Head of Cyber Security

1 month ago

Aberdeen, United Kingdom Brightsolid Full time

Are you customer obsessed? Can you lead and inspire a cyber security team to continually raise the bar to enable the delivery market leading managed security services? Do you have a strong information security background from setting strategy through to day-to-day operational delivery? Do you have significant experience working closely with engineering teams plus senior customer business and technical stakeholders?

If the answer is YES, then we have an exciting opportunity to join our innovative and growing business based in Scotland.

**About Brightsolid**

Put simply, we help our customers get the right mix of cloud services they need to power their business. Our managed hybrid cloud services are unique in Scotland; combining private cloud and colocation from our data centres in Aberdeen and Dundee, with public cloud services from AWS. With 25 years of experience, we’re a first choice as trusted advisors to help Scotland’s public and private sector take full advantage of the potential and benefits of the cloud. This breadth of solution and level of experience sets us apart from other companies. We put our customers first, always. Our skilled and highly certified team pride ourselves on building strong relationships and getting cloud right for our customers - every time.

**What will you do at Brightsolid?**

Brightsolid is looking for an experienced Head of Cyber Security with proven experience leading a team of security professionals and delivering managed security services to consistently meet, or exceed, the expectations of our customers. You will be:

- Accountable for the development and implementation of Brightsolid’s cyber security strategy and associated products and services.
- Accountable for Brightsolid’s internal SOC and managed security services.
- Accountable for our Information Security Management Programme ensuring Brightsolid continues to maintain ISO270001 and Cyber Essentials Plus accreditations as well as regulations such as UK Data Protection and EU GDPR regulations.
- Accountable for our information security management policies, processes and systems including the implementation and monitoring of all security controls.
- Leading the assessment of security events and the investigation of security incidents to protect Brightsolid and customer assets (e.g. facilities, data, network, server, access, people) while also protecting Brightsolid’s and our customer’s reputation.
- Accountable for our proactive vulnerability monitoring service ensuring that all known vulnerabilities are addressed in line our vulnerability management policy.
- Actively manage and monitor relevant threat intelligence feeds and where required assess, analyse and act including disseminating intelligence in a timely manner to stakeholders.
- Accountable for planning and co-ordinating internal and third-party led security tests, assessments and audits of our information security policies, procedures and systems.
- Accountable for identifying, assessing, managing, remediating, and tracking information security risks through our risk management framework and ensuring key risks are reported through regular MI reporting and governance forums.
- Responsible for supporting our pre-sales process by providing timely, accurate, and credible information security input to customer proposals and tender responses including directly engaging with our customers to clarify or challenge their requirements plus calling out any key assumptions and risks.
- Responsible for working closely with product management team to plan, build and introduce future security products and services which align with our hybrid cloud services proposition.
- Accountable for providing regular and meaningful management information covering at least our information security key performance indicators as well as any incidents / events, key security risks.
- Comfortable engaging with senior Customer and Brigthsolid stakeholders to discuss security related matters including acting as an escalation point for any service issues.
- Capturing and sharing security related knowledge and experience across the Technology function, wider organisation and external market through blog posts webinars and events.

**Requirements**:
**What are we looking for?**
- We recognise that this role contains a unique blend of security, technical and commercial skills and experience. To be successful you will bring:

- Strong leadership and proven people management experience to lead a high performing cyber security team with a strong service culture.
- Expert knowledge of Information Security frameworks, supporting processes and toolsets plus will hold a relevant information security professional accreditation.
- Ideally a strong understanding of Microsoft Sentinel and Defender services and if not a strong desire to learn more about these services.
- Good understanding of managed hybrid cloud services including good awareness of underpinning private and public cloud infr

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