Security Operations Team Lead

Companyinteractive investor

LocationManchester Area, United Kingdom

Posted At3/6/2026

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IT operations technicians

Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled

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£41,700 (£21.38 per hour)

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Description

Title: Security Operations Team Lead

Location: Hybrid – Manchester / Leeds 3 days on site per week, 2 days remote

Salary: Up to £75,000

Who we are:

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

PURPOSE OF ROLE:

We are recruiting for a Security Operations Team Lead to join the Information Security team to support our continued growth. You will lead the SecOp’s team and help maintain and protect our key business assets from threats and risks by monitoring, detecting, analysing, and responding to security incidents.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead the internal ii Security Operations Team (SecOps) in day-to-day activities overseeing the management, strategy, and direction of our SIEM solution, EDR solutions and security incident management.
Monitor the security landscape, collate reports, evaluate trends and threats against our security posture, and coordinate remediation where required
Management of our external Security Operations Centre (SOC) and oversight of our SIEM solution.
Responsible for the security incident process owning incident response, investigations, and lessons learnt.
Analyse security systems / reports to identify trends and drive secure behaviours throughout the business.
Lead on a threat intelligence, detection, and response programme of work.
Lead the SecOps team on proactively identifying, Investigating, and hunting potential attacks and security risks on networks and systems using various platform dashboards and threat feeds.
Lead the team on analysis of security events as detected by security controls.
Management of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) - overall ownership and maintenance of agents, creation of exception rules, and reacting to alerts.

Play a lead role in coordinating and directing team efforts during incidents and ensuring prompt escalation

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

5 + years in a cyber security role.
Degree in IT / Cyber preferred or industry recognised qualification.
5+ years Knowledge and use of SIEM tooling i.e. Google Chronicle etc.
Ability to lead a SecOp’s team and follow a defined strategy.
A deep understanding of technical and network security requirements.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
Ability to proactively identify control weakness and vulnerabilities
Ability to decipher different types of malware and a knowledge of how to deal with it.
Knowledge and use of SIEM tooling i.e. Google Chronicle.
Experience in using the MITRE ATT&CK Framework to understand adversary actions and resulting mitigation techniques.
Excellent attention to detail.
Ability to remain calm under pressure and clearly communicate to all levels of management.
Experience in understanding Firewalls and IDS/IPS and Windows Security Event Logs.
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy to comprehend business terms

Ability to quickly understand existing infrastructure, network security principles, data flow and security architectures.

Knowledge of the fundamentals of cloud infrastructure as well as traditional technologies.

BENEFITS:

Group Personal Pension Plan – 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution
Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
Private Medical Insurance – Provided by Bupa
25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays
Staff Discounts on our investment products
Personal & Well-being Fund – Supporting your physical and mental wellness
Retail Discounts – Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers
Voluntary Flexible Benefits – Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle

Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful.

interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation—whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive.