Deputy CISO (Fully Remote)

Ethos; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethos, a leading life insurance technology company, is seeking a Senior Security Leader in the United States to partner with the CISO in defining strategy, roadmaps, and priorities. You will act as deputy, representing security leadership to executives and the board, and you will build, mentor, and lead security engineers and architects to raise the technical bar across the function.

You will provide hands-on security architecture reviews across cloud platforms, applications, APIs, and

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CISO to define and execute security strategy, roadmap, and priorities.
• Act as deputy for the CISO; represent security leadership to executives and board.
• Build, mentor, and lead security engineers and architects.
• Provide hands-on technical review of security architecture across cloud platforms, applications, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Lead threat modeling and architecture reviews with engineering teams.
• Drive secure-by-design in SDLC and CI/CD with DevOps and engineering leadership.
• Ground security priorities in sound technical judgment across the organization.
• Communicate risk clearly to non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Represent security credibly in cross-functional forums with hands-on expertise.

Job description

• Partner with the CISO to define and execute the security strategy, roadmap, and priorities across the organization.
• Act as a deputy and escalation point for the CISO, representing security leadership in their absence, including with executives and the board when needed.
• Build, mentor, and lead security engineers and architects, raising the technical bar across the function.

Technical Architecture & Engineering Oversight:

• Provide hands-on technical review of security architecture across cloud platforms, applications, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Lead threat modeling and architecture reviews for major systems and new initiatives, directly engaging with engineering and platform teams.
• Drive secure-by-design practices into the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines, working alongside DevOps and engineering leadership.

Cross-Functional Partnership:

• Ensure security priorities and policies are grounded in sound technical judgment, working closely with all parts of the security organization.
• Communicate technical risk clearly to non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Represent the security function credibly in cross-functional forums, backed by hands-on technical expertise.

Ethos

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. The company is transforming the life insurance experience through a technology platform that makes coverage instant, accessible, and easy to obtain without medical exams.