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Offensive Security Team Lead
Why We Have This Role
In today's dynamically evolving cybersecurity landscape, offensive security is not just a luxury; it's a necessity for safeguarding our organization against sophisticated threats. The Offensive Security Team Lead is a vital role, tasked with pioneering our proactive security strategies through advanced penetration testing, threat modeling, and ongoing vulnerability assessments. This position holds significant influence over our security posture and our ability to outsmart adversaries, ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of our systems and data.
How You'll Find Success
- Strategic Visionary: You bring a deep understanding of offensive security principles and methodologies, proactively identifying and addressing potential threats. You will shape the offensive security strategy, ensuring it aligns with the organization's objectives and overall security framework.
- Technical Innovator: Your dedication to continuous improvement drives you to evaluate and implement advanced offensive security technologies and practices. You will ensure our security measures remain robust against evolving threats and align with industry best practices.
- Collaborative Leader: You will foster partnerships across departments, advocating for offensive security best practices. By nurturing collaboration, you will build an informed environment focused on a strong security posture and resilience against breaches.
- Resilient and Adaptive: You thrive in a dynamic environment, effectively managing complex offensive security projects. Your skill in guiding cross-functional teams through challenges and changes will be invaluable as you navigate the fast-evolving cybersecurity landscape.
How You'll Grow
- Shape Industry Standards: Engage in industry forums, white papers, and collaborative initiatives to help define the future of offensive security practices.
- Executive Presence: Increase your visibility and involvement in strategic decision-making at the executive level, enhancing your communication and influence skills.
- Expand Your Leadership Toolkit: As a thought leader in offensive security, you will mentor and develop the skills of emerging talents within your team, building a knowledgeable and capable workforce.
- Complex Problem-Solving: Address significant security challenges that will enhance your critical thinking, analytical, and strategic planning skills.
Things You'll Do
- Drive Offensive Security Innovation: Lead initiatives to research, assess, and implement cutting-edge offensive security tools and techniques that enhance our penetration testing, threat hunting, and vulnerability assessment practices.
- Guide Offensive Security Operations: Oversee the daily management and execution of offensive security projects, ensuring adherence to security protocols, ethical standards, and operational efficiency.
- Shape Security Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive offensive security strategy that aligns with the organization's risk profile and overall business objectives, ensuring proactive measures are in place against potential threats.
- Manage Complex Projects: Oversee and coordinate large-scale offensive security initiatives, ensuring timely delivery while proactively identifying and mitigating risks, fostering a culture of agility within teams.
- Foster a Culture of Excellence: Create an environment that encourages knowledge sharing, collaboration, and continuous learning. You will mentor team members, guiding them in their professional development and enhancing our collective offensive security capabilities. Your contributions will strengthen our high-performing team, dedicated to achieving security excellence.
What We're Looking For On Your Resume
While we value the wealth of experience, we put more emphasis on your capability and the outcomes you've produced. For this role, these elements are particularly important:
- Extensive Security Expertise: 8+ years of experience in offensive security, including penetration testing, threat analysis, and vulnerability management, with a proven track record of designing and implementing effective security measures.
- Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of security testing tools (e.g., Metasploit, Burp Suite, Nmap), methodologies, and frameworks. Familiarity with security standards and compliance regulations is a plus.
- Demonstrated Initiative Leadership: Proven experience leading large-scale offensive security initiatives and coordinating cross-functional teams to align diverse stakeholders toward common security objectives; this includes successfully implementing assessments that enhance security posture and organizational resilience.
- Strategic Mindset: Ability to translate offensive security challenges into actionable strategies that integrate with business goals and risk management frameworks.
- Collaboration & Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders while building constructive partnerships across the organization.
Remember, it's not about how many years you've worked; it's about what you've achieved during that time that counts.
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.
What You Should Know About This Team
- Innovation at Our Core: Our Security Engineering team embraces change and thrives on solving complex challenges. We value experimentation, continuous learning, and push the boundaries of conventional security practices.
- Collaborative Environment: We believe in the power of teamwork and foster open communication across the team and the wider organization. Your ideas will be heard, and your collaboration will be essential.
- Data-Driven Approach: We rely on data-driven insights to inform our security strategies, measure effectiveness, and continuously improve our posture.
- Growth Mindset: We are committed to your professional development. You'll have opportunities to expand your expertise, contribute to high-visibility projects, and advance your career in cybersecurity.
Joining our team means stepping into a role that's vital, challenging, and deeply linked to Qualtrics' aim of reshaping industries by harnessing the power of Experience Management and AI.
Our Team's Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Annual Leave: 20 or 26 annual leave days per annum plus an additional day for each year of service (to a max of 5).
- Private Medical Insurance- Luxmed health & dental cover for you and your dependants.
- Commuter Assistance- Up to the value of 80 PLN net a month for public transport.
- Savings Plan- Two company saving plans provided by Nationale Nederlanden: Employee Capital Plan (PPK) & Employee Saving Plan (PPO).
- QED PROGRAM- Qualtrics Engineer Development (QED) program: support, engineering learning activities up to 10% of engineering work time each quarter.
- Wellness- Up to the value of 800PLN gross per quarter can be reimbursed for a variety of wellness activities via our dedicated platform Twic.
- A choice of Multispot cards available.
- Our employee assistance program with Unum provides counselling and wellbeing support to all employees.
- Experience bonus- 7000 PLN gross per annum. Qualtrics experience bonus is a program designed to provide experiences to our employees they might not otherwise have.
- Group Life & Income Protection Insurance.
- Glasses/Contact lenses Reimbursement.
- Free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and drinks for everyone in the office.
- Tax-deductible expenses (up to 75% depending on role).
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
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Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.
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