Director of Security Operations
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Director of Security Operations leading Backblaze’s cybersecurity monitoring, incident response, and vulnerability programs. Driving AI-assisted defenses, automation, and operational resilience across cloud and distributed environments.
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 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
Requirements:
- 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 and familiarity with modern cybersecurity and AI-risk frameworks is preferred
Benefits:
- Healthcare for family, including dental and vision
- Competitive compensation and 401K
- RSU grants for full-time employees
- ESPP program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Maternity & paternity leave
- MacBook Pro to use for work plus a generous stipend to personalize your workstation
- Childcare bonus (human children only)
- Fertility treatment and support
- Learning & development program
- Commuter benefits
- Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance
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