Manager, Information Security (UK REMOTE)

MUST BE UK BASED

100% REMOTE

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, and ProctorExam.

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We are looking for someone who brings passion, managerial experience, attention to detail, technical leadership and the willingness to continuously learn. This role reports to the Sr. Director of Security and Compliance.  

The Manager, Information Security is a hands-on role primarily responsible for providing operational and tactical leadership for the security operations and vulnerability management functions.   The role requires someone that's well versed in security information event monitoring, endpoint security, web application security, vulnerability management, network & web penetration testing and threat hunting.

As a Manager, Information Security your duties and responsibilities will include:

• Hire, develop and retain a team of security analysts
• Act as a mentor to junior members of the Security & Compliance teams
• Assess, classify, and prioritize security events and establish processes to remediate and reduce the likelihood of further occurrences
• Develop and document SecOps processes, procedures, and playbooks 
• Manage security tools and optimize existing tools to strengthen monitoring, prevention, detection, and response capabilities
• Implement automated and intelligent remediation controls to safeguard our environments
• Work with Sr. Director of Security & Compliance to lead incident response activities while involving all pertinent internal and external stakeholders 
• Define, collect, and report operational metrics 

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in information security, two of which must include management experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with security in SIEM, Log Management, DLP and Endpoint Security tool sets (CrowdStrike, Splunk, SumoLogic, Jamf etc.)
• Strong relationship management experience in influencing and motivating internal functions with minimal direction.
• Proven track record building productive relationships with key business leaders and senior stakeholders in technology as well as the business.
• Ability to provide a balance of strategic planning and tactical execution.
• Retains up-to-date knowledge of security architecture and security risk trends.
• Knowledge of CIS and/or NIST frameworks 
• Relevant industry security certifications such as Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), CISM or CISSP
• Experience with vulnerability scanning tool sets and managing penetration tests
• Experience in communicating business risk from cybersecurity issues
• Proving track record of driving measurable improvement in monitoring and response capabilities 

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