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
Assistant Vice President Expectations
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.
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.

Barclays is a British universal bank. Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients and communities.
With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately 83,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.
Barclays is a trading name of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries. Barclays Bank PLC is registered in England and is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Registered in England. Registered No. 1026167. Registered office: 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP.