About the role:
Drive security excellence across our technology stack whilst enabling business innovation. This role demands a generalist mindset with deep expertise, combining hands-on technical capability with strategic thinking to protect and enable Quantium's data-driven business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Security Platform Ownership: end-to-end responsibility for critical security platforms
- Detection and Response: real-time monitoring of security systems and applications, investigating anomalies, and escalating critical events to senior security and IT staff
- Risk-based decision making: independently assess, prioritise and remediate security risks aligned to business impact
- Cross-domain security: impact across multiple domains such as cloud security, application security, infrastructure security initiatives, detection and response etc.
- Collaborate: Partner with internal stakeholders to improve security outcomes, as well as with internal development teams to build pragmatic security solutions
- Drive automation of repetitive security tasks
- Show strong ownership of security issues and work to resolve and escalate where needed
- Contribute to security strategy and roadmap development
Experience, Education & Skills
- Demonstrated experience across at least 3 security domains (network, cloud, application, identity, AI, offensive, defensive, response, forensics etc.)
- Five years of experience in cybersecurity
- Track record of owning security outcomes end-to-end
- Experience translating technical risks into business language
- Provide ability to influence without authority
- Technical breadth
- Ownership mindset
The Following Skills and Experience Would Be an Advantage:
- Experience with AI Security practices and securing AI/ML systems
- Experience with Shift Left Security practices, including secure coding, DevSecOps, and security integration in CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS) Security configuration, and monitoring
- Experience with CSPM and CNAPP tools and methodologies
- Using tools like Terraform, Azure ARM templates, or GCP Deployment Manager
What Does Success Look Like?
- Drive measurable security risk reduction
- Proactive identification of issues and continuous improvement of security capabilities
- Help build a strong security culture
- Ensure operational excellence
Key People and Leadership Capabilities
- Self-aware - you leverage diversity across people, tasks, and projects, taking responsibility for self and others.
- Agile and innovative - you possess strong lateral thinking skills.
- Achieve and perform - you have exceptional execution skills and are achievement focused.
- Purposeful and aligned - you can set clear, tangible objectives which deliver against your performance objectives.
- Achievement oriented - you effectively facilitate challenging performance related conversations in a timely and appropriate manner.
