Chief Information Security Officer - CISO

Plentific is one of the fastest growing property technology companies in the world, backed by renowned investors including Brookfield, Highland Europe, A/O Proptech, Target Global and Mubadala. We are headquartered in London, UK, with offices in Germany, USA and Turkey. Our mission is to improve lives by making property work better for everyone. We do so by streamlining how repairs, maintenance and compliance services are delivered. Our platform gives clients rich insight into management, operational and performance data, helping them deliver their customer service promise, while optimising supplier costs and adhering to their environmental, social and governance goals.

Come and be a part of:

• A leading Proptech with a global footprint and an HQ in heart of London’s bustling centre
• A diverse, multicultural workplace with over 30 nationalities amongst our employees
• A stimulating atmosphere and fast-paced growth led by our recent $100m funding round
• A flexible work culture and a number of programmes built around your physical and mental wellbeing

Developing acclaimed technology is only possible when we’ve got a great team on our side. Our culture is open and empowering. If you are passionate and driven, you will fit right in.

The Role:

We’re looking for an experienced and hands-on leader to join us as our CISO and be responsible for all aspects of information security. As a business leader of this key function, you will report to the Co-founder and CTO and be responsible for designing and executing the overall information and cyber risk strategy. The role requires strong leadership and interpersonal skills as you will work cross functionally with various internal and external stakeholders.

Our architecture is built on AWS, with Kubernetes, so it is important that you have experience working in a similar engineering environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and execute the overarching cyber risk strategy
• Manage all teams, employees, contractors and vendors involved in cyber risk
• Monitor for attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorised or illegal activity
• Design new security systems or upgrade existing ones
• Use advanced analytic tools to determine emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities
• Identify potential weaknesses and implement measures, such as firewalls and encryption
• Investigate security alerts and provide incident response
• Prioritising and managing the existing threats within the business
• Understanding the technology stack and its vulnerabilities, and how to manage those in line with PCI / compliance / governance frameworks

Requirements

• Certified in CISA, CISM, CISSP, MSc InfoSec, or be a previous QSA / 27001 LA, SIRA, IA
• Experience of Cyber Security Detection, Prevention and Monitoring technologies such as SIEM, EDR, NDR, SOAR, UBA
• Provide security expertise related to modern development techniques and tooling (Agile, Git, branching strategies, Scrum/Kanban, CI/CD, IDE tools and pipelines)
• Working knowledge of Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, Docker and Kubernetes
• Comfortable and experienced owning Incident Response processes cross company
• Working closely with Security Operations to investigate alerts and application monitoring security incidents identified by an external SOC
• Experience of the Splunk platform and log analysis would be advantageous to support development of security use cases
• Experience and understanding of cloud platforms, such as AWS and GCP

Benefits

As you can see, we have big plans and are eager to grow our team of dreamers and doers to achieve our vision of managing over 1 million properties through our platform across various countries. You can help us shape the future of property management. Here’s what we offer:

• A competitive compensation package
• Private health care including discounted gym membership
• Learning and development fund
• A remote-friendly working environment + 23 days annual holiday
• Home office allowance
• A head office in the London Bridge area
• An inherently diverse culture with over 18 nationalities and 21 languages spoken