Director of Security Operations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, security analytics, vulnerability management, adversary emulation, identity security, and operational resilience.

• Define operational priorities, service objectives, metrics, playbooks, and processes aligned with organizational risk and business requirements.

• Act as incident commander for major cybersecurity incidents, ensuring that lessons learned are applied to enhance controls and operations.

• Promote the responsible integration of AI-driven detection, investigation, vulnerability analysis, threat hunting, and response capabilities.

• Guarantee effective security monitoring and response for AI applications, autonomous agents, workloads, and non-human identities.

• Utilize automation to decrease manual tasks and shorten detection, analysis, containment, and remediation timelines.

• Collaborate with Security Architecture & Engineering to ensure that controls are well-designed, implemented, operationalized, monitored, and validated.

• Cultivate security talent and provide the CISO with comprehensive reporting on incidents, exposure, operational performance, risk, and program maturity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, IAM, or similar cybersecurity functions.

• Substantial hands-on experience in implementing and managing security controls across cloud environments, infrastructure, applications, identity, endpoints, and networks.

• Strong technical expertise in security analytics, detection engineering, exposure management, adversary emulation, and identity security.

• Experience in managing significant cybersecurity incidents and coordinating cross-functional response efforts.

• Familiarity with implementing security automation and AI-assisted operational capabilities.

• Excellent leadership, mentoring, communication, and executive presentation abilities.

• Experience in cloud-native or extensive distributed environments, along with knowledge of contemporary cybersecurity and AI-risk frameworks, is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Family healthcare coverage, including dental and vision.

• Competitive salary and 401K plan.

• RSU grants available for full-time employees.

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Maternity and paternity leave.

• MacBook Pro provided for work, plus a generous stipend to customize your workstation.

• Childcare bonus (applicable to human children only).

• Support for fertility treatments.

• Learning and development programs available.

• Commuter benefits.

• A culture that promotes a healthy work-life balance.