Head of Cyber

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Heard of us?

At Radius, we provide best in class fleet and connectivity solutions to businesses of all sizes.

Our mission is to help businesses adapt to the future by building solutions for a more sustainable, connected future.

Our comprehensive portfolio of solutions includes fuel cards, telematics, telecoms, insurance, vehicle leasing, EV charging, business energy, and expense management.

We are proud to have over 400,000 customers worldwide, over 50 offices across 5 continents, and over 2,800 talented Radius colleagues.

Technology and data underpin everything we do and have a big part to play in our ongoing growth plans.

This is where you come in...

The role...

The role of Head of Cyber is really important to us.

The Cyber Security team are responsible for the technology, controls and processes in place to protect the group's digital networks, devices and data from unauthorised access or unintentional activity.

The Head of Cyber will lead this team, working closely with the IT Operations Director to define and implement the group's cyber security strategy and roadmap.

This position is based from our head office in Crewe, Cheshire, and reports into our IT Operations Director.

Your responsibilities will include...

• Managing, mentoring and supporting the Cyber Security team.
• Maintaining overall responsibility for cyber security across the group.
• Working with IT Management to define and implement the cyber security strategy and roadmap.
• Working closely with other IT teams to evaluate and implement new technologies in order to evolve and strengthen the group's cyber security posture, both with internal and customer facing platforms.
• Proactively identifying cyber security deficiencies and opportunities.
• Actively participating in IT strategy planning activities, bringing current knowledge and future vision of cyber security as related to the needs of the business.
• Analysing and predicting trends and developing long-range plans designed to maintain effectiveness of the company's cyber security strategies.
• Managing a penetration testing and vulnerability assessment programme.
• Contributing to the design and build of cloud-based infrastructure and architecture, ensuring optimisation from a cyber security point of view.
• Contributing to the design and build of customer facing platforms and applications, working closely with software development teams to ensure cyber security best practice is considered throughout the entire SDLC.
• Creating and maintaining documentation around the use of cyber security technology in the organisation.

What do we expect of you?

• Extensive knowledge of cyber security, with a strong technical background.
• People management experience.
• Detailed understanding of application security along with experience of working alongside software development teams, supporting and advising on best practice to maintain security.
• Significant experience of endpoint detection and response (EDR) technologies and network detection and response (NDR) technologies.
• Detailed knowledge of Information Security standards including Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO27001.
• Good understanding of Linux and database technologies such as Ubuntu, Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Mercurial and Git.
• Good understanding of cyber security practices in relation to cloud hosting, preferably with experience of AWS.
• Good understanding of open source risk management using enterprise management tools.
• Positive attitude and a high degree of enthusiasm.
• An understanding of Service Management disciplines, ideally using the ITIL framework.
• Ability to keep up to date with technology trends and to understand key technical drivers in the industry.

What can you expect of us?

Your impact on Radius will be rewarded with the opportunity to develop and progress your career in many directions.

You'll also have access to our competitive reward and benefits package, which includes:

• Performance-related bonus scheme
• Pension
• Life assurance
• Employee fuel card scheme
• Electric Vehicle scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Wellness and healthcare assistance via 'Help@Hand' by Unum
• 'Cycle to work' scheme
• Free breakfast daily in the office

And of course, you will be part of a modern purpose-built space in Crewe that will provide you with an outstanding working environment complete with onsite gym, café, games areas, and more!

Still curious?

If you feel we are a good match for each other, you can apply online now!

If you'd like to understand more about the role or life at Radius before applying, then please contact our talent team via talent@radius.com.

Radius is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to welcome people regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation or socioeconomic background.

Note to Recruitment Agencies:

We do not accept unsolicited agency CVs or candidate profiles. Any unsolicited CV or profile received by Radius will be treated as a gift and not eligible for an agency fee. PSL agencies should only send CVs if authorised to do so by the Radius talent team.