Cyber Security Operations Lead

The Abcam Global Cyber Security function has overall responsibility for security operations, risk and assurance, strategic oversight, and management of the Abcam information security management system in alignment with wider Danaher Corporate information security strategy.

As a Security Operations Lead, you will join the Abcam Digital Cyber Security team in a highly hands-on operational role reporting into the Director of Cybersecurity.

The Security Operations Lead will work in close relationship with technology teams across Abcam and inter-departmentally and internationally to timely review and respond to security events escalated from L1 and L2 SOC, lead significant security events response, advise on vulnerability remediation, and provide first line of security advisory to Abcam users and technology units.

The Security Operations Lead is expected to coordinate activities across APAC, EMEA, and the US and ensure that operational SLAs are established and met as well as KPIs are established and reported as required. The position holder will play a pivotal role in establishing SLAs and KPIs as well as streamlining the operating model between Danaher Corporate security and Abcam operational teams.

The position is expected to collaborate closely with Danaher Security TMC and Engineering teams and ensure security tooling has adequate coverage, detection, and correlation rules for the Abcam environment are continuously optimized and adequately reporting.

The post holder will also work closely and support the Abcam Information Security Lead to ensure governance, risk, and compliance requirements are considered and met.

A successful candidate in this role will demonstrate strong communications and team leadership skills, critical thinking, exemplary time management, ability to work on own initiative, and maintain composure and solid judgment under pressure and in stressful situations.

What you are to be responsible for:

1. Lead the security monitoring and incident response activities globally and ensure operational continuity across geographies.
2. Work collaboratively with internal and external to Abcam cross-functional SOC and engineering teams to intake, validate, operationalize security information and continuously improve the Abcam security operations.
3. Ensure Security operations SoPs and incident response process and procedures are defined and maintained.
4. Ensure SLAs & KPIs are defined, and reporting established; develop quality reporting for various governance forums.
5. Recommend and advise on security controls improvements and vulnerability remediation.
6. Help with delivery of Abcam specific and Danaher Corporate led security initiatives as needed.
7. Stay up to date with the current security trends, threat actors, and their TTPs.
8. Participate in project work on PoCing and implementation of new security solutions.

• Strong incident response skills.
• Strong communications and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritize and execute in a methodical and disciplined manner and set expectations with less senior team members.
• Ability to influence technical teams and business units and collaborate to reduce attack surface.
• Strong time management and ability to work on own initiative to drive improvement.
• Hands-on experience with various security tooling (XDR, DLP, Firewalls, SIEM, SOAR).
• Functional use with vulnerability management and cloud posture management solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of common threats including but not limited to malware, phishing, ransomware, DDOS, web & mobile application security risks.
• Working knowledge with patching and vulnerability management practices.
• Good working knowledge of various operating systems and network protocols.

• Experience reviewing and coordinating SOC activities in a similar role is highly desirable.
• Relevant industry qualifications (SANS, ISC2, ISACA) are desirable.

Join our winning team today. Together, we'll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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