About us
Ascertra operates under the umbrella of the Vela Software Group, a division of Constellation Software Inc. - a world leader in acquiring, managing, and growing software companies that are essential to their industries.
Ascertra's product portfolio includes leading solutions such as Proarc, Coreworx, and Mpower, each addressing critical challenges and risks related to managing information and resources across complex capital projects and asset operations.
Ascertra customers use our software to manage the volumes of information and processes that go along with the planning, engineering, construction, and operation of complex capital projects, such as offshore oil rigs, refineries, offshore wind farms, and power generation plants - and that makes us proud.
About the role
The Head of Cyber and IT is a strategic and operational leader responsible for overseeing both Cloud Operations and Internal IT Management. This role ensures the secure, scalable, and efficient infrastructure necessary to support the company's SaaS platforms and internal teams. The position bridges cybersecurity, cloud reliability, and IT service delivery, playing a crucial role in enabling growth and compliance in a global environment.
In this role, the Head of Cyber and IT will manage cloud infrastructure to ensure availability, scalability, and performance. The role also involves ensuring compliance with security standards, leading incident response and vulnerability management, and overseeing internal IT support and enterprise system administration. Additionally, the position requires building and leading a scalable team, aligning with DevOps on infrastructure maturity and security posture, and managing vendor and license agreements.
Requirement Cloud Operations
- Oversee cloud infrastructure (e.g. Azure and Oracle Cloud) for availability, scalability, and performance.
- Manage CloudOps practices including monitoring and automation.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to support secure and reliable deployments.
- Provision, support & maintain required cloud services for development, test and QA.
- Implement cloud cost optimization strategies.
Cybersecurity
- Ensure compliance with security standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR) and internal policies and procedures for cloud and IT environments.
- Lead incident response, vulnerability management, and threat detection using SIEM tools, MDR and antivirus platforms.
- Secure and implement policies and procedures for disaster recovery and business continuity.
- Work with the CTO and the rest of the executive team to embed security into all operations (DevSecOps).
IT Management
- Lead internal IT support, device management, enterprise system administration and SaaS tooling.
- Manage identity and access controls (IAM), endpoint security, and network infrastructure (including physical and virtual servers and storage systems).
- Find, implement, and operationalize hardware environment improvements through a continual process.
- Develop and enforce IT policies, onboarding/offboarding procedures, and asset tracking.
Leadership & Strategy
- Build and lead a small but scalable team across IT and Cloud Operations.
- Align with DevOps on roadmaps for infrastructure maturity and security posture.
- Vendor and license management.
- Lead audit and compliance initiatives.
- Alignment and coordination with Head Office (Carina) IT.
Experience
- 10+ years in IT operations, cloud infrastructure, or cybersecurity roles.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure and Oracle) and DevOps tools.
- Experience managing IT systems in a fast-paced SaaS environment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar, but long and relevant work experience may compensate for lack of formal education.
- Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, expert level Azure, or similar are a plus.
- Familiarity with security frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, FedRAMP).
Competencies
- Advanced knowledge of cyber security.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration and mentoring skills.
