Your duties and responsibilities
- Support design and execution of the information security risk management framework
- Work with Legal, Risk and IT to ensure compliance with NIS2, DORA and/or ISO27K where relevant.
- Maintain and improve policies, standards and control documentation aligned to regulatory and client obligations.
- Assist with internal and external audits, client due diligence and exception management.
- Support product and engineering teams in adopting DevSecOps and secure design principles.
- Act as point of escalation during major incidents or zero-day threats for the in-scope entity.
- Lead and continuously improve our detection and response capabilities for the specific entity.
- Serve as a senior incident responder, addressing emerging threats across the environment.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, network, and cross-functional teams to contain, investigate, and remediate security incidents.
- Conduct root cause analysis and participate in forensic investigations as needed.
- Enhance system visibility by expanding logging coverage and implementing additional monitoring capabilities.
- Maintain, update, and regularly test incident response runbooks, containment strategies, and escalation protocols.
- Lead the end-to-end vulnerability management process for ION Markets systems, from identification to remediation.
- Provide support for security architecture reviews of developed systems to ensure alignment with best practices.
- This role may require some overnight, weekend and on-call activities.
Your skills, experience, and qualifications
- Fluency in Italian and English, as the role requires regular interaction with internal stakeholders, regulatory bodies and clients in the Italian Market
- Degree/diploma/certifications in a technology-related field and/or relevant working experience; highly desired certifications include:
- Security+, OSCP, CCSP, CEH, GCIH, GMON
- 7+ years' experience in Information Security with proven experience in operations & compliance roles.
- Must have fundamental programming/scripting capabilities (e.g. python, PowerShell, bash, etc.)
- Familiarity with NIS2 / DORA and external regulations.
- Strong understanding of ISO27K
- A team player with the ability to work independently and unsupervised
- Ability to own delegated tasks and see them through to completion
- Ability to manage time and prioritize work to maximize productivity
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Exceptional attention to detail and quality
- Excellent problem-solving techniques and trouble analysis skills
- Endpoint security concepts, controls, and best practices for Servers (e.g. Windows and Linux)
- General IT networking concepts, protocols, standards and network security concepts, controls, and best practices
- Cryptography fundamentals and data security controls and best practices
- Forensic investigation techniques
- Prior experience deploying, configuring, managing, and/or operating security technologies is preferred, such as endpoint security (e.g. AV/EPP/EDR), SIEM, DLP, SWG, CASB, UEBA, IDS, IPS, firewalls, IAM/PIM/PAM, vulnerability management, MDM, etc.