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Senior Incident Response Specialist - Manchester

Hiring Organisation
Circle Group
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£85,000
Senior Incident Response Specialist - Manchester £50-85k DOE Hybrid Manchester (1 day/week with flexibility) Must either hold SC Clearance or be eligible for SC Clearance We are seeking an experienced Incident Response Specialist to deliver high-quality cyber incident response and forensic investigation services across our client's customer and internal environments. In this role, you will lead cyber incident investigations, conduct forensic analysis across endpoint, network, and cloud environments, and work closely with security operations teams to identify, contain, and remediate threats. You will also ...

DFIR Managing Consultant

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Cyber Services and Capabilities Employment Type: Full Time Location: GBR Manchester Hardman Boulevard Role Purpose: To manage and service NCC Group clients within the Incident Response space. The Managing Consultant plays a critical role within the DFIR team of experienced consultants, delivering high‐quality incident response and proactive services to clients. The role involves leading and contributing to detailed technical analysis, managing incident response activities, and ensuring effective communication and coordination throughout an engagement. With a strong focus on technically supporting clients during live incidents, the Managing Consultant is also expected to contribute ...

Senior Security Consultant - Digital Forensics & Incident Response

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
UBDS group is seeking a highly skilled Senior Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) Consultant to lead and support complex cyber incident investigations and response activities. The primary focus of this role is the delivery of DFIR services to external clients, ensuring high-quality, timely … professional incident response and forensic capabilities. In addition, the role will support internal cyber security operations and improvement initiatives as required. This role will work closely with Security Operations Centre (SOC) and Infrastructure Operations Centre (IOC) engineers to identify, contain, and remediate cyber threats, while enhancing both client ...

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Bolton, Greater Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£55,000
Senior Cyber Security Analyst to help strengthen its security posture and safeguard critical systems. This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about incident response and proactive threat management within a dynamic, fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have a positive go-getter attitude, and will have … experience of incident response, using MS security tools and ideally an understanding of Tanium. Key Responsibilities Working with the Head of Information Security to mature the incident response capability Using your understanding of the contemporary threat environment to assist with your vulnerability investigations and response ...

Lead SOC Analyst (L3)

Hiring Organisation
GCS
Location
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
cyber security challenges, and wants to make a real impact within a large-scale enterprise environment. Key Responsibilities Lead and coordinate cyber operations and incident response activities across the organisation. Support the enhancement of cyber containment and response capabilities. Manage and respond to complex cyber security incidents … governance, and security control initiatives. Skills & Experience Required To be successful in this role, you should have: Strong hands-on experience in Cyber Security Incident Response or Cyber Operations. Deep technical expertise in one or more incident response related domains, including: SOC Operations Malware Analysis Endpoint ...

Cyber Security Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£75,000
operations. This is a technical role suited to an experienced analyst with strong engineering instincts, hands-on coding capabilities, and a deep understanding of incident response, detection engineering, and adversary tradecraft. This position includes approximately one week per month of on-call availability for high-priority incident … ideal for someone who has likely grown from an engineering background and can write scripts (Python, Bash) to automate, enhance, and refine detection and response workflows. Experience with Splunk, SIEM operations, cloud endpoints, networks, and detection engineering will be highly advantageous. NOTE: Candidates for this role must be eligible ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer In this role, you’ll support improvements to availability, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, security, incident response, and capacity planning for our products and services You’ll enjoy significant stakeholder interaction, working in collaboration with engineers to ensure a principled approach … ensure services are observable, scalable, and resilient. You’ll also participate in the 24/7 support and on-call rotation, gaining experience in incident response and platform operations. In this role, we’ll expect you to be involved as well in the operation of AWS-based Kubernetes ...

Senior Security Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Richmond Square Consulting Limited
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
experience. This is a senior, hands-on role working across firewalling, on-premise and cloud security, secure infrastructure, network security, workload segmentation, hardening, monitoring, incident response and security architecture. The environment is highly secure and regulated, with a strong focus on enterprise firewalling, Elastic/Elasticsearch, VMware-based … Server environments, Active Directory, Group Policy and endpoint configurations Implementing, auditing and remediating against CIS Benchmarks, STIGs and security hardening standards Supporting vulnerability management, incident response, root cause analysis and remediation planning Embedding security into DevSecOps/CI/CD practices, including automated security testing and policy ...

