Senior Response Manager – Home Office Cyber Security Threat Intelligence

Overview

As a Senior Response Manager in Cyber Threat Intelligence, you will lead intelligence-driven threat analysis and incident response efforts to reduce risk across Home Office digital services. You will join a specialist team to mature threat intel capabilities, guide complex responses, and drive strategic initiatives that strengthen defences against evolving threats. You collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate insights into concrete security improvements. This role offers impactful work at scale within a supportive, development-focused culture.

Pay / Benefits

• Civil Service Pension with employer contribution
• 25 days annual leave plus holidays
• 8 public holidays plus an additional privilege day
• Hybrid working options (minimum 60% in office)

Responsibilities

• Conduct threat intelligence activities following defined SOPs
• Advise on mitigations and escalate to team lead when needed
• Facilitate incident response exercises including red teaming and threat-hunting
• Communicate investigation findings and risk mitigations to diverse audiences
• Perform post-incident reviews to capture lessons
• Identify and classify threats, adversary TTPs, and vulnerabilities; assess and mitigate impact
• Prioritise vulnerabilities using risk-based approaches and support vulnerability management
• Define intelligence requirements and tools for threat identification and assessment
• Share mitigations and threat trends; seek service/process improvements across security operations

Key requirements

• Threat intelligence analysis, collection and investigations in a SOC environment
• Ability to communicate complex threat intel to technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with threat analysis models/frameworks (STIX, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model)
• Strong partnership and stakeholder engagement across technical teams and suppliers
• Experience leading or managing a team in a technical environment
• Proficiency with SIEM and Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs)
• Knowledge of cyber security risk and control frameworks (NIST, ISO27001, Cyber Essentials, NCSC)

• Strong communication and influencing abilities
• Collaborative mindset and cross-functional teamwork
• Problem-solving and sound judgment
• SIEM
• Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs)
• Threat modeling and risk assessment

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