IT Security Officer

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