IT and Cybersecurity Manager

At Bitfount our goal is to make the world’s intractable data interactable. 

We're building a missing piece of global infrastructure: a secure network to enable organisations to send algorithms to data. This means they can share the benefits of their data with each other, without having to go through the painful and risky process of moving it around, without compromising its privacy, and without even needing to expose any raw data.

Right now, we’re focused on using our platform to help solve the problem of clinical trial recruitment in the Healthcare space. We’re enabling privacy-preserving collaboration between healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies, which will remove a major friction point in the process, and help ensure critical medicines make it through trials and into the hands of those who need them much sooner.

Learn more about how we work at bitfount.com/company/careers

🎭The role

Bitfount is looking for a motivated, experienced IT and Cybersecurity Manager as our first hire in this domain. The role will involve organisational IT management, product security and compliance work, as well as liaising with our customer’s IT teams when needed.

You should have solid experience in IT management or a cybersecurity role, as well as strong regulatory and process management knowledge. You should be happy to work with all teams of our diverse company, helping them work more efficiently and effectively and discussing the security aspects of our product.

📋Your work will include

• Managing employee onboarding/offboarding access and permissions to the organisation’s devices and accounts

• Building out processes/documentation for IT and Security

• Overseeing security and cost management of Bifount’s suppliers

• Contribute to product security and compliance work, namely planning and following up on external pen tests

• Oversee customer device management and interact with our customers’ IT teams when needed

• User managed conditional endpoint privilege management

🏖️What we offer

• Compensation package

  • Salary based on experience and market rate

  • Share options

• Flexible work and tools

  • Hybrid Working policy - 1 day in our lovely Shoreditch office - Fora Montacute Yards

  • A personal budget for any equipment you need to do your job

• Holidays and family time

  • 25 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays - please use them all!

  • Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave

• Learning and development

  • Personal learning budget to use on books, courses, conferences and more

• Health & Wellbeing

  • Private Medical Insurance including optical, dental and mental health.

  • Cycle to work scheme

• Community

  • Regular (optional) team and company events in and out of the office

  • Lunch on Bitfount once a week in the office

Bitfount is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

Please note: all successful applicants will be subject to a DBS reference check in line with industry norms.

🌈You may be fit for this role if you

Must haves:

• 5+ years in IT management, with at least 3 years in a cybersecurity-focused role.

• Strong understanding of network security, firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection/prevention systems, encryption technologies, and endpoint security.

• Experience with Windows and Apple device management platforms, ideally InTune and JAMF.

• Working knowledge of relevant cybersecurity standards, frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001) and regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to be customer facing, as well as collaborate across teams and present technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience supporting internal and external audits.

• Some knowledge of Microsoft products & licensing.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to think critically under pressure.

Nice to haves:

• Experience improving organisational policies and processes.

• Experience with Vanta or another cloud-age security and compliance product.

• Experience informing leadership decisions with IT cost management and budgeting input.

The interview process:

• Getting to know you: 30 minute chat with our People and Operations manager to talk about your experience and the role.

• Technical Interview: 60 minute technical interview with an engineer and our Quality and Regulatory Affairs Manager, where we’ll cover your technical and regulatory knowledge.

• Final interview: 60 minute chat with a member of our Senior Leadership Team about your prior accomplishments and the challenges you’ve faced in your career.

• Offer call 🎉