Cyber Security Operation Product Lead

Job Title: Cyber Security Operation Product Lead

Job Type: Contract
· Inside IR35

Location: Reading, UK — Hybrid (3 days a week)

Duration: 6 months

We’re looking for a Cyber Security Operation Product Lead who will play a crucial role in driving the vision, strategy, and delivery of security operations products and capabilities that protect the organization’s digital assets. This role bridges technical expertise with product management, ensuring that security tools, platforms, and processes meet evolving threat landscapes and business needs.

• Provide technical oversight and assurance of operational security teams activities and services. Review technical outcomes within security operations areas for adherence to best practices and class leading service delivery.
• Oversight and scrutiny of security team incident and crises response activities.
• Incident and crises coordination and management, including creating reports for senior business and client leadership.
• Triage, prioritize, track and report on in-life service demand against impact assessments and/or each client’s security service allocation in partnership with security engagement team and security delivery teams.
• Manage onboarding of new security service requests from clients working closely with security teams, including security engagement.
• Optimize the delivery of established security services and manage any changes to those services.
• Support allocation of service requests to appropriate security delivery teams.
• Manage in-life security services queue and backlog in partnership with security engagement, security teams.
• Monitor service delivery performance and quality, including tracking service delivery against KPIs.
• Report on demand trends and support capacity planning based on demand analysis.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• CISSP
• CEH
• OSCP
• Any relevant red team or penetration testing certifications
• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on red team activities.

• Strong knowledge of network protocols, operating systems, and security tools.
• Experience with penetration testing tools (e.g., Metasploit, Burp Suite, Nmap, Core Impact).
• Familiarity with threat modeling and risk assessment methodologies.
• Ability to think like an adversary and anticipate attack vectors.