Head of Security Operations & Engineering - Flutter Functions, Hybrid

Head of Security Operations & Engineering - Flutter Functions, Hybrid This position is open across multiple Flutter UK & Ireland office locations. The benefits and package will be in line with the entity in your location. Your Talent Partner will discuss this in further detail.

Locations:
Cluj-Napoca/ Leeds/ Dublin

Role Overview :

The Head of Security Operations and Engineering is responsible for protecting the organization through the design, build, and operation of scalable, resilient, and intelligence-driven security capabilities. This role leads the teams that detect, respond to, and prevent security threats while also engineering the platforms, tools, and automation that underpin those capabilities.

Sitting at the intersection of strategy and execution, the role ensures that security operations are not only effective in responding to incidents, but continuously improving through engineering excellence, threat intelligence, and data-driven decision-making. It combines real-time defense (e.g., monitoring, detection, incident response) with long-term capability building (e.g., tooling, automation, detection engineering, and platform integration) leaning into the opportunity of Agentic AI for faster analysis, detection & response.

The Head of Security Operations and Engineering partners closely with Security Architecture, Threat Intelligence, Engagement and Engineering teams to ensure that controls are operationalized, detections are meaningful, and response processes are efficient and repeatable. A key focus is reducing mean time to detect and respond (MTTD/MTTR), increasing visibility across the environment, and ensuring the organization can effectively defend against evolving threats.

The role is accountable for ensuring that security operations are proactive, intelligence-led, and tightly integrated with engineering—moving the organization from reactive defense to a mature, adaptive AI-enabled security posture.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Responsible for developing and leading Security Operations and Engineering teams that will secure our global services.

Form an integral part of the Technology Operations leadership team, setting and executing our Cloud Security Strategy.

Work closely with our vendors including AWS, Wiz, Crowdstrike, Cata Networks, Cribl & Splunk to derive as much value from the partnerships as possible.

Explore ways to adopt Agentic AI into our detection and response capabilities to drive pace in our analysis and response practices

Lead and support on incidents and mentor team to be able to manage confidently in incident scenarios

Establish appropriate AI-augmented Risk and Vulnerability Management practices

Liaise with Data protection, Risk and Audit teams, understanding their requirements and ensuring our solutions meet them, as well as other required security compliance and regulatory standards.

Develop our SOC capability to respond at machine speed to AI-based threats

Work closely with other technology teams ensuring alignment of roadmaps and establish Dev Sec Ops  best practices with them.

Engage with other brand Security leaders ensuring knowledge sharing.

Provide training, mentoring, consulting, and knowledge transfer to team members.

Establish appropriate processes/procedures, policies and reporting (including KPIs) for all tooling and systems introduced.

Promote a mentality of continuous improvements, whether through enhancement of services or agentic completion of manual tasks.

Competencies:

Big Thinker:
Constantly explores and analyses future scenarios and possibilities to help Flutter respond to change and shape the future; drives self and others to pursue opportunities that will create sustainable value for Flutter; contributes to the functional and the Flutter strategy, mapping and aligning efforts to strategic imperatives.

Effective Communicator:
Provides clarity on business goals; is effective in all types of communication; adjusts communication style to fit the audience; consistently communicates the mission, vision and values to inspire, energise and motivate others throughout Flutter; ensures others understand how their efforts positively impact the bigger…