Security Manager

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Current Developed Vetting (DV) clearance is essential.
• Significant experience in operational command, duty management, major incident management or service operations.
• Experience coordinating multiple teams during complex or high-impact incidents.
• Strong understanding of SOC, NOC, infrastructure and IT service management environments.
• Experience operating in a 24/7 environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including the ability to brief senior leadership.
• Strong decision-making and prioritisation skills under pressure.
• Experience managing escalations and coordinating third-party suppliers.
• Ability to maintain an accurate operational picture across multiple concurrent issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience developing operational procedures, runbooks and escalation processes.
• A calm, authoritative and structured approach during significant incidents.
• Experience in a 24/7 command centre, operations centre, major incident environment, government/defence environment or similarly critical operational setting is preferred.
• Candidates may come from duty manager, command centre, major incident, service operations, operations, watch officer, incident commander, operations controller, service delivery or operational resilience backgrounds.
• Experience within government, defence, national security, telecommunications, critical infrastructure or other highly regulated environments would be particularly valuable.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the senior operational authority for the Command Centre during assigned shifts.
• Maintain a clear Common Operating Picture across cyber, network, infrastructure, service management and physical security operations.
• Coordinate the response to significant incidents, service disruptions, emerging risks and operational issues.
• Set operational priorities and ensure the appropriate specialist teams are engaged.
• Manage escalations across multiple technical and operational teams and third-party suppliers.
• Provide clear, concise and authoritative operational updates to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Produce and deliver operational briefings covering significant incidents, service impacts, emerging risks and relevant overnight or weekend activity.
• Engage confidently with senior stakeholders and provide appropriate challenge where required.
• Bring in technical specialists when deeper technical expertise is required rather than attempting to resolve technical issues directly.
• Take operational ownership of the Command Centres AV and command-wall capability, including SOC, NOC and other operational feeds.
• Help develop appropriate screen layouts, operational dashboards and the overall Common Operating Picture.
• Support the development of Command Centre runbooks, escalation procedures, reporting, operating processes and ways of working.
• Contribute to the transition towards a full 24/7 operational model.
• Support training and knowledge transfer for Command Centre personnel.
• Ensure effective handovers between shifts and maintain strong operational continuity.

Technologies:

• Incident Management
• Support
• Network
• Security

More:

We are hiring an experienced DV Cleared Security Manager to join a high-profile government Command Centre capability based at Hanslope Park, Milton Keynes, working onsite on a 3-year contract at a day rate of £600-£650 inside IR35. This senior operational role sits across Cyber/SOC, NOC, infrastructure, service management and physical security, providing command and control across multiple specialist teams rather than hands-on technical engineering. We operate in a critical, high-pressure environment where strong stakeholder engagement, clear operational leadership and effective incident coordination are essential, and current DV clearance is required.

last updated 35 week of 2026