Director of Security Operations

Director, Security Operations
Role Overview

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 & 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 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.

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 and familiarity with modern cybersecurity and AI-risk frameworks is preferred.

Backblaze Perks:

- 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

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.

The base pay range for this position is $205,000 - $230,000

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