Cyber Security Operations Manager

About LEAP

LEAP is the leading provider of Legal Practice Management Solutions in the world and is part of ATI – one of the largest international LegalTech companies. For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvement has kept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, to ‘Help lawyers who help people’. The market-leading software we develop, and support is used by more than 71,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium-sized law firms.

Working alongside our international team of passionate high achievers, you’ll join a fast-growing technology business where things seldom stay the same for long. With more than 1000 smart, caring and ambitious ‘LEAPsters’ working together across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand, you’ll find yourself in good company here.

Meet the Security team

Our Security team protects LEAP’s people, information, infrastructure and applications from an evolving cyber threat landscape. Working closely with internal teams and external partners, we embed practical, fit-for-purpose security practices across the business. The team spans three specialist domains that work closely together to deliver a mature, scalable and enterprise-ready security capability. You’ll be joining an established, supportive group that values collaboration, shared ownership and high standards. We’re passionate about staying ahead of emerging threats, investigating incidents and analysing malware using modern threat intelligence and tools to continuously strengthen LEAP’s security posture and protect what matters most.

What you'll do

LEAP is expanding rapidly into enterprise, government, and highly regulated markets, and we are building a world class security program to support that growth. As the Cyber Security Operations Manager, you will lead LEAP’s global security operations capability, ensuring our cyber security controls, monitoring, and incident response processes are effective, scalable, and embedded across the organisation. You will own the operational delivery of LEAP’s security program across multiple products, entities, and regions. A key focus will be improving security operations through automation, reducing manual processes, and ensuring controls are consistently implemented and monitored. Working closely with Engineering, Development, IT, Product, and Legal, you will help security scale alongside the business while supporting compliance frameworks such as SOC2 and ISO and ensuring audit evidence can be produced efficiently and reliably.

To make this happen, you will look after:

Application Security

• Embed secure development practices across our products, including threat modelling, automated security testing, and penetration testing.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and strengthen the secure SDLC.

Cloud and SaaS Security

• Improve security across our AWS, Azure, and SaaS environments, including access reviews, vendor risk assessments, and secure configuration.
• Work closely with DevOps to integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.

Incident Response

• Lead security incident response and maintain clear playbooks and response processes.
• Build security awareness and training across the organisation.

Governance and Compliance

• Support security frameworks including SOC2 and ISO standards, ensuring controls are implemented and evidence is available for audits.
• Drive automation of evidence collection, risk assessments, and compliance processes.

Security at Scale

• Partner with engineering, IT, and product teams to embed security without slowing delivery.
• Identify opportunities to automate security operations and build a scalable security program as LEAP grows.

What you'll do

• 5–8 years’ experience in cybersecurity, application security, or related engineering roles.
• Strong knowledge of web app & cloud security, OWASP Top 10, and SANS CWE Top 25.
• Experience across firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, DLP, PAM, and endpoint security.
• Certifications such as OSWE, OSCP, CSSLP, CISSP, or CCSP are highly desirable.
• Proven experience in Information Security roles within SaaS, cloud, or technology environments.
• Hands-on experience owning application security programs, and supporting enterprise customer security due diligence.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, SaaS architectures, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience supporting audits, managing evidence, and engaging directly with customers, auditors, and internal stakeholders.
• Prior people leadership experience, or readiness to build and lead a small cyber security team.

You are the type of person who

• Takes ownership of security issues and drives them through to resolution.
• Builds strong, pragmatic relationships across engineering, IT, product, legal, and sales.
• Communicates risk and trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Balances security, compliance, and commercial priorities in decision making.
• Adapts quickly in a fast moving, evolving environment.
• Translates technical security concepts into clear, business focused guidance.

LEAP is an inclusive, people-first company committed to breaking down institutional barriers that keep people from reaching their potential. If you meet some, but not all the requirements above, we encourage you to still submit your application.

Why join LEAP?

• Your work matters. Helping lawyers help people sits at the heart of everything we do. We solve real world problems that improve and support local, everyday law firms. So they can do their best work for the people in the communities they serve.
• Make an impact. You won’t be another ‘cog in the wheel’ here. We give full trust and autonomy for you to be heard, to work on big & complex projects – and to make a real difference.
• Work with a group of authentic, passionate people who love what they do.
• Flexible and hybrid working. We'd like to find this person in Sydney, but we want you to work in a way that suits you and we're open to flexible arrangements that support you.
• Grow your career with us. Our founder Christian Beck has been building legal tech businesses for over 30 years. There are opportunities galore to expand your career based on where your interests lie. We're not afraid to pivot based on market conditions - you will always have the opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and do your best work here.
• Have fun with us. Celebrations. Socials. Sports teams. Access to sailing and yacht events.
• We value your well-being - enjoy an additional paid wellbeing day every year, free gym membership, corporate dental plan and weekly massages in the office.
• Work in a new, beautiful office space – with a catered lunch and breakfast every week, fully stocked kitchen and an on-site barista.
• Access to LEAP Home - a program unique to LEAP to support you in buying your primary residence.

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