Head of Security Operations, London

Location: London (2-3 days p/w in office)

Salary: up to £120,000 fixed salary + 10-20% bonus + benefits

Reporting Line: CISO

Lawrence Harvey are partnered with a digitally focused, fast-growing finacial services organisation that are backed by a profitable and well-capitalised private equity firm.

They are on the lookout for someone who wants to build and scale a modern security operations capability within a fast-growing organisation. This is a rare opportunity to shape the function from the ground up in a complex brownfield environment, driving security maturity, operational resilience, and detection and response capabilities across the business.

You'll be joining a mutli-cloud technology environment, reporting directly to the Information Security Lead, whilst working within a supportive and collaborative environment full of Security experts.

What you'll be doing:

• Build and lead the Security Operations function from scratch, including people, processes, governance, and technology
• Develop the SOC operating model across monitoring, incident response, threat detection, vulnerability management, and operational security
• Drive security transformation within a brownfield environment containing legacy infrastructure, cloud platforms, and hybrid estates
• Establish and mature SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, threat intelligence, and logging capabilities
• Acting as an escalation point for security incidents
• Optimising SOC tooling, workflows and detection rules
• Replacing or redesigning ineffective processes
• Improving automation and reducing false positives

What you'll need:

• Proven experience leading a Security Operations function, preferably within a Financial Services offering but this isn't a deal-breaker
• Excellent understanding of e.g Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar, EDR and Incident Response tooling
• Experienced in improving processes, rather than simply maintaining them
• Strong knowledge of regulatory expectations/audit frameworks
• Excellent stakeholder manahement and communication skills

Apply using the link or send an updated resume to