Director - Cybersecurity, Infrastructure & Operations

Lead the organization's response to significant cybersecurity incidents and technology events.

Maintain and continuously improve incident response, cyber recovery, and crisis management plans.

Coordinate key internal and external partners during critical incidents.

Communicate technology and cybersecurity risks clearly to senior leadership and the Board.

Lead post-incident reviews and drive improvements to strengthen future resilience.

Provide strategic leadership across critical technology services, including:

Cybersecurity and security operations

Networks and connectivity

Cloud platforms

Data centres, servers, and storage

Identity and access management

End-user and collaboration technologies

You will help ensure our technology environment is secure, reliable, scalable, and resilient while driving modernization, automation, and operational improvements.

Lead and support major infrastructure and cloud transformation initiatives.

Help shape the organization's cloud strategy, governance, and security.

Ensure technology investments are secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective.

Partner with technology and business leaders to align transformation initiatives with organizational priorities.

Support initiatives involving cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, disaster recovery, AI enablement, and digital transformation.

Lead technology resilience and disaster recovery strategies and programs.

Ensure critical technology services can recover effectively from cyber incidents and major disruptions.

Lead disaster recovery testing, cyber recovery exercises, and ransomware resilience initiatives.

Identify, assess, and manage cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, AI, and third-party technology risks.

Provide leadership with clear insight into technology risks and recommended actions.

Partner with senior leaders across IT and the business to support strategic priorities.

Act as a trusted advisor on cybersecurity, technology risk, infrastructure, and operational resilience.

Work closely with Legal, Privacy, Procurement, and external partners to manage technology and third-party risk.

Lead, coach, and develop high-performing technology teams.

Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

You are a collaborative and strategic technology leader with a strong background in cybersecurity, infrastructure, and technology operations. You are comfortable moving between high-level strategy and complex operational challenges and can translate technical risks into clear business decisions.

Significant leadership experience in cybersecurity, infrastructure, technology operations, or related technology functions.

Experience developing and executing cybersecurity and technology strategies and roadmaps.

Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles, risk management, and security governance.

Experience leading cybersecurity incident response and crisis management.

Experience with cloud technologies and large-scale infrastructure or technology transformation.

Strong knowledge of disaster recovery, business continuity, and operational resilience.

Experience managing technology and third-party risk.

Knowledge of identity and access management and data protection practices.

Experience leading and developing technical teams and external service providers.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

The ability to translate complex technology and cybersecurity issues into clear business risks and recommendations.

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