SOC Solutions & Cyber Advisory Lead

SOC Solutions & Cyber Advisory Lead

Position Description
At CGI, we help organisations make confident, informed decisions about cyber resilience. As our SOC Solutions & Cyber Advisory Lead, you will sit at the heart of our intelligence-led SOC services, shaping solutions that balance technical excellence with real-world business outcomes. Working directly with clients and internal experts, you’ll influence how services are designed, sold, and delivered, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and aligned to client risk and maturity. You’ll be trusted to lead with insight, encouraged to think creatively about service evolution, and supported by a collaborative culture that enables you to make a meaningful, lasting impact.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position.

Your future duties and responsibilities
In this role, you will act as the technical authority and trusted advisor for intelligence-led SOC managed services, bridging sales, service development, and delivery. You will work closely with clients to understand their threat landscape and business objectives, translating these into pragmatic, outcome-focused SOC solutions that are operationally viable and scalable.

You will take ownership of solution design and service evolution, while being supported by expert delivery and threat intelligence teams. Your contribution will help ensure smooth client onboarding, successful service adoption, and long-term optimisation of SOC capabilities.

Key responsibilities include:

> Advise & Shape client-facing SOC solutions aligned to risk, maturity, and business priorities

> Design & Develop intelligence-led SOC services, use cases, and advisory-driven offerings

> Support & Enable sales engagements, bids, and proposals with technical leadership

> Collaborate & Deliver with SOC operations, engineering, and threat intelligence teams

> Guide & Optimise client SOC maturity, onboarding, and service expansion

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
To succeed, you will bring deep technical expertise in SOC and managed security services, combined with the credibility to advise clients and influence stakeholders. You will be comfortable operating across advisory, pre-sales, and service development, with a strong understanding of how services are delivered at scale.

You should have:

> Strong experience in SOC operations, MDR/XDR, threat intelligence, and security architecture

> Proven background designing and delivering managed security services in client-facing roles

> Ability to translate complex cyber risk into clear, pragmatic solutions

> Excellent communication skills with experience engaging senior technical and business stakeholders

> Commercial awareness of service pricing, scope, and delivery models

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Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.