Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

We are seeking a Head of Security Operations and Corporate IT to lead and mature our Security Operations and Corporate IT functions, ensuring EPI scales securely, reliably, and efficiently. This role involves shaping vision and objectives, establishing clear goals, driving operational improvements, and aligning long-term roadmaps with business priorities. You will also lead vendor ecosystems and budgets to deliver scalable, cost-efficient, and audit-ready outcomes.

Responsibilities

Lead and evolve the Security Operations strategy and operating model, ensuring high-quality monitoring, triage, incident response, and continuous improvement.
Continue building a dependable security incident response capability with clear escalation, playbooks/runbooks, operational readiness practices, and strong post-incident learning.
Mature threat intelligence and security validation practices to strengthen detection coverage and organizational resilience.
Establish key, secrets, and certificate lifecycle management, enabling predictable and controlled operations.
Lead and evolve Corporate IT strategy and operating model, transforming it into a trusted, service-oriented function with measurable performance and excellent internal stakeholder experience.
Drive operational transparency through dashboards and KPIs across Security Operations and Corporate IT, proactively identifying, documenting, and escalating risks/issues with practical mitigation plans.
Own vendor performance and budget stewardship across managed service providers and tooling partners, ensuring value, accountability, and scalable outcomes.
Strengthen audit readiness and operating controls through disciplined documentation, evidence, and remediation follow-through.
Engage actively with external stakeholders and keep up to date with latest trends.

Requirements

+10 years of professional experience in Cybersecurity in one of the relevant fields, including at least 5 years managing and leading Security Operations.
Significant professional experience across Security Operations and/or Corporate IT Operations, ideally in a regulated or high-availability context.
Proven leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams, with a track record of improving services through people, process and technology.
Comfortable working remotely in a pan-European, multicultural environment.
Strong incident response leadership skills: calm under pressure, structured decision-making, and able to drive measurable improvements over time.
Experience building scalable operational practices: on-call/coverage models, escalation paths, runbooks, post-incident reviews, and operational KPIs.
Ability to design and implement pragmatic governance frameworks, including familiarity with enterprise cryptography/key management/certificates from an organizational perspective.
Demonstrated capability improving Corporate IT service delivery (service orientation, intake models, transparency, stakeholder satisfaction).
Experience managing vendors/partners and budgets, including performance governance (SLAs, regular reviews, escalations, value realisation).
Experience supporting control assurance/audit activities (ISO 27001, DORA, PCI DSS, SOC 2 or similar), including evidence discipline and remediation management.

Skills

SIEM
EDR/XDR
Vulnerability management
Ticketing/case management
Security automation (SOAR)
IAM concepts
Secrets management
PKI / certificate lifecycle management
Key management / HSM concepts
ITSM practices
Endpoint management/MDM
Collaboration and productivity tooling
Cloud environments
CI/CD
Observability
Incident management
English (CEFR C1 or C2)

Location

Remote

Work Type

Remote-first
Full-time

Experience Level

+10 years of professional experience
5 years managing and leading Security Operations

Benefits

Remote-first culture
Quarterly and annual all-staff in-person meetups
Possibility to work from another EU country for up to 3 months per year
Competitive compensation package
Performance-based bonus
Thoughtfully designed, high-quality benefits program
Opportunity to be part of a multicultural European company
Learning & development budget: €5,000 training budget per year

About the Company

In today’s digital Europe, payments still feel too complicated. Random delays, confusing rules, extra apps and accounts make it harder than it should be to pay and get paid.
The European Payments Initiative is changing that with Wero, a proudly European digital wallet to make payments easier, clearer and more secure. Online, in store, at home and across borders, with your money and data protected under European laws and regulations.
Wero is live in Belgium, France and Germany and launching very soon in Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Backed by 16 major banks and the two largest European acquirers, we’re building a brand new, proudly European payment system.

Equal Opportunity

EPI offers the same job opportunities to all, without distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability or age. EPI promotes the development of an inclusive work environment that mirrors the diversity of the clients our product is serving.