Chief Cyber Security & Resilience Leader — Hybrid

Six Group; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work Models

Personal Development

Agile Working Methods

Job summary

SIX Group in Zurich is seeking a Head of Cyber Security to set the direction for a global financial infrastructure provider. This senior leadership role oversees strategy, people, technology, 24x7 operations and governance, with a focus on resilience and trusted performance.

You will drive platform engineering, incident readiness, and regulatory alignment across ISF, NIS2, NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, DORA and FINMA, while communicating with executives, clients and regulators.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive Cyber Security experience, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role with significant people, service and operational responsibility.
• Proven leadership of global or multi-country 24x7 cyber operations, including high-severity incidents and executive communication.
• Strong experience in financial services, financial market infrastructure or critical infrastructure, with deep knowledge of SOC, incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, SIEM, SOAR, EDR and automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cyber Security Department end to end, covering strategy, people, technology, 24x7 operations, service performance, budgets and improvements across locations.
• Define the Cyber Security operating model, governance, service strategy and priorities in line with Group strategy and risk appetite.
• Own cyber defence and major-incident readiness across security operations, threat detection, incident response, crisis management, threat intelligence and detection engineering.
• Drive cyber platform engineering and resilience, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, vulnerability management and automation.
• Ensure regulatory alignment and transparent performance reporting across ISF, NIST CSF 2.0, NIS2, ISO 27001, DORA, FINMA, CNMV and audits.

Skills

Cyber Security leadership

24x7 operations leadership

Regulatory and risk governance

Incident response planning

Stakeholder communication

Security architecture & platforms

Education

University degree in Computer Science / Information Security / Engineering / Information Systems / Business IT

Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC advantageous

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR

Vulnerability management

Automation

Job description

SIX Group in Zurich is seeking a Head of Cyber Security to set the direction for a global financial infrastructure provider. This senior leadership role oversees strategy, people, technology, 24x7 operations and governance, with a focus on resilience and trusted performance.

You will drive platform engineering, incident readiness, and regulatory alignment across ISF, NIS2, NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, DORA and FINMA, while communicating with executives, clients and regulators.