Security Operations Engineering Manager

Protect what matters. Help build the future of secure digital banking.

Join us as a Security Operations Engineering Manager and play an important role in protecting our customers, colleagues and technology. At Cynergy Bank, we’re building the future of banking through the combination of human relationships and innovative technology. As our digital capabilities continue to evolve, cyber security is fundamental to maintaining trust and supporting our award-winning Human Digital Banking model.

This is an opportunity to help shape our cyber incident response capability, strengthen our security operations and contribute to the resilience of our cloud-first banking platform against an evolving cyber threat landscape.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Information Security team in a role that combines hands-on cyber security expertise with strategic oversight across incident response, threat detection, cloud security and technical assurance.

Working across cloud and on-premise environments, you’ll identify and investigate emerging threats, assess technologies and architectures from a security perspective, and continually improve our defensive capabilities. You’ll work closely with technology teams, architects, cloud providers and senior stakeholders, helping to influence security decisions across the organisation and supporting the future direction of cyber security at Cynergy Bank.

If you enjoy solving complex security challenges, working collaboratively across technical teams and continually improving cyber resilience in a fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you.

You’ll enjoy hybrid working, spending 3 days each week in our Central London office and 2 days working remotely.

At Cynergy Bank, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Make an impact by coordinating and continually improving our cyber incident response capability across a modern digital banking environment.
• Help shape our future by contributing to cyber security strategy, detection capabilities and security controls across cloud, infrastructure, applications and data.
• Work with modern technologies, developing your expertise across cloud security, SIEM, XDR, Dev Sec Ops  and security automation.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues across Information Security, Technology, Architecture and Engineering.
• Continue to grow in a culture that values curiosity, innovation, continuous learning and professional development.
• Enjoy flexibility, with hybrid working and our Dress for Your Day approach, supporting work-life balance.

You’ll contribute by:

• Coordinating the response to cyber security incidents, supporting effective containment, recovery and communication.
• Conducting proactive threat hunting and investigating suspicious activity across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Monitoring and analysing security events using SIEM, XDR and cloud-native security technologies.
• Supporting the ongoing development of detection capabilities, alerting and incident response playbooks.
• Reviewing technical solutions, architecture and technology changes to help ensure security is considered by design.
• Assessing cloud security controls and supporting alignment with industry good practice and regulatory expectations.
• Supporting vulnerability management, penetration testing and remediation activities.
• Working alongside developers and engineers to embed security throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Conducting root cause analysis and helping ensure lessons learned drive continual improvement.
• Producing reporting and insights into cyber threats, incidents and control effectiveness.
• Supporting cyber resilience, disaster recovery testing and business continuity planning.
• Delivering cyber exercises and incident simulations that strengthen organisational preparedness.

You’ll be successful in this role if you have experience of many of the following:

• Cyber Security, Security Operations, Incident Response or Threat Detection within a regulated or complex technology environment.
• Responding to cyber security incidents and investigating security events.
• Cloud security across…