Cyber Security Ops. Manager

Why this job matters

The Cyber Security Ops. Manager manages teams in the execution of security solutions, manages daily global operations delivering regular risk reporting, coordinates compliance review activities, and identifies operational improvements, organisational vulnerabilities and risks.

What you’ll be doing

1. Manages teams in activities around incident response, security monitoring, threat hunting, security analytics and reporting.
2. Leads employees, vendors, consultants, and third-party service providers to ensure that baseline information security configurations are defined for products deployed across all technology platforms.
3. Contributes to crucial relationships across the BT Group delivering efficient and consistent security operations services through continuous improvement opportunities creating defense lines that address growing business needs and a rapidly evolving security and threat landscape.
4. Ensures visibility on issues and gaps resulting from the security monitoring activities and wider capabilities to suggest innovative and faster ways in addressing incident response.
5. Applies analytics to provide insight to other security leaders in order to enhance policies and processes related to risk management, security programme management, and security governance.
6. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in security operations.
7. Coaches talent, and manages others, to develop capabilities and ensure performance through upskilling, development and recruitment.
8. Implements ways to improve working processes within the area of Security Operations.
9. Coordinates collaborations with security engineering and vulnerability teams to ensure security tooling is providing operations functions with appropriate visibility to detect and respond to security events as well as building processes to better inform on indicators of compromise.
10. Manages the development of baseline reporting metrics to effectively measure the health of the security operations domain and provide executive-level reporting of events, incidents, and trends.
11. Maintains security procedures for products, applications, and platforms, and act as a go-to technical resource for risky or unusual security or compliance matters.
12. Leads the delivery of internal and external communications, ensuring the cadence and content of communications is appropriate and provides exposure of the security function.

The skills you’ll need

Escalation ManagementLegal & Regulatory Environment and ComplianceChange ManagementService Level Agreement ManagementStakeholder ManagementConfiguration ManagementAccess ControlData AnalysisPolicy DesignIntrusion Detection & AnalysisTalent ManagementCustomer Relationship ManagementDecision MakingThreat HuntingGrowth MindsetSecurity AssessmentStandards DesignPerformance ManagementInclusive LeadershipIncident Management

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. 

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.  

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

 

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.