Security Operations Specialist

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**** About the Business
**** Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.
Quilter oversees £126.3 billion in customer investments (as of August 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments:
Affluent and High Net Worth.
Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.
High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.
At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.
Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!#
**** About the Role
**** Level:4

Department:
Information Security Operations

Location:

Southampton| London| Home Based Contract type:
Permanent The Security Operations Specialist will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing Quilter’s security posture. This role supports the detection, triage, and response to security threats across the organisation’s infrastructure, cloud, and endpoint environments.

The successful candidate will form part of the existing Security Operations function with rotation of core responsibilities a key aspect of the role.

Within this role you will work closely with internal teams and external MSSP’s to ensure timely and effective incident handling, vulnerability management, data loss and operational readiness.
** Key Responsibilities
**** Threat Detection & Incident Response
*** Monitor and triage security alerts from SIEM platforms and related security tools.
* Lead containment, eradication, and recovery efforts in line with Quilter’s Security Incident Response Framework and related Playbooks and Runbooks.
* Collaborate with SOC partner to ensure streamlined incident response and case management maturity objectives are met.
* Create, maintain and improve triage playbooks and runbooks for relevant incident response scenarios.
** Vulnerability & Risk Management
*** Support Vulnerability Management Specialist with scanning and remediation efforts using Qualys and MS Azure compliance tooling.
* Drive continuous improvement of security control gap and maturity initiatives identified within the business.
* Ensure the ongoing assessment of newly disclosed threats related to Quilter, the financial industry and related technology stacks are performed efficiently and effectively in co-operation with the Cyber Threat team.
** Tooling & Platform Operations
*** Operate and maintain security tooling including Crowd Strike, Proofpoint, and the Microsoft Defender Suite.
* Support Detection Engineer with ongoing tuning and refinement of SIEM platform.
** Insider Risk / Data Loss Prevention
*** Ensure the ongoing triage and monitoring of key data egress detection and prevention technologies deployed within the business.
* Support with the creation and tuning of data loss detection and prevention policies.
** Reporting & Governance
*** Contribute to governance reporting and metrics for security operations activities.
* Maintain evidence and documentation in line with internal audit and compliance requirements.
** Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
*** Participate in cyber exercises both technical and tabletop orientated with the aim of improving upon existing incident readiness and team capabilities.
* Engage with…