Senior Legal Counsel

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

As Senior Legal Counsel in the commercial legal team at Sophos you will provide expert and timely legal guidance to the business on a wide range of commercial matters. The day to day will involve negotiating, drafting, and reviewing commercial contracts including those arising from our supplier, channel, and customer streams, as well as dealing with queries and novel scenarios from the business as they arise. You will be keen to dive in, find out more about our solutions and work with the business and will work closely with internal departments at Sophos to forge good working relationships and ensure legal risks are managed effectively. This role demands a proactive, solution driven expert with business acumen who can think through a problem and advise in clear and succinct language.