Security Operations Lead

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Building, mentoring and coaching a high-performing Security Operations team across the UK and Australia. You'll create an environment of continuous learning, clear ownership, and psychological safety - where your team feels empowered to act decisively under pressure.
• Detection & Tooling: Owning our security monitoring and detection capability - SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and threat intelligence platforms. You'll drive the tooling roadmap, tuning detections to reduce noise and increase fidelity, and champion automation to keep pace with the threat landscape.
• Metrics & Reporting: Defining and owning the Security Operations KPIs and KRIs that matter. You'll produce clear, concise reporting for senior stakeholders and leadership on the health of the function - including mean time to detect, mean time to respond, and coverage trends.
• Compliance & Governance: Ensuring our security operations posture supports Kaluza's regulatory and contractual obligations. You'll act as a key stakeholder in audits, assessments and customer security reviews, and maintain close alignment with our Legal, Compliance and Privacy teams.
• Is this the job for me?
• We're looking for an experienced security operations professional who combines deep technical knowledge with genuine leadership ability. Ideally, you'll have:
• Leadership Experience: A track record of building and developing security operations teams, including managing people across multiple geographies and time zones. You lead by example, invest in your people, and create clarity in ambiguous situations.
• Incident Response Expertise: Hands-on experience leading major incident response, including regulatory notification obligations. You're someone teams look to when things get difficult - composed, struct

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Additional Information

Job title: Security Operations Lead Location: London, Edinburgh or Bristol (Including hybrid) Salary: £69,600 - £87,000 Team: Security Operations Reporting To: Head of Security This role is based in Bristol or London and requires an existing right to work in the UK. At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship. Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today's challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future. Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life. With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen. Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working? You'll be joining the Information & Cyber Security team, a core part of our Platform & Security Engineering organisation. Security at Kaluza isn't a silo - you'll work closely with colleagues across security engineering, application security, identity and access management, cloud security, and security architecture. As Security Operations Lead, you'll own and grow the Security Operations function, leading a team spread across the UK and Australia. You'll be the senior escalation point for security incidents, a calm and authoritative presence in high-pressure situations, and the person who ensures Kaluza's operational security capabilities are always evolving to meet new threats - including the unique challenges that come with being an AI-enabled business.

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