SOC Lead - NHS

Job Description

NHS SOC Lead - Up to £575.00 Per Day - 6 Months - Manchester

Our client in the North West is looking for a SOC Lead to lead and operate the Trust’s SOC capability across monitoring, detection and response

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and optimise SIEM, EDR and security tooling to deliver high-quality visibility and alerting.
• Deliver effective incident response leadership, including major incident coordination and recovery.
• Establish and continuously improve detection use cases and automation (SOAR/playbooks).
• Embed threat in.
• Align SOC activity to organisational risk and vulnerability prioritisation.
• Act as key interface with national cyber services and internal stakeholders.
• Build and lead a high-performing SOC team, including recruitment and capability development.
• Deliver clear SOC performance reporting (KPIs/KRIs) and executive insight.
• Drive continuous SOC maturity improvement aligned to best practice frameworks.