Vietnam Silicon

Vietnam Silicon is looking for a strategic and hands-on Head of Cybersecurity to lead our organization’s cybersecurity initiatives. This role is responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive security strategy to protect our digital assets, infrastructure, and data from internal and external threats.

Key Responsibilities

1. Setting cyber security vision, policies, and risk frameworks
2. Managing teams responsible for security operations, engineering, and governance.
3. Overseeing incident response, threat detection, and vulnerability management.
4. Reporting on security risks to executive leadership and board members.
5. Aligning cyber programmes with business continuity and regulatory goals.
6. Leading risk assessments, security audits, and compliance reviews
7. Managing vendor relationships and security tooling selection
8. Driving organisation-wide security awareness and training
9. Representing security during mergers, acquisitions, or system migrations

Requirements

1. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.  
2. 8–12 years of cyber security or IT leadership experience
3. Proven success leading defensive operations at scale
4. Deep knowledge of risk, governance, compliance, and architecture
5. Experience building or scaling cyber security teams and functions
6. Skilled in reporting to boards or executive leadership
7. Familiarity with cloud security, endpoint protection, and network security
8. Ability to define KPIs, tooling strategy, and incident protocols
9. Strong vendor management and budgeting capabilities
10. Confidence handling breaches, audits, and continuity scenarios.