Address remote type
Hybrid
locations
London - UK
time type
Full time
posted on
Posted 3 Days Ago
job requisition id
JR07181
About Us:
The payments market is the most exciting technology market in the world today for good reason. McKinsey values it globally at over $2 trillion and it’s growing between 13-15% year-on-year. Some of the largest most dynamic brands are investing in this sector; Apple has ApplePay, Google has GooglePay, Amazon has AmazonPay, and it’s not just the Silicon Valley brands. Tencent owns WeChatPay, Alibaba owns Alipay and digital disruptors like Square, Stripe and Adyen all invest millions to grow the payments market.
Planet are a technology company that’s transforming payments by putting the customer experience first. We help our customers deliver a better experience for guests, shoppers, and consumers everywhere. We operate in a market that continues to evolve and expand, partnering with the world’s most prestigious brands across Retail and Hospitality, and with a network of Financial Services partners worldwide.
To meet consumer demands, payments must be simple, safe, and invisible. The only way to do this is to fully embed payments in the software and networks that runs business. By combining networks, software and payment technology, Planet’s creating a world of connected commerce, that makes payments feel good. We’re growing organically, and with strong Private Equity investors, Advent International and Eurazeo, we’ve the financial capital and expertise to grow our capabilities and reach through acquisition.
Role Overview:
Planet operates 24 x7 globally encompassing a number of entities under the Planet umbrella providing our services. This role is part of the security leadership team and responsible for ensuring the ongoing, real time monitoring and protection of Planets systems and resources.
This role requires a strong blend of strategic leadership and vision alongside at least 10 years of hands-on technical expertise.
As the VP Cyber Security Operations, you will be responsible for leading and driving improvement within SOC activities both in house and via outsourced MSSP, Incident Response, SecOps Automation, Threat Intelligence and Security Posture Management.
Reporting to the CISO, this role is a member of the security leadership team.
Who you are:
- You have a strong academic background in computer science, information systems or similar discipline with a focus on Security or equivalent proven record of delivery within similar industry roles supported by relevant industry certifications (CISM, CISSP, CRISC or similar)
- An analytical problem solver with demonstrable long-term experience leading and improving operational security functions who enjoys working as part of a team in a rapidly evolving environment.
- Experience of securing large-scale DevOps and Cloud environment(s) is a must, preferably within an international regulated context.
- Highly Proficient in preparation of reports, dashboards, presentations and documentation with excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Partnership across all lines of business and development teams, particularly for incident management, is essential, so you’ll need to be collaborative and good at transparent communications.
- As a rapidly evolving organization, you must also be able to manage change at pace and balance the existing detailed requirements and secure the evidence necessary to meet stringent audit requirements.
- You will be able to react quickly, decisively, calmly and deliberately in high-stress, high-impact situations.
- As a motivated self-starter, you will have a drive to investigate and remediate complex security issue as well as looking to future delivery to protect against emerging threats.
What you will do:
- Ensure incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation and monitoring.
- Revise and develop processes and automation to strengthen the current Security Operations framework, drive efficiencies and reduce time to respond.
- Perform threat management, threat modelling, identify threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring.
- Deliver improvements to the internal incident reporting process.
- Responsible for team & vendor management, overall use of resources and initiation of corrective action where required.
- Responsible for managing the completeness and cost of data ingestion into security tooling.
- Creation of reports, dashboards and metrics for operational security and their presentation to senior management.
- Co-ordination with stakeholders, build and maintain positive working relationships with them.
- Develop crisis simulation exercises to meet regulatory requirements and to enhance Planets response capability.
- Build relationships with other relevant organisations and industry bodies to bring in best practice.
- Oversee the scoping, scheduling and preparation of technical testing (Pentesting, Application Testing, VM, etc), managing multiple external suppliers.
- Direct darknet monitoring for threat intelligence to Planet.
- Other related security activities as necessary to support the protection of Planet in line with its business needs.
- Oversight of operational Domain and Certificate management, renewals and creation of consolidated strategy and provider.
- Actively working with technical application and infrastructure teams to ensure correctly deployment and configuration of technical security monitoring toolset and their correct reporting to SIEM / alerting tools.
- Liaison and direction of 3rd party outsourced service providers and resources responsible for security monitoring, alerting, reporting and remedial activities.
Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce. We would love to hear from you – Apply now.
About Us
Company Background
Planet provides integrated software, payment and technology solutions for its customers in the Hospitality and Retail sectors and worldwide via a network of global Financial Services Partners.
Founded over 35 years ago, we have evolved our services, delivering an innovative digital commerce platform that puts customer experience first.
With headquarters in London and around 3,000 expert employees located across six continents we serve customers in over 120 markets.
