Partner, Cybersecurity
Hut 8 is an energy infrastructure platform that develops and operates power, digital infrastructure, and compute assets. Its platform supports energy-intensive technologies, including AI and Bitcoin mining.
Funding history
About Hut 8
Hut 8 develops, commercializes, and operates an integrated portfolio of power, digital infrastructure, and compute assets. It manages energy assets such as powered land, interconnects, substations, and switchyards; operates purpose-built facilities for energy-intensive applications; and deploys specialized hardware for technologies including AI and Bitcoin mining.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will be Hut 8's senior security leader, owning cybersecurity strategy, architecture, governance, and risk across corporate IT, mining operations, data centers, cloud, and AI/compute environments. You'll build the security program from the ground up, lead incident response, manage the vendor and MSSP ecosystem, and grow an internal security team while advising executives and the board.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience including security leadership such as CISO or equivalent
- Experience building or transforming a security program in a complex, fast-growing, or public company; SOX preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field; master's or CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GIAC preferred
- Strong knowledge of security architecture, cloud, IAM, network, endpoint, data security, and OT
- Hands-on experience with SOC 2, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOX ITGC, PCI audits
- Experience leading SIEM/SOC, EDR, vulnerability management, and incident response
- Experience managing security budgets, vendors, and MSSPs
- Strong leadership and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Define and own enterprise cybersecurity strategy, operating model, roadmap, and security architecture
- Establish security priorities, decision rights, risk tolerances, and success measures
- Advise executive leadership and the board on material risks, incidents, and control maturity
- Establish and govern the security control framework aligned to NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, SOX ITGC, and PCI
- Own the governance, risk, and compliance program including audit readiness and remediation tracking
- Set defense-in-depth architecture across identity, network, endpoint, cloud, SaaS, data, APIs, CI/CD, and OT environments
- Embed security-by-default into architecture review, procurement, and the system development lifecycle
- Build and lead Security Operations including threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response
- Own the identity and access governance program
- Lead cyber incident and breach management end to end
- Manage security vendors and MSSPs
- Establish security awareness, training, and anti-phishing programs
- Recruit, mentor, and grow the internal security team
- Define operating metrics and assess program maturity