Location: Salford

Salary: £49,850 plus skills allowance of up to £7,550

Advert Close: Thursday 1st October

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The Role

The Senior Response Manager with Cyber Threat Intelligence is responsible for supporting threat intelligence activities, including the monitoring, analysis, and investigation of cyber security threats, events, and incidents. Working as part of a specialist Threat Intelligence team, you will help develop and enhance capabilities to address emerging threats, implement complex intelligence-led solutions, and deliver strategic initiatives focused on threat analysis, risk reduction, and continuous improvement across the organisation. You will also support the development and management of intelligence-driven responses to security incidents, collaborating with stakeholders across the business to ensure effective incident handling and strengthen defences against future threats.

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Job Description

Threat intelligence professionals support the identification, analysis, and assessment of threats whilst helping to improve organisational readiness through exercises, threat hunting, hypothesis generation, and red team activity. The Threat Intelligence function also advises product and service owners on emerging threats, risks, and potential mitigations.

As a Senior Response Manager in Cyber Threat Intelligence, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Carry out threat intelligence activities in line with defined Standard Operating Procedures.
• Provide advice on mitigation and escalate to a team leader where appropriate.
• Help to conduct incident response exercises including red teaming and threat-hunting.
• Communicate the results of investigations and risk mitigations to improve the response to new threats and attack vectors.
• Conduct post-incident reviews.
• Identify, analyse, and classify threats, adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), security vulnerabilities in networks, systems, and applications, and mitigate or eliminate their impact.
• Assist in the prioritisation of those vulnerabilities through a risk-based approach.
• Triage intelligence findings, recommend mitigating measures, and support vulnerability management activities by providing advice on ways to improve control mechanisms and reduce risk.
• Define intelligence requirements, methodologies, and tools needed to identify and assess threats.
• Communicate common mitigation strategies and threat trends.
• Continuously seek to identify potential service and process improvements leveraging your knowledge of industry best practices, good judgment, and problem-solving skills to execute security operations and investigations.