Job Description

Join us at EIT:

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:

• Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
• Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
• Climate Change & Managing CO₂
• Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org

Your Role:

As EIT continues to scale its research programmes, digital platforms, and scientific infrastructure, we are seeking an experienced Information Security Operations Manager to protect our people, data, and research environments.

This is a hands‑on leadership role that blends operational security management, incident response, detection engineering, and continuous improvement. You will work closely with IT, research computing, data governance, and legal teams to ensure that security enable, rather than restricts, world-class scientific innovation.

You will be a calm, decisive presence during incidents and a trusted partner across the organisation, ensuring that security controls are robust, resilient, and aligned to EIT’s mission.

Your Responsibilities:

Security Operations & Monitoring

• Leading and managing EIT’s security operations function, including monitoring, detection, response, and recovery.
• Owning and continuously improving incident response processes, playbooks, and post‑incident reviews.
• Overseeing vulnerability management, patching coordination, and the effectiveness of security tooling.
• Ensuring operational security controls are well‑defined, documented, and consistently applied.
• Managing security operations staff and external service providers.

Policy, Governance & Compliance

• Implementing and enforcing security policies, standards, and procedures.
• Supporting compliance with relevant frameworks (including ISO 27001:2022).
• Maintaining security evidence, audit materials, and regulatory documentation.

Technology & Infrastructure

• Overseeing SIEM, EDR, IAM, vulnerability scanning, and other security technologies.
• Ensuring secure operation of cloud, on‑premise, hybrid, and HPC research environments.
• Collaborating with IT and infrastructure teams on secure architecture and change management.

Requirements

Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience managing teams or leading operational security functions.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical risk clearly to varied audiences.
• Calm, clear leadership during security incidents.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001:2022 and security governance.

Desirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience in research‑intensive, scientific, or academic environments.
• Knowledge of high‑performance computing (HPC) or large‑scale data platforms.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GIAC).
• Experience coordinating physical and cyber security operations.

Benefits

Our Benefits:

• Salary: £75,000 - £90,000 (dependent on experience) + travel allowance + bonus
• Enhanced holiday + options to buy additional days
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance
• Hospital Cash Plan
• Therapy Services
• Perk Box
• Electric Car Scheme
• Childcare benefit

Working Together – What It Involves:

You must have the right to work permanently in the UK and live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate).