CFC

Head of Security Operations

CFC

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

  • Lead the day-to-day operational cybersecurity functions for the Group, ensuring robust, efficient and globally coordinated security operations.
  • Direct ownership of security controls, security testing, vendor management, vulnerability and threat management, and incident response.
  • Work daily with the Group CISO to support consistent, high-assurance security practices across all regions and to support the management of cyber incidents.
  • Manage the security team and programmes of work in your responsibility area and manage global Cyber Incidents supporting the CISO team.
  • Work collaboratively with the SOC to ensure 24/7 visibility and threat detection across global environments, driving maturity and improvements.
  • Define and monitor KPIs for detection, response, and containment performance.
  • Ensure security controls are deployed, tuned, and monitored effectively across cloud and on-premises assets.
  • Lead the organisation’s global vulnerability management program with threat-led, risk-based prioritization and collaborate with IT for timely remediation.
  • Lead and refine incident response playbooks and support the Group CISO to define security maturity programme roadmaps, priorities and success metrics.

Requirements

  • Prior management experience managing security teams and programmes of work.
  • Demonstrated leadership and ability to motivate high-performing, globally distributed security teams.
  • Experience with cloud-native security in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Proven success scaling security operations across geographies.
  • Exceptional analytical and decision-making abilities during BAU and incidents.
  • Strong technical ability to understand and manage security tooling, integrations, and data pipelines.
  • Knowledge of responsibility to report incidents and security concerns within regulatory timelines and standards.
Benefits
  • Love what you do: We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
  • Challenge everything: We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
  • Have fun, be good: Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.

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Hard skills
cybersecuritysecurity controlssecurity testingvulnerability managementthreat managementincident responsecloud-native securityAWSAzureGCP
Soft skills
leadershipteam managementmotivationanalytical abilitiesdecision-makingcollaboration