Cyber Incident Response Manager

Job Category:  Other
Contract Partner Company:  Jobs Service
Employing Company:  EDF

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Cyber Incident Response Manager


Gloucester Business Park, Bristol - with flexibility of working from home, minimum 3 days a week in the office.


Are you experienced in cyber security and familiar with industrial systems like ICS/OT? Do you have a background in regulated environments and want to grow your skills in incident response and resilience within the nuclear sector? If so, join EDF as a Cyber Incident Response Manager!


The Opportunity


As a Cyber Security Response Lead, you’ll build and maintain a coordinated incident response capability across nuclear licensees, ensuring resilience and alignment with emergency arrangements. You’ll support the rollout of response and recovery capabilities based on the NIST Framework and the Nuclear Cyber Security Strategy.


You’ll lead cyber security exercises, engage with sector working groups (including NCSC), and advise EDF on emerging threats and risk mitigation. When needed, you’ll support licensees during major incidents and provide crisis management guidance


Pay, benefits and culture


Alongside a starting salary of £80,000 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.


We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.


At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.


Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.  


We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.


We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.


What you’ll be doing


As Cyber Incident Response Manager, you will lead response activities across nuclear licensees, managing a team and coordinating with retained consultants to ensure readiness and resilience. Expect to establish and mentor a pool of first responders, including out-of-hours capabilities, while driving continuous improvement through lessons learned and operational experience.


Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders—including NCSC, ONR, DESNZ, and EDF Enterprise IT—is key to sharing threat intelligence, guiding detection capability development, and advising on risk-based business impacts. You’ll also be responsible for designing and running cyber exercises, maintaining incident response playbooks, and integrating protocols with broader emergency arrangements.


Clear communication through policy and operational documentation is essential, as is acting as a focal point for incident analysis and forensic handling. When major incidents occur, you may be called upon to support nuclear licensees directly, offering expert guidance to ensure effective containment and recovery.


Who you are


You’ll have strong knowledge of cyber security standards like ISO27000 and frameworks such as Mitre ATT&CK. You’ll understand how cyber threats affect both IT and industrial control systems, and have experience managing complex risks in regulated environments.


You’ll lead and support incident response efforts, build response plans, and run exercises to keep teams prepared. Strong communication and leadership skills are key, as you’ll work closely with stakeholders across EDF and external partners like NCSC and ONR.


We’re looking for someone who can work independently, make informed decisions, and guide others through cyber incidents. Experience in the nuclear or government sector is a plus, and qualifications like CISSP, CISM, or SANS would be beneficial.


If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you!
 

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Clearance (SC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 5 years.


#NuclearServicesJobs #HinkleyPointCJobs #LI-Hybrid #DestinationNuclear #EDFNuclearJobs

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

Cyber Incident Response Manager


Gloucester Business Park, Bristol - with flexibility of working from home, minimum 3 days a week in the office.


Are you experienced in cyber security and familiar with industrial systems like ICS/OT? Do you have a background in regulated environments and want to grow your skills in incident response and resilience within the nuclear sector? If so, join EDF as a Cyber Incident Response Manager!


The Opportunity


As a Cyber Security Response Lead, you’ll build and maintain a coordinated incident response capability across nuclear licensees, ensuring resilience and alignment with emergency arrangements. You’ll support the rollout of response and recovery capabilities based on the NIST Framework and the Nuclear Cyber Security Strategy.


You’ll lead cyber security exercises, engage with sector working groups (including NCSC), and advise EDF on emerging threats and risk mitigation. When needed, you’ll support licensees during major incidents and provide crisis management guidance


Pay, benefits and culture


Alongside a starting salary of £80,000 and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.


We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.


At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.


Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.  


We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.


We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.


What you’ll be doing


As Cyber Incident Response Manager, you will lead response activities across nuclear licensees, managing a team and coordinating with retained consultants to ensure readiness and resilience. Expect to establish and mentor a pool of first responders, including out-of-hours capabilities, while driving continuous improvement through lessons learned and operational experience.


Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders—including NCSC, ONR, DESNZ, and EDF Enterprise IT—is key to sharing threat intelligence, guiding detection capability development, and advising on risk-based business impacts. You’ll also be responsible for designing and running cyber exercises, maintaining incident response playbooks, and integrating protocols with broader emergency arrangements.


Clear communication through policy and operational documentation is essential, as is acting as a focal point for incident analysis and forensic handling. When major incidents occur, you may be called upon to support nuclear licensees directly, offering expert guidance to ensure effective containment and recovery.


Who you are


You’ll have strong knowledge of cyber security standards like ISO27000 and frameworks such as Mitre ATT&CK. You’ll understand how cyber threats affect both IT and industrial control systems, and have experience managing complex risks in regulated environments.


You’ll lead and support incident response efforts, build response plans, and run exercises to keep teams prepared. Strong communication and leadership skills are key, as you’ll work closely with stakeholders across EDF and external partners like NCSC and ONR.


We’re looking for someone who can work independently, make informed decisions, and guide others through cyber incidents. Experience in the nuclear or government sector is a plus, and qualifications like CISSP, CISM, or SANS would be beneficial.


If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you!
 

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Clearance (SC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 5 years.


#NuclearServicesJobs #HinkleyPointCJobs #LI-Hybrid #DestinationNuclear #EDFNuclearJobs

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.