Information security Operations Managaer at EIT Pathogena

Oxford, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

20 Jun, 26

Salary

90000.0

Posted On

22 Mar, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, Patching Coordination, Security Tooling, Policy Implementation, ISO 27001:2022, SIEM, EDR, IAM, HPC Environments, Team Management, Risk Communication, Change Management

Industry

Research Services

Description

Join us at EIT: At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture Climate Change & Managing CO₂ Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. Your Role: As EIT continues to scale its research programmes, digital platforms, and scientific infrastructure, we are seeking an experienced Information Security Operations Manager to protect our people, data, and research environments. This is a hands‑on leadership role that blends operational security management, incident response, detection engineering, and continuous improvement. You will work closely with IT, research computing, data governance, and legal teams to ensure that security enable, rather than restricts, world-class scientific innovation. You will be a calm, decisive presence during incidents and a trusted partner across the organisation, ensuring that security controls are robust, resilient, and aligned to EIT’s mission. Your Responsibilities: Security Operations & Monitoring Leading and managing EIT’s security operations function, including monitoring, detection, response, and recovery. Owning and continuously improving incident response processes, playbooks, and post‑incident reviews. Overseeing vulnerability management, patching coordination, and the effectiveness of security tooling. Ensuring operational security controls are well‑defined, documented, and consistently applied. Managing security operations staff and external service providers. Policy, Governance & Compliance Implementing and enforcing security policies, standards, and procedures. Supporting compliance with relevant frameworks (including ISO 27001:2022). Maintaining security evidence, audit materials, and regulatory documentation. Technology & Infrastructure Overseeing SIEM, EDR, IAM, vulnerability scanning, and other security technologies. Ensuring secure operation of cloud, on‑premise, hybrid, and HPC research environments. Collaborating with IT and infrastructure teams on secure architecture and change management. Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience: Experience managing teams or leading operational security functions. Demonstrated ability to communicate technical risk clearly to varied audiences. Calm, clear leadership during security incidents. Familiarity with ISO 27001:2022 and security governance. Desirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience: Experience in research‑intensive, scientific, or academic environments. Knowledge of high‑performance computing (HPC) or large‑scale data platforms. Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GIAC). Experience coordinating physical and cyber security operations. Our Benefits: Salary: £75,000 - £90,000 (dependent on experience) + travel allowance + bonus Enhanced holiday + options to buy additional days Pension Life Assurance Income Protection Private Medical Insurance Hospital Cash Plan Therapy Services Perk Box Electric Car Scheme Childcare benefit Working Together – What It Involves: You must have the right to work permanently in the UK and live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate).

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Responsibilities

The manager will lead and manage the security operations function, encompassing monitoring, detection, response, and recovery, while continuously improving incident response processes and overseeing vulnerability management. This role also involves implementing and enforcing security policies, standards, and procedures, and overseeing key security technologies across various research environments.