Senior DFIR Consultant: Lead Cyber Incident Response

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
UBDS Group is looking for a highly skilled Senior Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) Consultant located in Manchester. This role focuses on delivering DFIR services to clients while supporting internal cybersecurity operations. You will lead incident response activities, conduct forensic investigations, and work closely with ...

Senior DFIR Incident Response Lead & Mentor

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Group plc is seeking a DFIR Managing Consultant to lead incident response engagements and manage a team of DFIR consultants. The role requires extensive experience in incident response and digital forensics, providing critical guidance during complex situations. Key responsibilities include coordinating teams, delivering thorough investigations ...

Senior DFIR Incident Response Lead & Mentor

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Group is seeking a DFIR Managing Consultant in Manchester to lead incident response engagements. The role involves managing a team of skilled consultants, providing hands-on support during cyber incidents, and ensuring effective communication. Candidates should have extensive experience in incident response and digital forensics, strong ...

Information security analyst apprentice

Hiring Organisation
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
Location
Number One Riverside, Smith Street, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Higher Apprenticeship
Salary
£25,583 a year
Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, etc.) and other monitoring tools to identify and respond to potential data loss or unauthorised data sharing Incident Triage & Response: Perform timely triage of security alerts to determine impact and urgency, investigating incidents using available tools and data Lead initial incident response actions (containment, remediation, communication) for confirmed security incidents, following established escalation procedures Ensuring that all incidents are promptly escalated to senior leadership or external partners, as appropriate Threat Analysis & Intelligence Integration: Analyse malicious activities to determine root cause and attack vectors by mapping observed attacker actions ...

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Hiring Organisation
EG Group
Location
Horwich, Greater Manchester, UK
relax and recharge Free secure on-site parking Dress Down Fridays Free VDU eye test What you’ll be doing: Leading the investigation and response to security incidents, acting as the escalation point for complex or high-severity events. Monitoring and optimising security tooling, including SIEM and endpoint protection … platforms, to improve detection and response capabilities. Conducting threat hunting, root cause analysis, and forensic investigations to identify risks and control weaknesses. Developing and maintaining incident response processes, playbooks, and detection rules aligned to best practice frameworks. Translating threat intelligence into actionable controls to strengthen detection ...

PCI DSS QSA (Senior Consultant)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
mapping Risk advisory and assurance Business resilience Data privacy and GDPR ISO 27001 assessments Supply chain assurance PCI 3DS, PCI P2PE, PCI SSF audits Incident response readiness and planning Card production and PIN audits Cyber maturity assessments Incident response planning Gold/Silver/Bronze tabletops ...

Lead Cyber Security Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Harvey Nash
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£95,000
leading global financial institution seeking a Lead Cyber Operations Analyst to join their Cyber Security team. This role will focus on leading cyber incident response activities, managing security monitoring capabilities, driving threat detection and containment, and supporting the bank's wider cyber defence strategy. Key Requirements: * Strong experience … within Cyber Operations, SOC or Incident Response environments * Hands-on expertise with SIEM technologies (Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar etc.) * Knowledge of threat detection, malware analysis, endpoint, network or cloud security * Scripting experience (Python, PowerShell or similar) * Strong understanding of cyber risk, controls and security governance * Excellent stakeholder management ...

Lead Cyber Operations Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Harvey Nash
Location
Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
working with a big banking client based in the Knutsford, and they’re looking for a Lead Cyber Operations Analyst with strong experience in Incident response to join their team. The ideal candidate: Hands on expertise with incident response and managing cyber security incidents. Experience ...

Privacy Operations Analyst

Hiring Organisation
DGH Recruitment
Location
North West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
firm's technology environment which includes Microsoft Defender & Sentinel. Key Responsibilities: * Monitor security event identification via the third-party security operations service. * Coordinate incident response activities including containment, evidence collection, documentation, and recovery support. * Contribute to threat hunting activities using KQL queries and intelligence-led techniques. * Support … maintain and tune Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, and Purview policies, analytics rules, alerts, and workflows. * Support the development, testing, and maintenance of automated playbooks and response actions (e.g., Logic Apps). * Verifying compliance with expected practice in the operation of technology services, including security baseline and access right reviews. * Support ...

