Job Summary
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
Leading a world-class Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) as the Director of SOC for the United Kingdom presents an exciting and challenging opportunity to lead at the forefront of cybersecurity operations. This role is central to ensuring the security and resilience of the organization's critical assets and data, making it a pivotal position in RBC’s overall threat management framework.
The successful candidate will be contributing meaningfully to the ever-evolving field of cybersecurity, providing protection at a Global scale. They will partner with the other SOC Global Leaders in Toronto and Vancouver while driving innovation and excellence protecting RBC’s employees, assets, and clients.
This role is at the heart of the organization's defense strategy, ensuring timely and effective responses to ever evolving threats. This role also partners with Global Security Leadership, Executives and Business stakeholders to achieve the goals of Triage and Incident Response capabilities for cyber security incidents.
Leading a world-class SOC as a is more than just a job–it’s an opportunity to make a significant impact in safeguarding RBC from the emerging threat landscape.
What will you do?
1. Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the SOC, ensuring alignment with RBC’s objectives. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement and establish clear priorities for threat detection, incident response, and risk mitigation.
2. Operations Management: Oversee the day-to-day operations of the SOC, ensuring effective monitoring and response to security incidents. Optimize the tools used by the SOC – SIEM, SOAR, EDR to enhance detection and response capabilities. Implement and maintain incident response plans, playbooks, processes, and procedures.
3. Threat Management: Monitor emerging threats and adapt strategies and defenses proactively. Ensure rapid detection and resolution of cyber incidents, minimizing impact and leverage global and regional threat intelligence to anticipate and mitigate potential attacks.
4. Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and develop a diverse team of analysts, engineers, and threat hunters. Recruit and retain top cybersecurity talent to ensure a high-performing SOC and promote professional growth through training and certifications for team members.
5. Professional Growth: Collaborate with industry experts and gain exposure to innovative practices and technologies in a global setting.
6. Communications: Serve as the primary point of contact for Security Operations, reporting to leadership and collaborate with IT, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Communications, Crisis, and Group Risk Management to align security efforts with organizational needs.
7. Incident Preparedness and Response: Coordinate the organizations response to significant security incidents, including forensic investigations and root cause analysis. Lead tabletop exercises and simulations to ensure readiness for various attack scenarios and ensure proper documentation and reporting of incidents for regulatory compliance.
8. Provide 7/24/365 support for urgent security issues.
9. Supplier Management: Manage and maintain supplier engagements owned locally by the SOC. Perform regular risk assessments, monitor vendor engagements to ensure oversight and performance of SLA’s. Review SOC2 reports, report third party incidents to Third Party Risk, and complete all Supplier Management required tasks to ensure compliance.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
1. Experienced Leader: Extensive Cybersecurity and solid leadership experience managing Cybersecurity Operations teams or equivalent, with a proven history of leading teams during high-stakes incidents.
2. Strategic and Decisive: Strong analytical and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage complex incidents under pressure. Lead and influence through expertise, relationship building, and value delivery. Ability to define and execute a long-term vision for SOC aligned with the firm’s goals.
3. Technically Proficient: Experience with SOC processes, including threat detection, incident response and recovery. Deep understanding of threat vectors, attack methodologies, and defensive measures, along with firsthand experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDRs, and forensic tools.
4. Cybersecurity Frameworks: Strong knowledge of NIST CSF, ISO 27001/27002, MITRE ATT&CK, FFIEC, Cyber Essentials, and other relevant frameworks.
5. Lead by example: Embracing RBC values (service, teamwork, responsibility, diversity, integrity) and ensuring employees are motivated to make decisions in the best interests of RBC and our clients.
6. Collaborative Communicator: Ability to effectively communicate risks, strategies, and SOC performance to executive leadership. Capacity to represent RBC at industry events or in crisis scenarios.
7. Business Acumen: In-depth understanding of financial regulations – GDPR, GLBA, PCI DSS, SOX, and regional banking standards. Understanding resource allocation and cost management.
8. Emotional Intelligence: Ability to maintain composure under pressure and manage team morale. Lead with empathy by understanding and addressing the concerns of both technical teams and stakeholders.
9. Regional Awareness: Understanding the region’s regulatory, cultural and threat landscape.
10. Industry recognized certifications (CISSP, GCIH, CISM, CRISC, etc.).
Nice-to-have
1. Bachelor’s Degree in IT related disciplines or relevant experience.
2. Experience in working within a large, global financial services company.
What is in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best - progressive thinking to keep growing and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
* A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits and competitive compensation
* Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
* Opportunities to work with the best in the field
* Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
* Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
* A world-class training program in financial services
* Flexible working options fully supported.
Agency Notice
RBC Group does not accept agency resumés. Please do not forward resumés to our employees, nor any other company location. RBC Group only pay fees to agencies where they have entered into a prior agreement to do so and in any event do not pay fees related to unsolicited resumés. Please contact the Recruitment function for additional details.
Job Skills
Critical Thinking, Cyber Security Management, Decision Making, Detail-Oriented, Information Security Management, Information Technology Security, Interpersonal Relationship Management, IT Security Architecture, Performance Management (PM)
Additional Job Details
Address: 100 BISHOPSGATE:LONDON
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Work hours/week: 35
Employment Type: Full time
Platform: TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS
Job Type: Regular
Pay Type: Salaried
Posted Date: 2025-01-15
Application Deadline: 2025-01-26
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
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