Senior Cyber Operations Test Manager - AVP

Date live: 10/07/2026

Business Area: Chief Information Security Office

Area of Expertise: Technology

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000087323

Additional Job Description

Join us at Barclays as a Cyber Operations Test Manager, where you’ll play a key role in strengthening our cyber containment capabilities and supporting our transition to a more advanced Cyber Operations model. In this role, you’ll regularly test and evidence our containment capability continue to work. This includes providing evidence for the self-assessment and the protection for our organisation against an evolving threat landscape.

To be successful as a Cyber Operations Test manager, you should have experience with:

Cyber Containment & Incident Response

Knowledge of cyber attack lifecycle, ransomware, malware, and threat containment strategies.

Ability to coordinate endpoint isolation, network segmentation, account restrictions, and other containment controls during security incidents.

Experience working with CSOC, IR, Threat Hunting, and Infrastructure teams during active incidents

Test Management & Exercise Delivery

Planning and execution of cyber recovery, cyber resilience, tabletop, and technical containment exercises.

Defining test objectives, success criteria, scenarios, and reporting outcomes.

Managing defect tracking, lessons learned, remediation activities, and continuous improvement programmes.

Some other high valued skills include:

Stakeholder Leadership & Governance

Coordinating across Technology, Security, Business, and Third-Party teams.

Producing executive-ready reports, risk assessments, and decision papers.

Driving governance, documentation, audit evidence, and regulatory readiness while ensuring testing and containment activities align with business objectives.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Knutsford.

Purpose of the role

To monitor the performance of operational controls, implement and manage security controls and consider lessons learnt in order to protect the bank from potential cyber-attacks and respond to threats.

Accountabilities

Management of security monitoring systems, including intrusive prevention and detection systems, to alert, detect and block potential cyber security incidents, and provide a prompt response to restore normal operations with minimised system damage.

Identification of emerging cyber security threats, attack techniques and technologies to detect/prevent incidents, and collaborate with networks and conferences to gain industry knowledge and expertise.

Management and analysis of security information and event management systems to collect, correlate and analyse security logs, events and alerts/potential threats.

Triage of data loss prevention alerts to identify and prevent sensitive data for being exfiltrated from the banks network.

Management of cyber security incidents including remediation & driving to closure.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.

Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes

If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.

Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.

Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.

Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.

Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.

Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.

Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.