Virta Health is the leader in diabetes reversal and sustainable weight loss. Discover personalized, nutrition-first care designed for lasting results.
About the role
Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years in security operations, detection and response, or cloud security, including 3+ years leading or mentoring technical security teams
- Hands-on incident response experience: you've worked investigations yourself across logs, endpoints, identity, cloud, and SaaS, and you've led incidents from triage through post-incident review
- Experience writing and maintaining detection rules, ideally in a detection-as-code model, along with a solid understanding of coverage frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK
- Strong scripting or programming skills (e.g., Python, Go) and a track record of building internal tools, integrations, or automation that made a security team faster
- Deep experience owning and tuning security platforms such as SIEM, EDR/XDR, CSPM and SOAR, including onboarding new data sources
- Hands-on cloud security experience, ideally in GCP with containerized workloads
More about this role
Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people.
As our Director of Enterprise Security, you'll have the rare opportunity to build and shape Virta's security operations function. This is a player-coach role: early on, you'll be hands-on in investigations, detections, and tooling alongside the team, while setting the standards, structure, and direction the function will grow into. You'll build a team where analysts run investigations end to end, then turn what they learn into new detections, automation, and context...
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