Senior Director Information Security
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 18, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 10, 2026.
Join our team as a Senior Director of Information Security, where you will play a crucial role in maturing our scalable, business-aligned security program. You will partner closely with various groups, including product development, legal, compliance, and senior leadership, to ensure security enables innovation while effectively managing cyber risk. Your responsibilities will include overseeing platform security, application security, incident response, compliance automation, and third-party risk management. You will also lead a high-performing security team and promote a culture of accountability, innovation, and operational excellence.
Missions
- Maturer a scalable, business-aligned security program supporting a diverse portfolio of SaaS products.
- Partner closely with multiple groups to ensure security enables innovation while effectively managing cyber risk.
- Lead enterprise incident response, digital forensics, root cause analysis, and executive crisis communications.
Profil recherché
- The ideal candidate is an experienced security leader capable of balancing strategic planning with operational execution in a fast-paced, acquisition-driven SaaS organization- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience)
- Proven track record building or modernizing SIEM/SOAR pipelines, automated detection engineering, and incident response operations
- Demonstrated hands-on engineering background in AWS cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and container orchestration (ECS, EKS, Docker)
- 6+ years of direct people leadership experience leading multi-disciplinary teams (Architecture, SecOps, IR, GRC) in high-growth, public SaaS or enterprise technology companies
- 12+ years of progressive leadership with significant focus across multiple information security domains, including cloud security, and software platform security, security strategy, architecture, engineering, controls, testing, vulnerability management, incident response, and cyber resiliency
- Direct experience designing and executing continuous compliance programs under SOX 404(b), HIPAA, PCI DSS, or SEC reporting frameworks
- Exceptional ability to translate complex security risks into clear business metrics (MTTD, MTTR, exposure burn-down) for C-suite executives and Board Audit Committees
- Strong collaborative acumen to lead through influence in a decentralized, multi-business unit operating model
- Strong knowledge of or leading enterprise security architecture, building and maturing security GRC programs, and deep knowledge of cyber threat landscapes, attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
- Experience leading security due diligence and post-merger integration for high-volume M&A activity
- Recognized security and architecture credentials (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CISA, GMON, CCSP, AWS Certified Security Specialty)
- Direct experience with modern security tools: Information Asset Inventory systems, SIEM tools, Elastic Cloud, Torq SOAR, CrowdStrike, EDR/MDR/XDR, Okta, Netskope, AWS Secrets Manager, PAM, TruffleHog, and Lumos AI
- Experience working with SaaS software development and product teams
- Experience working with distributed and remote team environments