, you will bridge the gap between Real Time threat telemetry and executive risk decision-making-ensuring security events are rapidly detected, contained, remediated, and learned from. You will also lead the vendor management of external MSSP partners while leveraging AI, SOAR, and intelligent data enrichment to build a modern, high-velocity SOC function.andnbsp;Key ..... full job details .....