Senior Cyber Security Leader: AI & Cloud Security

Sidetrade Group; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Social Club activities

Medical coverage

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Mentorship programs

Advancement support

Job summary

Sidetrade in Paris/Boulogne-Billancourt seeks a Senior Manager, Cyber Security to shape and execute our operational security strategy. You will lead security improvements, influence architecture decisions, and partner with engineering, Platform and IT to embed security throughout development.

You will scale the security program across international teams, oversee risk management, incident response and supplier governance, and drive practical AI safeguards while communicating risk to senior

Qualifications

• Significant experience in operational cyber security, including leading people or major security programmes and delivering measurable improvements.
• Practical incident response, vulnerability management and security monitoring.
• Strong understanding of cloud and infrastructure security, identity and access controls, and secure software development.
• Ability to work constructively with engineers and business leaders, explain risk clearly and make proportionate decisions.
• Experience turning security strategy into a deliverable roadmap, coordinating stakeholders and managing security suppliers.
• Curiosity and sound security judgement about AI-enabled products.
• Fluent English and confidence working with international teams. French is welcome but not required.

Responsibilities

• Security strategy and risk: prioritise the risks that matter most, agree a practical improvement roadmap and communicate progress and investment needs to senior leaders.
• Security operations and response: develop the team and SOC capability, strengthen detection and investigation, and coordinate incident response and lessons learned.
• Product and platform security: embed security into architecture and the development lifecycle, partnering with engineering teams on threat assessment, testing and remediation.
• Assurance and improvement: oversee vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, manage security suppliers, and use meaningful measures to improve control effectiveness.
• Security as our AI capabilities evolve: work with our engineering and AI teams to assess emerging risks and establish practical safeguards for AI-enabled products, including protecting sensitive data, controlling access and permissions, and ensuring appropriate monitoring and oversight.

Skills

Security leadership

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Cloud security

IAM / access controls

AI security awareness

English fluent

Job description

Sidetrade in Paris/Boulogne-Billancourt seeks a Senior Manager, Cyber Security to shape and execute our operational security strategy. You will lead security improvements, influence architecture decisions, and partner with engineering, Platform and IT to embed security throughout development.

You will scale the security program across international teams, oversee risk management, incident response and supplier governance, and drive practical AI safeguards while communicating risk to senior