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Lead Cyber Defence Analyst
So, who are we
Hello, were IG Group. We are a publicly-traded FTSE250 FinTech company who run mobile, web and desktop platforms that help our clients trade stocks & shares, leveraged products, Futures & Options and Crypto.
We are ambitious. Over 340,000 people already use our platforms. Were global with offices in 18 countries and products in 16 regions. Were hungry to move faster, ship better product for our customers and grow our user base. We believe in high autonomy, and we want people who are looking to do things differently in order to create better experiences for our customers.
We work in cross-functional teams and are laser focused on increasing the number of active clients we serve to drive sustainable growth.
Your team
This role sits within our Security Operations Centre (SOC), a 24/7 function responsible for detecting, investigating, and responding to cybersecurity threats across IG Groups global platforms. The team protects our clients, systems, and data through a combination of human expertise, AI-assisted triage, and continuously evolving security automation.
Your role in the Teams Success
As a Lead Cyber Defence Analyst (L3), you are accountable for shift operations and serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex and high-severity security incidents. You will drive meaningful improvements to the SOCs detection and response capabilities — designing SIEM rules, building SOAR automation, and leading post-incident reviews that translate lessons learnt into tangible enhancements.
Beyond the technical, you will play a central role in developing the analysts around you, mentoring L1s and L2s and helping to build a high-performing, continuously improving team. Your leadership during incidents, your visibility across shift workload, and your contribution to strategic SOC development will directly shape IG Groups ability to detect and respond to emerging threats at scale.
What Youll Do
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex, high, and critical severity incidents — leading investigations, coordinating response efforts, and keeping the SOC Manager informed throughout.
- Design and implement improvements to detection rules and SOAR automation, drawing on threat intelligence, lessons learnt, and emerging global threat trends.
- Lead post-incident reviews for high and critical severity incidents, facilitating lessons learnt discussions and driving measurable improvements to SOC processes and tooling.
- Mentor and coach L1 and L2 analysts, organise tabletop exercises focused on current threat trends, and provide cover and support for SOC Team Leaders when needed.
- Maintain shift oversight, monitor team workload and incident queues, and conduct proactive threat hunts in line with the JIRA procedure.
- 6+ years of extensive experience in SOC operations and incident response, with a proven ability to lead complex, high-pressure investigations and coordinate across teams.
- Deep technical expertise across SIEM and SOAR platforms, EDR tooling, and threat detection technologies, including hands-on experience building and automating detection logic and playbooks in production environments.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain automated workflows that improve SOC efficiency and reduce analyst toil.
- Strong mentoring and communication skills, with experience coaching analysts at multiple levels and delivering structured learning activities such as tabletop exercises.
- A proactive, improvement-focused mindset — comfortable analysing incident metrics, identifying gaps, and taking ownership of making things better.
This role requires flexibility to operate within the following primary working windows based on business needs:
APAC (Primary Working Window)
- India (IST): 08:00 – 17:00
- India (IST): 13:30 – 23:30
We try to take a thoughtful approach to our ways of working as a company. We follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office -- which we think balances the need to collaborate effectively and connect with each other. When it comes to how we deliver, there are 5 things we want everyone to do to drive high performance, better learning and career satisfaction:
- Lead and Inspire: Drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm
- Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes
- Champion the client: Understand and prioritise clients needs
- Deliver at pace: Push for fast, sustainable growth;
- Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedback
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The Perks
Your growth fuels our success! Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.
- Matched giving for your fundraising activity
- Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities
- Performance-related bonuses
- Insurance and medical plans
- Career-focused technical and leadership training in class and online, incl. unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning platform
- Contribution to gym memberships and more
- Free Lunch/Snacks
- A day off on your birthday
- Two days volunteering leave per year.
Number of openings
1
Skills
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About Company
We’ve been at the forefront of trading innovation since 1974, taking on the challenge to deliver an unmatched experience for our clients and raise the bar for tomorrow’s opportunities. Today, we’re a global fintech company incorporating the IG, tastytrade, IG Prime, Spectrum and DailyFX brands, with a presence in 20 countries across five continents – Europe, North America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
We’re an organisation of positive problem-solvers, united and inspired by our purpose, which is to power the pursuit of financial freedom for the ambitious. Our award-winning products and platforms empower go-getters the world over to unlock opportunities around the clock, giving them access to over 19,000 financial markets.
Today, more than 400,000 clients call IG Group home. IG Group Holdings plc is an established member of the FTSE 250 and holds a long-term investment grade credit rating of BBB- with a stable outlook from Fitch Ratings.
As the UK’s original over-the-counter (OTC) leveraged derivatives provider, we introduced a completely new, accessible way for people to trade on gold in 1974 – by defining it as an index.
Since then, we’ve challenged ourselves to build the world’s best technology platforms, products and exchanges. Our innovations have included the first online dealing platform for financial spread betting in 1998 and the first trading app for Apple Watch in 2015. Our award-winning app1 offers an intuitive, customisable interface with lightning-fast functionality and sophisticated tools for advanced traders, while still being easy to navigate for those with less experience.
We take a responsible approach to targeting and onboarding new clients. Recognising that our products won’t be right for everyone, we use sophisticated methods to check suitability during the application process.
We’re in it together with our clients, there with them at every step in their pursuit of financial freedom. That’s why we have a wealth of educational material available through our websites and IG Academy. From essential trading and risk-management techniques to providing market insights and alerts about upcoming economic events, we draw on nearly five decades’ experience to help people trade and invest more effectively.
In our 47 years, we’ve seen it all and tackled every challenge head-on. Numerous economic ups-and-downs, an uncertain regulatory landscape and other global events have tested our agility as a business – most recently the Covid-19 pandemic. Through this period of exceptional market volatility, our people have shown incredible resilience, demonstrating just how strong our operating model and risk management strategies are. We’ve handled unprecedented levels of client trading activity and account applications, all while our people adjust to a never-before-seen working environment. Our long-term investment in communications and technology proved to be one of the smartest decisions we ever made, enabling our people to work safely and effectively from home.
In FY21 we acquired tastytrade, an online brokerage and one-of-a-kind investor education platform with a growing share of the US derivatives market, primarily through options and futures. Much like us, tastytrade goes where no financial firm has gone before, making our two businesses the perfect pair. tastytrade shares our entrepreneurial ethos and always-innovating culture, and will be a valuable partner for IG Group.
Important dates & deadlines?
Application Deadline
31 Jul 26, 03:11 PM IST
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