Cybersecurity Lead (Remote in Ireland)

Role Type and Location

• Remote role – located full time in Ireland 
• Occasional Travel may be required to our offices

Eligibility to work

• Applicants must be currently living in Ireland full time 
• Regrettably we can’t offer Visa/work sponsorship for this role

About the role 

At Deciphex, we’re on a mission to transform pathology with AI. Our teams span labs, offices and home setups across Ireland, the UK, EU and USA – and as we scale fast, our internal security needs to move even faster. That’s where you come in.

This isn’t a role where you’re buried in routine. It’s hands-on, high-impact work across the full spectrum of cyber security. 

You’ll be the person spotting risks, building improvements from scratch, enhancing what’s already there, and keeping pace with the constant shift of the cyber security landscape.

For you it's an opportunity to shape the DNA of Cyber Security for our internal IT infrastructure - protecting our people, systems and data across regions.

This includes Deciphex and our groups (Patholytix and Diagnexia) 

Why this role matters

• Tangible impact: Your work secures the internal cyber security foundation that lets us deliver life-changing outcomes for patients. 
• Career Development: This is your opportunity to step in and own an internal Cyber Security arena. 
• Apply technical skills: Identify, design, plan and implement real changes. You're not not just making recommendations. You're delivering impactful change. 
• Autonomy: If you see something that can be better, you’re the one making things happen
• Complexity at pace: You’ll work across multiple parallel internal cyber security projects, from tightening access controls to building secure cloud environments
• Real autonomy: You create the roadmap, roll it out, and see the impact
  Constant learning – fast growth and technical variety means you’ll always be sharpening your skills

Responsibilities:

• You will be our first internal cyber security hire. So this is an individual contributor hand on role. You'll own and  drive multiple parallel Cyber Security  projects for our Internal IT Infrastructure 

Technical Infrastructure Security

You’ll apply your skills in:

• Deploying and managing tools like firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM and endpoint protection
• Securing Google Workspace, AWS and cloud services across our global infrastructure
• Hardening both cloud and on-prem systems to keep the organisation safe
  

Employee & Endpoint Security

You’ll get to use your skills in:

• Protecting devices, access and remote connections for a global workforce
• Rolling out and managing EDR solutions company-wide
• Owning IAM and SSO to keep systems secure and seamless for employees
  

Security Operations & Automation

For you this means:

• Building automation to speed up monitoring, threat hunting and incident response
• Leading vulnerability testing, pen testing and simulations
  Prioritising and driving risk remediation, while keeping tools and defences up to date
• Working with IT to ensure every new app and tool is deployed securely
  

Physical Security Support

You’ll apply your skills in:

• Supporting office and lab security, from networks to data storage
• Helping design secure architectures across hybrid and multi-site environments
  

Product Security Support

For you this means:

• Partnering with product teams on compliance (ISO 27001) and security reviews
• Contributing to customer confidence by supporting secure design and architecture
• Collaborate across teams – IT, engineering, labs, leadership – to drive internal security changes