Head of Security Operations
About the Role:
You will lead a team responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving security practices, techniques, tools, systems, and policies. This global leadership role in cyber security is critical to managing risk and ensuring the security and integrity of our data, internal infrastructure, and product deployments.
Key Responsibilities:
* Hire and mentor technical security professionals
* Define security standards and playbooks
* Own and drive the architecture and design of the SOC
* Analyse and improve security architecture
* Evaluate, select, and implement new security tools and practices
* Identify, contain, and guide the remediation of security threats and cyber attacks
* Grow the presence and thought leadership of the SecOps practice
* Contribute to open source threat intelligence initiatives
* Drive threat modelling, table top exercises, and other SecOps practices across Engineering, IS, and the company
* Develop SecOps learning and development materials
* Publish blog posts, whitepapers, and conference presentations
* Identify, implement, and track SecOps KPIs
* Plan and deliver SecOps work in the framework of the agile engineering practice
Requirements:
* A proven track record of mitigating advanced threat actors and nation-state threats
* Expert technical understanding of SOCs from the ground up
* In-depth knowledge of SOC architecture and design, including strategies for logging, firewalls, network segmentation, honeypots, etc.
* Someone who understands how the SOC works, not just how to use it
* Expert in Linux security
* Ability to define, implement, automate, and measure effective incident response playbooks
* Knowledge of security architecture and market-leading security tools
* Experience contributing to, and consuming, threat intelligence feeds
* Experience in security risk management frameworks such as NIST CSF
* An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
* Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
* Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
* Deep personal motivation to be at the forefront of technology security
* Leadership and management ability
* Excellent business English writing and presentation skills