Cyber Operations Incident Response Lead

Cyber Operations Incident Response Lead

Embark on a transformative journey as a Cyber Operations Incident Response Lead. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions that protect our digital ecosystem. This role goes beyond reacting to breaches; it’s about preventive risk management, ensuring business continuity, and safeguarding the bank’s reputation. You will monitor and enhance the performance of operational controls, implement robust security measures, and mentor teams in best practices.

By applying lessons learned, you’ll strengthen defenses against future threats while supporting cross‑functional teams through crisis response and strategic decision‑making. Your ability to guide executive strategy and leverage threat intelligence to anticipate and neutralize risks before they escalates will be critical in shaping a resilient cybersecurity posture across the organization.

To be successful as a Cyber Operations Incident Response Lead, you should have:

• Experience mentoring teams in incident triage, containment, and recovery
• Considerable understanding of incident response frameworks, like NIST 800‑61, SANS, and others
• Confirmed past achievements managing global cyber incidents and leading Security Operations Centers
• Deep knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and threat intelligence platforms, including SIM and SAR technologies
• Experience collaborating with law enforcement and external cyber threat‑sharing networks

Other Highly Valued Skills Include:

• Familiarity with cloud and hybrid infrastructure including AWS, Azure, GCP
• Demonstrated ability to manage major incidents and lead crisis communications
• Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CISA, or equivalent
• Ability to mentor and support junior team members

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role is located in Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $180,000
Maximum Salary: $230,000

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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 intrusion prevention and detection systems, to alert, detect and block potential cyber security incidents, and provide a prompt response to restore normal operations with minimized 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 bank’s network.
• Management of cyber security incidents including remediation & driving to closure.