Director of Security Operations
Backblaze · Remote - US
About this role
## Director of Security Operations ### Role Overview Lead the organization's day-to-day cybersecurity operations across traditional and AI-enabled environments. Reporting to the CISO, you'll lead Security Operations while partnering closely with the Director of Security Architecture & Engineering. This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring experience implementing and operating security controls as well as leading teams, incidents, and security programs. ### Key Responsibilities - 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 drive improvements from lessons learned - 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 clear reporting on incidents, exposure, operational performance, risk, and program maturity ### Qualifications - 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 - Experience in cloud-native or large-scale distributed environments preferred ### Compensation & Benefits **Base Pay Range:** $205,000 - $230,000 **Benefits Include:** - Healthcare (medical, dental, vision) - Competitive 401K with RSU grants - ESPP program - Flexible vacation policy - Parental leave & fertility support - MacBook Pro + workstation stipend - Childcare bonus - Learning & development program - Commuter benefits - Culture supporting work-life balance **Equal Opportunity Employer** - Backblaze is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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