Senior Director, Enterprise Security

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

📋 Description

• Lead Delinea’s Enterprise Security initiative and manage the SAE, SOC, and IAM teams.

• Establish direction and hold functional managers accountable for their roadmaps, staffing, and performance metrics.

• Drive the strategy for cross-functional security and prioritize initiatives.

• Provide advisory support to executive leadership regarding business risks related to security.

• Disseminate security best practices throughout the organization.

• Implement and sustain controls that align with compliance and regulatory standards.

• Define roadmaps for security architecture, secure designs, and enhancements to architecture.

• Identify threats and vulnerabilities within the current architecture.

• Collaborate with business units to convert requirements into effective security solutions.

• Oversee proactive monitoring and incident response, including analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery procedures.

• Establish cyber resilience and evaluate readiness for cybersecurity crisis events.

• Define and implement the enterprise IAM roadmap along with a long-term vision.

• Ensure that IAM architecture, compliance enforcement, and identity governance effectively mitigate risks.

• Manage and develop the leadership and staff within the security team.

• Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor risks and assess the effectiveness of the security program.

• Foster relationships with senior leaders and support project and operational objectives through data analysis.

• Report directly to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of the current security landscape and best practices within the industry.

• Proven ability to resolve complex cybersecurity issues that protect enterprises and products using a risk-based approach.

• Demonstrated experience in building and scaling comprehensive Cybersecurity programs.

• Proven capability in creating a multi-team security organization, ideally overseeing architecture, operations, and identity through direct reports.

• Experience managing a SOC function led by a dedicated manager across various time zones.

• Experience supervising IAM capabilities, including MFA, single sign-on, privileged access, certificate management, and secrets management.

• Experience in establishing and/or directing Security Architecture and Engineering, securing endpoints, identity, email, cloud, data, and networks.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT Security, or a related field.

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise security, security operations, or related disciplines.

• 5+ years of experience in senior information security leadership roles.

• Familiarity with GRC frameworks such as ISO27001, SOC2, SOX, FedRAMP, and GDPR.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with strong business acumen and a commercial perspective.

• Minimal travel required (<5%).

• Preferred certifications include CISSP, CISM, or similar credentials.

• Strong grasp of cybersecurity services, frameworks, risk management principles, and industry standards such as NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, and GDPR.

• Effective skills in executive functioning and presentations.

• Ability to innovate while balancing business and security requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity options.

• Performance-based bonus program and role-specific incentive initiatives.

• Healthcare insurance coverage.

• Pension and retirement matching plans.

• Comprehensive life insurance policies.

• Employee assistance programs.

• Generous time off policies.

• Paid holidays recognized by the company.

• Opportunities for meaningful work and career advancement.

• A global and collaborative work environment.