Senior Manager, Threat Response, EMEA
United Kingdom
Threat Intelligence – Managed Detection Response and Security Operations /
Permanent /
Remote
About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
This is a rare opportunity to be part of a Cybersecurity team that protects a Cybersecurity company.
We are looking for a seasoned and strategic Senior Manager, Threat Response to lead and evolve our threat response capabilities in EMEA. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting a team of high performing security engineers, detection engineers and incident responders, with a mission to defend Sophos, its products and services from emerging threats and operationalize security at scale.
As part of the Global Internal Detection & Response team, you will shape and drive the execution of our Threat Response and Security Engineering roadmaps to enhance detection and response capabilities, working closely with technical leads in each of these units, while leading incident response efforts during critical security events. This role requires a strong engineering mindset, hands-on experience with automation and a passion for building scalable, resilient and proactive security operations
This leadership position creates meaningful, cross-functional impact that sits at the intersection of security engineering, threat detection and incident response units. It requires a balance between empowering your team whilst having sufficient technical acumen to assess incident impact and coach accordingly. This role is ideal for someone who is motivated by technical depth, strategic ownership and operational excellence.
What You Will Do
- Lead the execution of initiatives to improve the Threat response capabilities.
- Define and execute strategic roadmap for Security Operations, ensuring alignment with wider cyber security priorities and business goals.
- Drive continuous improvement across detection engineering, incident response and automation workflows to scale capabilities and reduce MTTD/MTTR.
- Partner with product, SophosLabs, Sophos MDR and IT teams to ensure security is embedded across systems and enterprise technologies.
- Oversee the end-to-end incident response lifecycle, including detection, triage, containment, root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
- Champion the development and refinement of processes and response capabilities using modern AI/LLM, SOAR and/or script based automation techniques.
- Foster the culture of operational excellence, technical innovation, and proactive risk mitigation through metrics and lessons learned.
- Represent the incident response function to leadership teams, delivering clear, actionable insights during security incidents and strategic review sessions.
What You Will Bring
- Proven experience of leading security engineering and incident response teams during incidents in a fast-paced complex environment.
- Deep understanding of modern threat landscapes, attacker tactics, and hands-on familiarity with EDR, SIEM, SOAR, cloud and log management platforms.
- Experience in successfully leading complex cybersecurity projects in an enterprise environment.
- A strategic mindset with ability to evolve the detection engineering and incident response programs.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, especially during high impact security incidents.
- Proven track record of coaching and developing teams, promoting a collaborative and empowered security culture that supports psychological safety of the teams.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and influencing security outcomes across business units.
Ready to Join Us?
At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.
What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
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