Security Operations Manager in Bristol

Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.  

Our Business Services team is a collective of creative, strategic, forward-thinking business enablers. Together the People & Culture, Marketing & Communications, IT, Operations, Finance and Quality & Risk Management teams make it their mission to ensure Mazars has the right tools, technology, strategies and services in place to deliver exceptional client service and future-proof our growing business.

As a Security Operations Leader, part of the security function, you will be responsible for ensuring risks are captured and the Information Security posture across the firm is appropriately maintained with adherence to policies and standards.The Business Technology team within Mazars supports the implementation and support of information technology for the firm.  Information Security is a key element to everything we do as a function and this role has responsibility to deliver the IT Security efforts across the firm by working in collaboration with other key stakeholders in the business, with over 4000 users across 20 locations.

About the role•    Provide technical expertise toward the creation and maintenance of IT security policies and procedures.•    Provide technical security consultancy to internal IT projects and programmes.•    Support the client RFP and Security audit processes with technical understanding of the firm's IT environment.•    Support external vulnerability assessments and penetration tests and recommend paths to remediation of findings.•    Maintain and support IT Security tools and processes.•    Perform IT Security Operations functions including security log monitoring, incident response and management, firewall management, email and web traffic filtering and dealing with service desk tickets and escalations.•    Obtain and maintain existing and future accreditations in accordance with applicable regulations, client and other relevant internal requirements and industry best-practices.

What we are looking for•    Experienced IT security leader with broad technical experience.•    Knowledge and experience of industry standards such as ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials.•    Experience with Vendor management and relationship management•    Experience working across multiple teams both internally and externally.•    Extensive information security experience, across broad security domains.•    Previous experience as an IT System Administrator supporting a variety of platform - Windows, Azure, Intune, Office 365, Azure Threat Protection, Mimecast, ZScaler etc.•    Extensive vulnerability management experience•    Previous experience working with a Security Event and Incident Management platforms.•    Experience analysing events and logs.•    Good knowledge of enterprise network and host security controls.

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.

Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward.  Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.  

At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.  

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approach click here 

Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.