Cyber Security Manager

About the Position

Cyber Security Manager

Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.

Part of something bigger, today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants. Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.

We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal, and Belgium.

Your hiring experience matters. Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent, and genuinely supportive. If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

As a Cyber Security Manager at Shine, you will:

• Own, evaluate, and continuously improve our defensive security technology stack - EDR/XDR, DDoS protection, vulnerability management, DLP, and endpoint hardening.
• Ensure robust DDoS protection across our internet-facing and payment-critical services - selecting and managing mitigation solutions (e.g. Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS Shield) validating that protection holds up to the availability expectations regulators place on a payment institution.
• Design, write, and maintain incident response playbooks for our most relevant scenarios aligned with DORA ICT incident-management expectations.
• Plan and facilitate regular tabletop exercises and simulations across technical, operational, and executive stakeholders; capture findings and drive remediation to closure.
• Partner with the SOC Manager to ensure tooling supports detection and response use cases (mapped to MITRE ATT&CK).
• Provide the technical evidence and control assurance the Information Security (GRC) function needs for PCI-DSS, DORA, and ACPR-related obligations.
• Manage security vendor and MSSP relationships, contribute to the security technology roadmap and budget, and translate threat intelligence into concrete control improvements.
• Report on resilience metrics and the effectiveness of deployed controls to security leadership.

📍 Job located in Berlin or Madrid office, with possibility of two remote working days per week.

Requirements

• Hands-on background in technical / engineering security operations, ideally within regulated financial services, payments, or fintech.
• Practical experience deploying and operating EDR/XDR platforms (e.g. CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender) and other core defensive tooling.
• Hands-on experience with DDoS mitigation and edge/CDN security (e.g. Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS Shield/WAF) and an understanding of how to protect high-availability, customer-facing services.
• Demonstrated incident response experience - you have built playbooks and run tabletop exercises, not just read about them.
• Working knowledge of DORA, PCI-DSS, NIS2, and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills, with the ability to bridge technical detail and business risk.
• Fluent English required; German is a strong advantage.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.

Our Recruitment Process

1. A 30' first call with Talent Acquisition to get to know you better and share more about Shine.
2. A 60' interview with your potential lead to discuss your past experiences and the role we are offering.
3. A 30' Interview with our Chief Compliance Officer to dive deeper into the technical aspects.
4. A 60' business case presentation to highlight your skills and give you a hands-on feel for the role.
5. A soft skills interview to see how we can best support your growth at Shine.

Department

Banking & Compliance

Locations

Madrid, Berlin

Contact

Marc Riehle