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Director of Security Operations

Backblaze
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LOCATION

United States · Remote

EXPERIENCE

Not specified

SALARY

$205K - $230K /year

SKILLS REQUIRED

Incident responseSecurity MonitoringThreat HuntingVulnerability Management

Job description

Overview

Lead the day-to-day cybersecurity operations across traditional and AI-enabled environments as a hands-on technical leader, reporting to the CISO and partnering with the Director of Security Architecture & Engineering.

What you'll do

  • Lead security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, security analytics, vulnerability management, adversary emulation, identity security, and operational resilience.
  • Establish operational priorities, service objectives, metrics, playbooks, and processes based on organizational risk and business needs.
  • Serve as incident commander for significant cybersecurity events and ensure lessons learned drive improvements to controls and operations.
  • Drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted detection, investigation, vulnerability analysis, threat hunting, and response capabilities.
  • Ensure effective security monitoring and response for AI applications, autonomous agents, workloads, and non-human identities.
  • Use automation to reduce manual work and compress detection, analysis, containment, and remediation timelines.
  • Partner with Security Architecture & Engineering to ensure controls are effectively designed, implemented, operationalized, monitored, and validated.
  • Develop security talent and provide the CISO with clear reporting on incidents, exposure, operational performance, risk, and program maturity.

What you'll need

  • Experience leading Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, IAM, or related cybersecurity functions.
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience implementing and operating security controls across cloud, infrastructure, applications, identity, endpoints, and networks.
  • Strong technical understanding of security analytics, detection engineering, exposure management, adversary emulation, and identity security.
  • Experience leading significant cybersecurity incidents and cross-functional response activities.
  • Experience implementing security automation and AI-assisted operational capabilities.
  • Strong leadership, mentoring, communication, and executive presentation skills.

Nice to have

  • Experience in cloud-native or large-scale distributed environments.
  • Familiarity with modern cybersecurity and AI-risk frameworks.

Details

  • Location: Remote - US.
  • Base pay range: $205,000 - $230,000.
  • Benefits include healthcare for family (including dental and vision), 401K, RSU grants for full-time employees, ESPP, flexible vacation, maternity and paternity leave, MacBook Pro with workstation stipend, childcare bonus, fertility treatment and support, learning and development program, and commuter benefits.

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Director of Security Operations