About Accelerant Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers.
About the role
The Director, Security Operations owns the high-judgment security work and is accountable for results in five areas. • Lead security due diligence and post-close integration assessments as deal volume grows. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Candidates typically bring 6 to 9 years of security engineering experience
- Breadth across cloud security, network security and detection engineering, with depth in Azure and Microsoft Sentinel
- Experience leading incident response for technical incidents, including post-incident reviews
- Experience assessing the security of acquisitions
- Familiarity with modern identity and authentication, including passkeys and privileged access
- Experience hiring, line-managing and developing security engineers
More about this role
Accelerant is hiring a Director, Security Operations : a senior team lead who owns the work that calls for security judgment and will report directly to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This is a senior, hands-on role: you set technical direction for the security operations team, stay close to the work, and act as the CISO’s trusted deputy for technical security and security operations, including changes in the threat landscape, vulnerabilities and incidents.
You are responsible for the strategic direction of our technical security operations, controls and processes. That includes assessing the security of mergers and acquisitions, owning the penetration test cycle, coordinating purple team exercises and SOC coordination, and acting as the technical expert for projects. You’ll have the autonomy to drive technical initiatives from concept to delivery.
The Director, Security Operations owns the high-judgment security work and is accountable for results in five areas.
M&A security
• Lead security due diligence and post-close integration assessments as deal volume grows.
• Build and maintain a repeatable integration playbook: assessment checklist, risk scoring,...
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