Job Description

Role Description 

The IT Security Officer serves as the process and policy owner related to the availability, integrity and confidentiality of customer, business partner, employee and business information/data. A key element of the IT Security Officer’s role is working with executive management to determine acceptable levels of risk for the organization. This position is responsible for establishing and maintaining a corporate-wide information security management program to ensure that information assets are adequately protected. 

Key functions 

• Security Operations:

  • own  and drive security education and security awareness programs across the organization
  • own, drive and continuously improve security processes, policies and tooling 
  • real-time analysis and triage of security threats and incidents
  • proactively educate and inform executive management of developing security threats
  • develop, implement and execute a strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security and IT risk management program 

• Application Security:

  • introduce application and infrastructure security monitoring processes and tooling 
  • design and manage and run application and infrastructure security testing (internally and with 3rd parties)

• Security governance: 

  • make sure that security related initiatives are understood and funded 

  • lead and drive future company security certification programs 

  • represent the company security in front of technology partners 

  • conduct internal technical and organizational audits 

  • manage and support external audits 

  • manage, handling and resolve security incident response cases

Requirements

• degree in business administration or a technology-related field required 
• 5+ years of hands-on IT security experience 
• experience in risk management, information security and IT security
• knowledge of common information security management frameworks, such as ISO/IEC 27001, and NIST
• knowledge of PCI-DSS requirements for merchants working with BSP supervised financial institutions 
• excellent written and verbal communication skills and high level of personal integrity and empathy 
• innovative thinking and leadership with an ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams
• experience with contract and vendor negotiations and management including managed services

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