Job Title: SOC Lead
City: Norwich
State/Province: Norfolk
Posting Start Date: 8/14/26
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.
SOC Manager / Security Operations Manager
York/Bristol/London
Job Summary
The SOC Manager is responsible for the overall delivery, governance, and continuous improvement of Security Operations Centre (SOC) services across enterprise environments. The role combines technical leadership, people management, cyber defence strategy, stakeholder engagement, service delivery, and business growth responsibilities.
The position leads security monitoring, incident response, security tooling, compliance initiatives, and operational resilience programmes while ensuring alignment with business and customer objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Security Operations & Incident Management
Own incident response, escalation management, and major security incident coordination.
Drive continuous improvement of detection and response capabilities.
Ensure SLA, KPI, and service commitments are consistently achieved.
Security Engineering & Technology Leadership
Provide strategic oversight for SIEM, EDR, DLP, Email Security, Cloud Security, and Security Validation platforms.
Lead onboarding of new log sources and security technologies.
Support implementation and optimisation of security controls and monitoring capabilities.
Stakeholder & Customer Management
Serve as the primary security operations contact for senior customer stakeholders.
Conduct regular service reviews, governance meetings, and executive reporting.
Translate technical risks into business-focused recommendations.
Maintain strong relationships with business, technology, risk, and audit teams.
Leadership & People Management
Lead, mentor, and develop SOC analysts and security engineers.
Manage performance, capability development, and succession planning.
Promote a high-performance and collaborative team culture.
Drive certification and technical upskilling initiatives across the team.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Ensure compliance with audit, regulatory, and security policy requirements.
Support internal and external audits through evidence collection and control validation.
Track risks, actions, and remediation activities through governance forums.
Drive security maturity improvement programmes.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical
SIEM Platforms (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel)
EDR/XDR (CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender)
Email Security (Proofpoint)
DLP Technologies (Proofpoint, Zscaler)
Cloud Security (AWS, Wiz, Defender for Cloud)
BAS Platforms (SafeBreach)
Threat Hunting & Detection Engineering
Incident Response & Security Operations
Leadership
Team leadership and people development
Service delivery management
Executive stakeholder engagement
Vendor and customer management
Budget and commercial awareness
Security governance and reporting
Preferred Qualifications
Experience managing enterprise SOC services
Experience leading security transformation and maturity initiatives
Strong understanding of NIST CSF, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Defence frameworks
Role Alignment
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Mandatory Skills: Security Log Monitoring .
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