Senior Cyber Operations Test Manager - AVP

Additional Job Description

Join us at Barclays as a Cyber Operations Test Manager, where you’ll play a key role in strengthening our cyber containment capabilities and supporting our transition to a more advanced Cyber Operations model. In this role, you’ll regularly test and evidence our containment capability continue to work. This includes providing evidence for the self‑assessment and the protection for our organisation against an evolving threat landscape.

To be successful as a Cyber Operations Test manager, you should have experience with:

• Cyber Containment & Incident Response
• Knowledge of cyber attack lifecycle, ransomware, malware, and threat containment strategies.
• Ability to coordinate endpoint isolation, network segmentation, account restrictions, and other containment controls during security incidents.
• Experience working with CSOC, IR, Threat Hunting, and Infrastructure teams during active incidents
• Test Management & Exercise Delivery
• Planning and execution of cyber recovery, cyber resilience, tabletop, and technical containment exercises.
• Defining test objectives, success criteria, scenarios, and reporting outcomes.
• Managing defect tracking, lessons learned, remediation activities, and continuous improvement programmes.

Some other high valued skills include:

• Coordinating across Technology, Security, Business, and Third‑Party teams.
• Producing executive‑ready reports, risk assessments, and decision papers.
• Driving governance, documentation, audit evidence, and regulatory readiness while ensuring testing and containment activities align with business objectives.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role is based in Knutsford.

To monitor the performance of operational controls, implement and manage security controls and consider lessons learnt in order to protect the bank from potential cyber‑attacks and respond to threats.

• Management of security monitoring systems, including intrusive prevention and detection systems, to alert, detect and block potential cyber security incidents, and provide a prompt response to restore normal operations with minimised system damage.
• Identification of emerging cyber security threats, attack techniques and technologies to detect/prevent incidents, and collaborate with networks and conferences to gain industry knowledge and expertise.
• Management and analysis of security information and event management systems to collect, correlate and analyse security logs, events and alerts/potential threats.
• Triage of data loss prevention alerts to identify and prevent sensitive data for being exfiltrated from the banks network.
• Management of cyber security incidents including remediation & driving to closure.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of…