Cybersecurity Director

At Nagra Kudelski Group, we are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director - Deputy Head MDR EMEA to join our team. As a key member of our Managed Detection and Response Leadership team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the seamless global delivery of our flagship services offered by the Cyber Fusion Centers (CFC).

• Act as a hands-on leader, setting vision and direction for the MDR teams as they strive to achieve technical excellence, operational rigor, while consistently aligned with Kudelski Security strategic business goals.
• Support the MDR Head in developing and implementing the strategic vision for the MDR Services together with the KS Line of Business to enhance the MDR Service capabilities.
• Collaborate with Senior Leadership to align security initiatives with business goals.
• Assist the MDR Head in leading, mentoring and managing a team of cybersecurity professionals.
• Provide expert guidance and support on cybersecurity issues to other departments.
• Communicate complex security issues and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Be the POC for complex technical client escalations.
• Be the POC for engagement managers and MDR leaders in case of complex cases.
• Remain up to date and contribute to enhance our service capability with current attack methods and characteristics to identify threats and advise on prevention, mitigation and remediation.
• Define, report KPI and lead efforts to continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the MDR services.
• Establish a new integrated cyber fusion practice in collaboration with the Product team, including the disciplines of Cyber Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Reduction, Vulnerability Management, and others.
• Transform the team from reactive, to proactive and predictive threat hunting, recommending mitigations and countermeasures.
• Stay current with emerging cybersecurity threats and industry trends.
• Identify and recommend improvements to existing security controls and processes.
• Identify potential risks associated with technical processes and implement risk mitigation strategies and operational security controls within the CFC perimeter in collaboration with Corporate Security.

• Experience: Minimum of 10-15 years of experience in cyber security.
• Experience in managing MDR services or a SOC.
• Work experience with multicultural teams in a transversal organization.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to handle escalated customer complaints and issues.
• Capability to convey a message to executives.
• Proven ability to multitask effectively and focus on multiple efforts at one time.
• Education: Master in cyber security or equivalent.
• Offensive and defensive certifications (OSCP, SANS,...).
• Skills: Extensive knowledge in networking (TCP/IP, firewall, routing,...).
• Extensive knowledge of ethical hacking skills and very good understanding of current threats (malware/ransomware).
• Knowledge of incident response processes (detection, triage, incident analysis, remediation and reporting).
• Understanding of network and system intrusion and detection methods; examples of related technologies include Next Generation Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP), Security information and event management (SIEM), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR).
• Good knowledge of Cyber Threat Intelligence and experience in implementing CTI programs.
• Language: Fluent in English. French and German are an asset.