SRE Managing Consultant - Cloud Operating Model

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Model & Ways of Working : Define and implement SRE ways of working and engagement patterns, aligning reliability practices with existing ITSM/ITIL processes (e.g., incident, problem, release and change) and modern engineering delivery. Reliability Measures (SLIs/SLOs) & Error Budgets : Establish service measures and targets (SLIs/SLOs … Insight: Shape observability approaches (metrics/logs/traces) and operational monitoring models that make reliability risks visible and actionable, improving operational decision‐making. Incident Excellence & Continuous Learning: Design incident analysis and improvement loops, including practical approaches that strengthen incident response and drive learning through post ...

Senior Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Accenture
Location
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
/SLOs. You’ll help teams implement pragmatic observability—logging, metrics, and distributed tracing—with actionable alerting, and you’ll contribute to (or lead) incident response and post-incident reviews that drive learning and measurable improvements. Job qualifications We are looking for experience in the following skills … Dynatrace ( or similar tools) , including alerting, dashboards, and root-cause analysis. Exposure to AIOps practices , leveraging automation and intelligence for proactive issue detection and incident reduction. Experience supporting production platforms , including incident management, problem management, and continuous improvement. Ability to mentor junior engineers , influence technical standards ...

Senior Information Security Analyst

Hiring Organisation
AJ Bell
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
monitoring, analysing and responding to security threats, while driving continuous improvement across our security operations capability. You’ll play a key role in incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management and ensuring effective use of our security tools and processes to reduce risk across the technology estate. Key responsibilities ...

Cyber Security & Compliance Administrator

Hiring Organisation
Ipsum
Location
North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
guidelines. Coordinate risk assessments, ensuring mitigation actions are documented, tracked and successfully implemented. Maintain accurate documentation and evidence to support all compliance activities. Support incident response processes and contribute to post incident reviews from a compliance standpoint. Stay informed on evolving cybersecurity regulations, frameworks and best practice. ...

IT Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£400 - £485 per day
systematic approach to diagnosing complex technical issues Strong analytical skills to interpret data, identify patterns, and draw actionable conclusions Be involved in investigating incident response activities and postmortem analyses using Dynatrace, Grafana or provide insights. Has the ability to troubleshoot and resolve data quality issues on time, ensuring … using Cloud solutions such as Azure & AWS and containerized environments (Kubernetes, OpenShift) to implement cloud-native monitoring Have good knowledge of ITSM/incident management tools integration. Interacts with and influences colleagues and has working level contact with customers Applies methodical approach to issue definition and resolution Demonstrates effective ...

Cyber Security Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Erin Associates
Location
Altrincham, Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£55,000
growing cyber security team based in Altrincham, South Manchester. You will play a key role in protecting critical systems, improving security posture, and supporting incident response across a modern hybrid IT environment. This is a hands-on technical role where youll work closely with infrastructure, cloud … respond to security alerts across SIEM and EDR platforms Manage and tune security tools including firewalls, WAFs, and endpoint protection Investigate and support response to security incidents Perform vulnerability assessments and remediation tracking Support implementation of security controls across cloud and on-prem environments Contribute to security policies, standards ...

Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Security Check (SC) clearance Experience responding to RFPs and shaping solutions for multi-service opportunities. Knowledge of managed security services (e.g., SOC, MDR) and incident response readiness. Exposure to regulated sectors (e.g. Financial Services, Energy, Critical Infrastructure). Familiarity with privacy and compliance frameworks (e.g. GDPR). ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Candour
Location
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
/CD pipelines with blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments, including automated, zero-downtime database releases. Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and automated incident workflows with clear reporting. Strengthen cloud security posture (IAM, secrets, vulnerability scanning) and embed DevSecOps practices while maintaining PCI-DSS compliance. Drive reliability through SLIs …/SLOs, incident response, disaster recovery testing, and capacity planning for peak events. Optimise performance and cost across hybrid environments through right-sizing, forecasting, and resource governance. Apply AI-driven tooling for anomaly detection, operational optimisation, and compliance automation. Collaborate cross-functionally, maintain documentation, and promote DevOps best ...