Senior Manager Cybersecurity Incident Response

Salary: £45,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience progressing from hands-on technical incident response into leadership, including leading incident response teams and investigators through diverse, complex cyber investigations.
• Experience leading major cyber incidents, including incident command, stakeholder coordination, technical investigation, communications and post-incident follow-up.
• In-depth knowledge of the cyber security threat landscape and experience bringing it to bear in a tailored response to a major incident.
• Solid grasp of CDO and Incident Response processes and experience with relevant tools such as EDR, SIEM, IR management, forensics and case management platforms.
• BSc or higher in a relevant subject such as Computer Forensics, digital investigation, or computer science.
• Applicable professional qualification such as SANS, CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, GCFE, GREM, EnCE, or Incident Response (CSIRT/CERT) is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Lead our global cybersecurity incident response function, ensuring the team has the people, processes and capabilities needed to respond effectively across regions.
• Lead high-priority and complex security incidents in partnership with partners across the business.
• Facilitate major incident briefings, direct response activities, and deliver clear communications for technical teams, senior stakeholders and our leadership.
• Coordinate larger investigations with internal partners, contracted security providers and/or law enforcement.
• Grow and develop our Incident Response team through coaching, training, skills development and continuous improvement.
• Build and maintain incident response runbooks, playbooks and operating procedures to support consistent, high-quality response.
• Support incident readiness through planning, exercises and scenario-based testing.
• Lead post-incident reviews, including root cause analysis, lessons learned and control improvements.
• Provide Incident Response insight to Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, Exposure Management and other Cyber Defence Operations capabilities.

Technologies:

• ARM
• Support
• Security

More:

We are Arm, and we are seeking a passionate, experienced Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Incident Response to join our growing Cyber Defence Operations team within our Enterprise Security function. This role will lead our global incident response team across the US, UK and India, acting as a senior technical and operational leader for major cyber incidents. Our Cyber Defence Operations team enables us to deliver scalable, defendable security services that protect our customer and partner data and help us succeed in a competitive industry. We offer hybrid working designed to support high performance and personal wellbeing, and we are committed to equal opportunities and an environment of mutual respect. If you need an accommodation during the recruitment process, we can support you confidentially.

last updated 36 week of 2026