Meet the team
Jaimy shares her story
Who are you and what do you do at Northwave?
Hi, I am Jaimy and I work at Northwave as the Red Team Manager.
How do you describe your job to your family/friends?
As the Red Team Manager I’m responsible for guiding the ethical hackers professionally in their journeys. We have around 17 plus ethical hackers who test customers upon request and I try to manage everything around it together with my team lead and my operational lead.
I guide them through their career and challenge them, in their needs and achievements. I do not ask the questions like, where do you see yourself in 5 years. I want to know how I can help them to be the best they can be now and whenever. I think that makes me come to work every day with a smile on my face. I think the passion and the drive to become the most trusted partner in the services of the red team is my current challenge.
When did you become part of the Northwave team, and what background equipped you for your current position?
I started in January 2022 as a team lead within the Blue Team and then since August last year I started this manager role. Before that, I did 15 years at the Dutch army and I always was in a leadership role and worked with tech people, which needs a different kind of leadership, as there brain and needs are wired differently.
The most important thing for this position is that you know that these people are very good at what they do, so they are very good at their job of testing and need support in other areas like soft skills. To really aid into their needs, not everybody in the same way, but everybodys own unique design, is something every manager or leader should adjust to, to enhance them and in the core, the team.
So what you need is people skills, creativity, a little bit of nerdiness and the ability to adapt to every human design possible
What is your impression of your Northwave colleagues so far?
I mean, how do you describe a feeling I always say?
I think the biggest thing is that everybody always thinks you work with technical people, within a cyber security job. And because we have more than only the bytes part, so we also have business and behavior, it gives you different peers.
So in my case, I am a manager and it's sometimes nice to just speak with peers that are not like from the bytes department. So they have a less technical mindset.
For instance, I talk to the psychologist who also is a manager who has a different mindset on doing things that you're doing or you talk to the to the super consultant that has a different mindset on the customer itself. And I think what it comes down to is that we all want to be a Northwaver, to support Stevens dream, in which you have the freedom to make your own dreams reality, because we are working on that dream together.
And because there are no investors, for me that's very important, we can all live that dream instead of just having an eye on the money. It´s not all about the money, It's also about TLC, as we always say in the Red Team: tender, love and care.
What do you do outside of work?
The biggest thing I am doing right now is training for a marathon together with my boyfriend we will take part with a team of Northwavers here in the Netherlands.
For my mental health I ride horses and to become better in my job, I’m studying the blueprints of people through the knowledge of Human Design.
And of course, I love gaming when I want to break stuff after a long day of work.
What do Northwavers have in common?
Definitely the willpower to make the world a more cyber safe place.
