Senior Cybersecurity Leader

Job Title: Senior Cybersecurity Leader

• Timely and Effective Security Incident Response:
• Provide timely and effective security incident response within a 24x7 environment.
• Lead operation teams to effectively maintain the lifecycle of both on-premises and cloud-based security solutions.
• Manage response to security and operational incidents, and ongoing security requests.
• Coordinate and manage security incidents to ensure swift identification, containment, and remediation.
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks and procedures.
• Participate and contribute to industry cyber forums, both formal and informal.
• Support all audits and reviews requests.
• Monitor developments in the information security industry and communicate potential impacts or applicability.

• Support global vulnerability management processes including operating system patching, hardening, and testing efforts.
• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and prioritize remediation activities.
• Collaborate with IT teams to implement and validate security patches and updates.

• Manage Total Cost of Ownership for security solutions including new investments and business-as-usual financials.
• Operate and manage various security tools including Host Intrusion Detection Systems, Network Intrusion Detection Systems, Intrusion Prevention Systems, analysers, scanners, and more.
• Continuously monitor and analyse security tools to identify active threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, and exposures.
• Prioritize identified threats and vulnerabilities for remediation activities within the team.

• Assist in identifying and evaluating security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of security events to determine root causes and potential impacts.
• Provide recommendations for mitigation and remediation solutions to address identified security issues.

Qualification and Experience:

• Proven track record for managing technical resources to deliver technology lifecycles.
• Relevant information security experience working with or for a global exchange or a global financial firm. Other IT operational experience will also be considered.
• Solid knowledge and experience in cloud technologies, and familiar with cloud security architecture, design, and operations.
• Relevant experience with SecDevOps principles, Security Automation, and Orchestration.
• Must have relevant experience with industry best-practice approaches to designing, implementing, operating, and managing IT systems (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, ITIL, COBIT).
• Must have relevant experience with information security (e.g. CISSP, CCSP).
• Must have strong information security technology knowledge/concept and can effectively communicate with senior management and a broad range of technical/non-technical audiences. Strong written communication skills, experienced with writing board-level papers and verbal presentations to senior management.
• Must have a relevant University degree in Computer Science, Information Management, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Competency and Behavioral Skills:

• Essential - Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, cyber security or a related field.
• Essential - At least 10 years of relevant experience in cyber security.
• Essential - Knowledge of information technology operation (e.g. cloud, data, system, application and infrastructure, etc.).
• Essential - Knowledge of cyber security assessment (e.g. security audit, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, etc.).
• Essential - Knowledge of cyber security product (e.g. End-Point Solution (EDR), WAF, DLP, SIEM, SOAR).
• Essential - Knowledge of market best practice and framework (e.g. ITIL, ISO, PCI-DSS, NIST, etc.).
• Desirable - Certification in cyber security is an advantage (e.g. CISSP, CISM, CISA, ISO Lead Auditor, CEH, etc.).
• Desirable - Certification in project management and framework is an advantage (e.g. PMP, CPM, CSM, PRINCE2, CompTIA Project+, etc.).