Head of Security

Key Responsibilities

1. Own KIDAN's Security Posture

• Own KIDAN's overall security posture, security strategy, policies, standards and security roadmap.
  
• Ensure security is embedded across KIDAN's technology, operations and internal environment.
  
• Identify and challenge security risks, gaps and priorities, and drive corrective actions.
  
• Own security compliance and support certifications and frameworks such as ISO 27001.
  
• Work closely with Technology, Operations and leadership to ensure security is built into how KIDAN operates.
  
• Be technically involved in assessing KIDAN's security architecture, technologies, configurations, controls and implementations.
  
• Regularly go beyond governance and documentation to validate that security controls are actually implemented and working effectively in practice.
  

2. Provide Hands-On Technical Security Leadership

• Act as a technical security leader who can get into the field and work directly with technical teams.
  
• Review and challenge security architectures, technical designs, configurations, implementations and security controls.
  
• Participate directly in complex security investigations, incidents, escalations and technical problem-solving when required.
  
• Work alongside engineers, security specialists and SOC analysts to solve complex security challenges and improve technical capabilities.
  
• Maintain a strong understanding of the technologies, tools and platforms used across KIDAN's security environment.
  
• Be able to independently understand and assess technical security issues rather than relying exclusively on the security team for technical interpretation.
  
• Set the technical standard for the security organization and continuously raise the team's technical maturity.
  
• Remain sufficiently hands-on to maintain technical credibility with both internal teams and enterprise customers.
  

3. Own & Develop the Security Offering

• Own the strategy, quality and relevance of KIDAN's security offering.
  
• Continuously challenge and improve our security services, capabilities and value proposition.
  
• Ensure our SOC and security services are technically strong, operationally mature and aligned with enterprise customer needs.
  
• Stay close to the actual delivery of our security services and understand how our offerings are implemented in real customer environments.
  
• Work with the commercial and technology teams to identify opportunities to grow KIDAN's security business and revenue.
  
• Ensure what we sell is what we can genuinely deliver at a high standard.
  
• Participate in the design and evolution of security solutions, architectures and service models.
  
• Support the team in complex technical customer opportunities where senior security expertise is required.
  

4. Challenge Security Delivery

• Ensure security services and projects are delivered to a consistently high standard.
  
• Stay close to delivery and regularly engage with the teams doing the technical work.
  
• Challenge processes, technical decisions, architecture and delivery quality where security standards are not met.
  
• Review technical deliverables and security implementations where appropriate.
  
• Oversee the SOC team and ensure strong operational performance, processes, quality and continuous improvement.
  
• Establish clear security KPIs, controls and quality standards.
  
• Step into critical delivery, technical escalations or incidents when the situation requires senior technical expertise.
  
• Ensure lessons from incidents, projects and customer engagements are translated into improvements across the security function.
  

5. Enterprise Customer & Security Escalation Point

• Act as a senior security point of contact for key enterprise customers.
  
• Be comfortable going into customer environments and engaging directly with technical teams, security teams, IT leaders and executives.
  
• Lead or support customer discussions around security strategy, architecture, compliance, risk and major security requirements.
  
• Participate in technical workshops, security assessments, architecture discussions and complex customer engagements.
  
• Act as the escalation point for critical security topics, incidents and customer concerns.
  
• Be able to discuss technical security topics at depth with experienced customer security and IT professionals.
  
• Build trust with customers by bringing strong technical expertise, credibility and business understanding.
  

6. Security Leadership & Governance

• Establish clear security governance, ownership and decision-making across KIDAN.
  
• Ensure security risks are visible and appropriately escalated to leadership.
  
• Partner with Technology, Compliance, Operations and other functions on security priorities and risk management.
  
• Lead, coach and develop the security team, creating a culture of technical excellence, ownership and continuous improvement.
  
• Lead by technical credibility and expertise, not only through management and delegation.
  
• Stay current on relevant threats, technologies, regulations and industry standards and translate them into actionable priorities for KIDAN.
  
  
  

What Great Looks Like

• KIDAN has a strong, credible and continuously improving security posture. Security is not only documented and compliant. It is genuinely strong in practice over all KIDAN.
  
• KIDAN is recognized internally and externally as a credible security partner, not simply an IT company that also sells security. KIDAN is able to confidently demonstrate its security maturity to enterprise customers.
  
• Our security offering is relevant, technically strong, differentiated and commercially valuable.
  
• Our SOC and security services are delivered consistently, professionally and to a high standard. All are continuously challenged and improved.
  
• KIDAN's security revenue grows because customers trust our expertise and see clear value in our offering.
  
• Enterprise customers know they have a senior, credible security expert they can trust and escalate to.
  
• Security risks, incidents and compliance gaps are identified early and acted upon.
  
• Technology and security teams work closely together, with security embedded into how KIDAN builds and delivers technology.
  

• Strong senior experience in cybersecurity, information security, security operations or a CISO-level role.
  
• Strong understanding of security strategy, governance, risk, compliance and security operations.
  
• Experience managing or leading a SOC / security operations function.
  
• Strong understanding of enterprise cybersecurity and security service delivery.
  
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and senior stakeholders.
  
• Strong ability to challenge technical and business decisions and communicate risk clearly.
  
• Experience with ISO 27001 and relevant security frameworks.
  
• Fluent in French and English.
  
• German is a strong advantage.
  
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to connect security capabilities to customer value and business growth.
  
• Hands-on, credible and comfortable operating across strategy, technology, delivery and customer conversations.