Submitting more applications increases your chances of landing a job.

Here’s how busy the average job seeker was last month:

Opportunities viewed

Applications submitted

Keep exploring and applying to maximize your chances!

Looking for employers with a proven track record of hiring women?

Click here to explore opportunities now!
We Value Your Feedback

You are invited to participate in a survey designed to help researchers understand how best to match workers to the types of jobs they are searching for

Would You Be Likely to Participate?

If selected, we will contact you via email with further instructions and details about your participation.

You will receive a $7 payout for answering the survey.


User unblocked successfully
Ian O'Toole, Director of Cyber Security - Ciso

Ian O'Toole

Director of Cyber Security - Ciso·Ceer

Saudi Arabia

Master's degree, Cyber Security

Work experience

Total years of experience: 19 years, 9 months

Director of Cyber Security - Ciso

July 2025 - Present

Ceer

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

July 2025 - Present

Head of Cyber Security.
Covering all of IT, OT, IOT, AI,
On prem and Cloud

Company industry:
Automotive Manufacture
Job role:
Information Technology

Cyber Security Architect

July 2024 - July 2025

Ceer

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

July 2024 - July 2025

Head of Cyber Security architecture.

IT & OT

Company industry:
Automotive Manufacture
Job role:
Information Technology

Cyber Security Consultant

May 2024 - September 2024

Mineral Resources

Perth, Australia

May 2024 - September 2024

Cyber Security consultant and advisor role.

Company industry:
Mining & Quarrying
Job role:
Information Technology

Lead Cyber Security Architect and Advisor

September 2021 - May 2024

Hancock Prospecting

Perth, Australia

September 2021 - May 2024

Head of Cyber Advisory and Architecture

Role: Act as an SME and Cyber security advisor to the Hancock business and group. Embed Cyber principles and functions within the Hancock group and projects utilising best practice principles from ISO27001, ASSC Ism and NIST. Design a Cyber security architecture framework across the Hancock group.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Cyber Security Architecture and the development and review of new or current security solutions for Hancock.
- Escalation point for Cyber Security reviews of current and new applications/hardware for wider Hancock Group.
- Cloud SME to include Azure suite, Office 365 suite, Okta, Proofpoint across the wider Hancock Group.

Projects:
- Full Greenfield Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Okta environment from design, security hardening and deployment. Implement the full M365 suite to include CASB, Conditional MFA, DLP, AV/EDR, Intune.
- Design and Implement a PAM solution and enable enhanced security features like proxying.
- Full security review and hardening of Microsoft Azure & O365 environments companies under the Hancock Group.
- OT environment review and design to move to a more secure segregated environment.
- Review and uplift of email security across the Hancock group.
- Design and implement DLP at Hanroy & Atlas.
- Design Cyber Security zoning model for Hancock networks & Systems.

Company industry:
Mining & Quarrying
Job role:
Information Technology

Cyber Security Architect

January 2021 - September 2021

HBF

Perth, Australia

January 2021 - September 2021

Act as an SME and Cyber security advisor to the HBF business and project teams. Embed Cyber principles and functions within HBF and projects utilising best practice principles from ISO27001 and NIST. Contribute to the overall Cyber security architecture development and help identify and mitigate risk. Review and apply Cyber best practice to ensure HBF meet APRA requirements.
Transformation project.
SIEM
CRM - Salesforce
Snowflake
PAM
Cloud migration and security.
Cyber security audits both internal and external, APRA
CMDB
EDR project.
DAM, data de-identification project.
Cyber strategy and framework.

