This Director of Security and Infrastructure position is a career defining role at the top table of a UK fintech unicorn at a time of rapid growth.
Working as part of the senior leadership team the Director of Security and Infrastructure will be owning every aspect of security with a direct reporting line to the CTO: strategy, roadmap, policies, procedures, and governance. This will be your vision.
It’s a brand-new role and the brief will be wide with you running and growing the security, infrastructure, and IT teams. Bring experience in a high growth, rapidly scaling start up or scale up environment.
For this Director of Security and Infrastructure role, you must have proven experience of:
Leading cloud infrastructure and security functions in a software technology organisation
Strong background as a hands-on security practitioner
Definition, implementation and oversight of security policies, procedures, processes and practices, in an agile/pragmatic culture
Track record of growing, building, and improving your teams, finding the right path for each individual contributor and managing them to realise their potential.
Hiring, identifying, and retaining top talent
Building and maintaining key relationships with engineering, operations, compliance and other functions, leading to a strong security culture across the business.
Management of external security vendors providing SOC/MSS/IAM/PIAM/Pen Testing services etc.
Delivering high quality cyber security strategy in cloud hosted environments (ideally AWS)
Leading and facilitating internal and external security and systems audits
Managing security risk including reporting to board and customer representatives
Managing data security including data sovereignty
Leading an organisation through their security certification journey (ISO 27001 or SOC 2 ideally)
A bonus if you have experience of:
Leading security in an FCA regulated entity, ideally consumer credit
Leading an organisation through PCI-DSS compliance certification
Procurement and hardware/software licence management
Vendor negotiation and management
Hands-on DevOps experience with infrastructure management automation and/or
CI/CD tooling
Designing and delivering security training for technical and non-technical staff
Key package details for this Director of Security and Infrastructure role include a split working week with just 2-3 days required in the central London office, a salary of circa £150,000 + generous stock options.