About the job
Join Point72’s Innovative Technology Team!
At Point72, we are redefining the landscape of investing. Our Technology group is dedicated to enhancing our IT infrastructure, placing us at the cutting edge of an ever-evolving technological environment. Our team is composed of skilled experts who are continuously exploring and experimenting with open-source solutions, while embracing an agile methodology tailored for the enterprise. We promote professional development to inspire innovative contributions that not only advance our products but also satisfy your intellectual ambitions.
The Information Security team is committed to developing, implementing, and maintaining a robust program that effectively safeguards the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our information assets. Our team consists of security professionals with a wealth of experience across a wide range of security disciplines.
Key Responsibilities
As the Director of Security Operations, you will lead and oversee Point72’s information security operations. Your role will be pivotal in protecting our systems, networks, and data by proactively identifying and mitigating security threats.
Key responsibilities include:
• Leading a team of security experts tasked with defending our global infrastructure, intellectual property, and sensitive information.
• Managing our comprehensive threat monitoring strategy and 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC), ensuring swift detection and response to security incidents across our global infrastructure.
• Directing cyber incident response efforts, collaborating with internal stakeholders, technology partners, external incident handlers, and law enforcement as necessary.
• Steering our threat intelligence program to anticipate and respond to emerging threats targeting the financial services sector. This includes integrating actionable insights into threat hunts, detection mechanisms, vulnerability management, preventative controls, and tabletop exercises.
• Overseeing threat hunting initiatives to proactively identify sophisticated adversaries that may have evaded detection.
• Driving the vulnerability operations program to ensure timely remediation of prioritized security weaknesses.
• Conducting penetration tests to identify and address findings to strengthen our infrastructure.
• Continuously enhancing threat detection capabilities by tuning and implementing new detection alerts.
• Facilitating purple team exercises to simulate and test detection capabilities against potential attacks.