Company industry:
Insurance & TPA
Job role:
Information Technology

Cyber Security Solutions Manager

July 2017 - January 2021

UWA

Australia

July 2017 - January 2021

SIEM Project (Splunk)
Web Gateway and DNS security Project
System hardening guide's and standards
Cloud Security (AWS, Azure, Google)
Vulnerability Management project
Cyber Security Awareness program
Security Visibility project
Security policies and standard design
MFA project
PCI Compliance
AV/Malware Endpoint project
Incident Response
Pentesting program

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Information Technology

Technology Specialist

May 2017 - June 2017

Perth Children's Hospital

Australia

May 2017 - June 2017

Designing and Implement Cisco ISE platform
Hardening standards for Virtual Environment
Security Standards for legacy systems

Company industry:
Medical Hospital
Job role:
Information Technology

IT/IS Manager

July 2015 - April 2017

Cricket Australia

Australia

July 2015 - April 2017

Security lead for CA in Australia.
Design, implementation and maintenance of all IT equipment and software. Design and implementation of new IT security policies and procedures. Project management and implementation. Full network and system design and installation. Documentation and customer training.
Security standards and policies.
Cloud Security - Azure
Encryption
Web & Email Security

Company industry:
Sports & Outdoor Activities
Job role:
Information Technology

IT/IS Manager

May 2012 - June 2015

Psitech

Australia

May 2012 - June 2015

Full configuration, implementation and maintenance of all IT equipment and software across multiple sites using the ITIL framework. Project management and implementation using Prince2 and best industry practices. Full network and system design, configuration and installation to include Security, hardware and software systems. Perform full System and security Audits. Creation and implementation of security and system policies. Full system documentation and customer training. Business development, and the management of client contracts, SLA’s.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

IT/IS Manager

August 2006 - March 2012

Gwen Malone Stenography

Ireland

August 2006 - March 2012

Managing the IT department and numerous off-site project teams. Manage the IT budgets and recruitment. Developing technology strategies, associated budget planning, physical infrastructure models, business continuity/disaster recovery processes, IS security, transition plans, frameworks, reference architectures and standards for the entire technical operations stack. Manage the technical team in the design, implementation and maintenance of all production hardware and software to include numerous servers, network, pc’s, laptops and other IT equipment. Support of all hardware and software requirements of onsite users and numerous offsite users in Ireland and Internationally. Project management and organization-wide software/hardware roll-outs. The use of numerous hardware and network monitoring tools.

Company industry:
Law Firm
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

Griffith College Dublin – Griffith College Cork

September 2008

September 2008

Master's degree, Cyber Security

Ireland

Griffith College Dublin

August 2008

August 2008

Master's degree, IT Security

Ireland

Skills

Storage
Expert
Storage
Expert
Wintel
Expert
Wintel
Expert
IT Management
Expert
IT Management
Expert
IT Security
Expert
IT Security
Expert
Virtualization
Expert
Virtualization
Expert
Networking
Expert
Networking
Expert
Wintel
Expert
Wintel
Expert
Virtualization
Expert
Virtualization
Expert
IT Security
Expert
IT Security
Expert
Disaster Recovery Solutions
Expert
Disaster Recovery Solutions
Expert
IT Management
Expert
IT Management
Expert
Vulnerability Management
Expert
Vulnerability Management
Expert
Cloud Security
Expert
Cloud Security
Expert
SIEM
Expert
SIEM
Expert
Cyber Security
Expert
Cyber Security
Expert
IT Strategy
Expert
IT Strategy
Expert
Storage
Expert
Storage
Expert

Languages

English
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Certifications
ITIL Foundation
VMware VCP 4, VCP5, VCP5.5
Microsoft: MCP, MCSA 2000, MCITP Server 2008, MCP Win 7
Certified Computer Systems Engineer (CCSE)
zScaler Cloud Administrator
Comptia A+, Network+, Security+
National Certificate in Networks and Software Systems.
Cisco CCNA
Connectwise System Engineer

Training
SABSA Foundation
SABSA
Jan 2022
TOGAF
UWA
Apr 2019
Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
Splunk
Mar 2018
Splunk Enterprise System Administration
Splunk
Mar 2018
Splunk Fundamentals 2
Splunk
Jan 2018
Splunk Fundamentals 1
Splunk
Jan 2018
AUWW135 Azure Infrastructure & Architecture Course
Microsoft
Nov 2016

Hobbies

  • Scuba Diving
    Padi