Head of Cyber Security

Hybrid working policy: 3 days per week required in the office.

An exciting opportunity for a Head of Cyber Security to join a leading professional services firm as part of their global IT leadership team.

The role will take responsibility for all aspects of the Cyber Security and IT Infrastructure environments.

Responsibilities:
- Lead, manage, develop, coach and mentor the Cyber Security and Infrastructure teams.
- Ownership of the strategies and roadmaps for cyber security capabilities. This includes email security/DLP, SASE/SWG/CASB, SIEM, etc.
- Ownership of the strategies and roadmaps for infrastructure, including LANs, WANs, PAAS/SAAS and other cloud services, etc.
- Management of the cyber security and infrastructure budgets.
- Maintain strategic relationships with all relevant technology service providers and ensure the timely and effective delivery of IT services.
- Lead security operations, including threat monitoring, incident detection, analysis, and response activities.
- Define and steer the Cyber Security programme to implement technical security solutions and controls aligned to industry best practice and the emerging threat landscape.
- Ensure the renewal of accreditations, such as Cyber Essentials + and ISO27001.
- Lead Cyber security awareness and internal facing communications and training, such as phishing exercises.

Required Skills/Experience:
- Proven experience of leading a Cyber Security function within a heavily regulated environment.
- Proven experience of working with IT security systems and information security governance, ie, control frameworks, incident management, operations and application of security best-practices.
- In-depth knowledge of security and infrastructure principles, methodologies, and tools (eg, Firewalls, Microsoft enterprise cloud services, VPNs, ZTNA, IDS/IPS, SIEM, Juniper MIST, encryption).
- Experience with security standards and frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, and GDPR.
- Certifications such as CISM, CISSP (highly desirable)

Head of Cyber Security

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