SOC Manager

Salary: £80,000.00 to £100,000.00
Location: York
Hybrid - On site 1 day a week.

A leading international insurance business is seeking a SOC Manager to strengthen cyber defence, improve detection capability, and support incident response within a high-performing Cyber Fusion Centre.

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape proactive security operations, drive continuous improvement across detection use cases, and play a key part in protecting critical business assets. The SOC Manager will work alongside specialist security leaders and project teams, helping to mature the company’s monitoring, response, and resilience capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Direct and guide the Blue Team in daily operations, aligning activity with business security objectives and threat intelligence.
• Oversee continuous monitoring of networks and systems for security breaches or anomalies.
• Design and maintain incident response plans to support effective mitigation of security events.
• Coordinate Blue Team exercises to strengthen detection and response readiness.
• Allocate and manage resources to support performance and address skill or capacity gaps.
• Perform gap analysis across detection use cases and identify new data sources for SIEM onboarding.
• Use actionable threat intelligence to develop new detection use cases and improve SIEM capability.
• Support operational resilience across technology, people, and process for detection and response.
• Lead initial response to security incidents, including escalation and post-incident lessons learned.
• Coach and mentor team members to encourage continuous learning and professional development.
• Develop and maintain security operations policies, processes, and playbooks.
• Provide regular reporting on security status, incidents, and KRIs to senior stakeholders.