Head of Security Operations

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. 

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. 

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.  

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.  

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day. 

We're looking for an experienced Head of Security Operations to join our L&G CISO team.

This is a highly varied role where you'll lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the Security Operations Centre (SOC); this includes triaging the latest threat intelligence, ensuring Incidents are responded to effectively and setting the detection and response strategy.  

If you're looking for an exciting and varied role where you'll be supported in your ongoing professional development and get to lead a team of highly motivated and dedicated security professionals, then this could be the ideal next move for you!

What you’ll be doing:

• Driving the development of Threat Intelligence services, ensuring Strategic, Tactical and Operational Threat Intelligence is collated and consumed effectively to help ensure Legal & General’s key assets are protected
• Ensuring there is effective management of incident response activities by advising on incident identification, assessment, classification, escalation, investigation, mitigation, monitoring and reporting to help ensure Legal and General’s cyber incidents are managed in a timely and effectively manner to limit impact
• Leading, motivating and developing employees at all levels to maintain a high performing team culture
• Acting as the primary interface between Legal and General and the SOC service providers and ensuring they meet contractually defined Service Level Agreements; by monitoring process adherence and identifying continuous improvement activities needed to achieve operational performance and risk management objectives related to the SOC
• Ensuring the Security Operation strategy and roadmaps are fit for the future across Data Security, Threat Intelligence, Detection and Response and Cybercrime activities
• Defining and collecting metrics / KPIs and periodically reporting to leadership on SOC events / incidents and overall effectiveness of the security operations programme to help ensure SOC metrics are in line with Legal & General’s risk appetite

Who we’re looking for:

• Previous experience in running a high performing Security Operations team ideally in a regulated environment
• Extensive knowledge and experience in utilising various security operations tools, technologies and processes including SIEM, MITRE and XDR/EDR
• Previous experience of effective utilisation of Threat Intelligence within Security Operations
• Experience of developing, writing and implementing effective strategies within Security Operations
• You should also have experience in leading security operational meetings with key internal and external stakeholders and managing relationship with service providers
• Experience in global delivery operations support model (e.g. 24-7 / 16-8)
• Any Information Security and/or Information Technology industry certifications (CISSP, CISM or equivalent) would be a huge plus

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.