Director of Security Operations

<h1><strong>Director, Security Operations</strong></h1> <h2><strong>Role Overview</strong></h2> <p>The Director of Security Operations leads the organization's day-to-day cybersecurity operations across traditional and AI-enabled environments. Reporting to the CISO, the Director leads Security Operations while partnering closely with the Director of Security Architecture &amp; Engineering.</p> <p>This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring experience implementing and operating security controls as well as leading teams, incidents, and security programs.</p> <h2><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Lead security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, security analytics, vulnerability management, adversary emulation, identity security, and operational resilience.</li> <li>Establish operational priorities, service objectives, metrics, playbooks, and processes based on organizational risk and business needs.</li> <li>Serve as incident commander for significant cybersecurity events and ensure lessons learned drive improvements to controls and operations.</li> <li>Drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted detection, investigation, vulnerability analysis, threat hunting, and response capabilities.</li> <li>Ensure effective security monitoring and response for AI applications, autonomous agents, workloads, and non-human identities.</li> <li>Use automation to reduce manual work and compress detection, analysis, containment, and remediation timelines.</li> <li>Partner with Security Architecture &amp; Engineering to ensure controls are effectively designed, implemented, operationalized, monitored, and validated.</li> <li>Develop security talent and provide the CISO with clear reporting on incidents, exposure, operational performance, risk, and program maturity.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Experience leading Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, IAM, or related cybersecurity functions.</li> <li>Demonstrated hands-on experience implementing and operating security controls across cloud, infrastructure, applications, identity, endpoints, and networks.</li> <li>Strong technical understanding of security analytics, detection engineering, exposure management, adversary emulation, and identity security.</li> <li>Experience leading significant cybersecurity incidents and cross-functional response activities.</li> <li>Experience implementing security automation and AI-assisted operational capabilities.</li> <li>Strong leadership, mentoring, communication, and executive presentation skills.</li> <li>Experience in cloud-native or large-scale distributed environments and familiarity with modern cybersecurity and AI-risk frameworks is preferred.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Backblaze Perks:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Healthcare for family, including dental and vision</li> <li>Competitive compensation and 401K&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> <li>RSU grants for full-time employees&nbsp;</li> <li>ESPP program&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> <li>Flexible vacation policy&nbsp;</li> <li>Maternity &amp; paternity leave&nbsp;</li> <li>MacBook Pro to use for work plus a generous stipend to personalize your&nbsp; workstation&nbsp;</li> <li>Childcare bonus (human children only)&nbsp;</li> <li>Fertility treatment and support&nbsp;</li> <li>Learning &amp; development program&nbsp;</li> <li>Commuter benefits&nbsp;</li> <li>Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.</p> <p>The base pay range for this position is $205,000 - $230,000</p> <p>At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. 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