Senior Cybersecurity Operations Specialist (Security Operations)

Join a leading technology organisation driving large-scale digital transformation. We are hiring a Senior Cybersecurity Operations Specialist (Security Operations) to strengthen enterprise-wide incident response, operational readiness, continuous monitoring, and vulnerability management across complex environments.

What you’ll do

In this role, you will lead and uplift cybersecurity operations standards across multiple teams and systems, ensuring strong resilience and rapid response during high-impact security incidents.

Key responsibilities include:

• Establish and maintain incident response playbooks for major threat scenarios (e.g., ransomware, data exfiltration, cloud breaches)

• Provide technical leadership and guidance during high / critical severity incidents

• Drive tabletop exercises (TTX) and resiliency testing to validate response and BCP readiness

• Improve continuous monitoring onboarding and detection coverage across systems

• Strengthen asset governance and maintain a reliable IT asset inventory

• Build and enforce vulnerability management SOPs across on-prem, cloud, and OT environments

• Oversee attack surface scanning, remediation prioritisation, and patch effectiveness validation

• Educate stakeholders to promote an “assume breach” and risk-informed operations mindset

What we’re looking for

• 8–10 years of experience in cybersecurity operations, SOC management, or incident response

• Strong track record of handling high-pressure security incidents and crisis response

• Experience across hybrid environments (on-prem, cloud, and OT/ICS)

• Strong knowledge of IR methodology, forensics, and malware analysis

• Familiar with MITRE ATT&CK, threat intel, and mapping detection use cases

• Hands-on with SIEM / SOAR / EDR / XDR and modern detection technologies

• Strong understanding of CVE / CVSS, exploitability, and remediation prioritisation

• Certifications preferred: GCIH / GCFA / CHFI / CISSP