Security Automation Manager
- Source: Workday
- London Stock Exchange
- On-site
- London
- Full-Time
- Senior
Job Description
- As Manager, Security Automation, you’ll be a core member of the LSEG Cyber Security Operations team. You’ll lead and set the direction for the Cyber Security Automation team which delivers across a number of areas:
- Automation - Lead the design and delivery of security automation capabilities, being responsible for alert ingestion, enrichment, and automated response workflows that drive efficient, consistent handling of security alerts
- Case Management - Own and evolve the security case management platform, ensuring effective support for Security Operations and Security Fusion Centre teams while driving process improvements, workflow optimisation, and service excellence
- DevSecOps - Manage the infrastructure and engineering practices that underpin automation, forensics, and threat intelligence platforms, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable operations with all configurations and content managed through Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps principles
- AI - Drive the adoption of emerging AI capabilities across security operations, leveraging machine learning, generative AI, agentic workflows, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to enhance analysis, automate decision-making, and accelerate security response
- As the successful candidate, you will combine strong hands-on technical expertise with the ability to provide strategic leadership. You will be comfortable contributing directly to engineering challenges while also setting direction and driving innovation aligned to business objectives
- Lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of security automation capabilities
- Define and implement automation use cases, reducing manual effort and accelerating response and remediation activities
- Own and evolve the security case management platform, ensuring it meets the operational needs of stakeholders
- Manage the infrastructure, platforms, and engineering practices that underpin security automation
- Champion Infrastructure-as-Code, Configuration-as-Code, and DevSecOps principles, ensuring platform configurations, integrations, and content are version-controlled, tested, and deployed through repeatable processes
- Drive the use of emerging AI capabilities across security operations to enhance analysis, automate decision-making, and accelerate response activities
- Develop and maintain a multi-year automation strategy and roadmap
- Define and track performance metrics, benchmarks, and service health indicators for continuous improvement
- Lead technical investigations and problem-solving activities for complex platform, integration, and automation challenges
- Ensure security, compliance, resilience, and audit requirements are embedded throughout platform design, engineering, and operational processes
- Provide line management, leadership, and direction for a team of security automation engineers, creating an inclusive high-performing and collaborative team culture
- Coach, mentor, and develop team members through regular feedback, career development planning, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership
- Act as a senior technical leader and domain expert, balancing hands-on engineering contributions with strategic planning, partner engagement, and organisational leadership- Understanding of security operations processes, including alert triage, investigation, and incident response
- Knowledge of modern DevSecOps practices, including Infrastructure-as-Code, source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and configuration management
- Experience evaluating and implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities within operational environments, including familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, AI agents, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) concepts
- Experience building and maintaining security capabilities in public cloud environments, with practical expertise in AWS and/or Microsoft Azure
- Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture
- Strong hands-on scripting and development experience, particularly with Python including API integrations and workflow automation
- Experience translating business and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Demonstrable experience designing, implementing, and supporting Security Orchestration,…
Skills
- amazon-web-services
- microsoft-azure
- Python
- workday
