Overview
This role involves overseeing day-to-day operations, developing and implementing strategies, and leading the development of solution architectures within cyber security, specifically focusing on PKI and Cryptography.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the day-to-day operations, including delegating tasks and ensuring that all work is completed on time and to a high standard;
- Develop and implement strategies to achieve goals and objectives, in line with the organisation's overall mission and vision;
- Lead the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas;
- Lead the preparation of technical plans and ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available;
- Provide advice and guidance on security strategies to manage identified risks and ensure adoption and adherence to standards;
- Plan and drive scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives.
Required Experience
- A Master’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 5 years post-related experience. Or a Bachelor’s degree with 8 years post related experience;
- Remarkable IT experience, including at least 5+ years in a senior leadership or deputy role managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams;
- Prolonged track record overseeing large-scale IaaS, PaaS, and NaaS environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, or private enterprise clouds);
- Experience managing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), hardware security modules (HSMs), cryptographic key lifecycles, and data-at-rest/in-transit encryption standards;
- Experience managing extensive financial resources, and strictly enforcing vendor Service Level Agreements (SLAs);
- Prolonged experience managing teams, resources, projects and service delivery;
- Demonstrable experience in the development and use of Cyber Security Architectures, Technologies and Tools in securing Enterprise Level CIS environments;
- Experience of high-assurance cryptographic equipment, COMSEC (Communications Security) account management, and Key Management Infrastructure (KMI).
Qualifications
- A Master’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline or a Bachelor’s degree;
- Hold, or have held, a nationally recognised qualification in Service Management, preferably ITIL V3, V4, V5 at Practitioner/Intermediate/Manager/Professional/Leader level;
- Hold, or have recently held, a nationally recognised qualification in CIS Leadership/Management.
