Head of Security Operations & AI‑Driven Response

Backblaze External Website; United States; Remote; USD 205,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MacBook Pro to use for work

Generous workstation stipend

Healthcare - family including dental &

RSU grants for full‑time employees

ESPP program

Flexible vacation policy

Maternity & paternity leave

Childcare bonus (human children only)

Fertility treatment and support

Culture supporting healthy work-life

Job summary

Backblaze is seeking a Director of Security Operations to lead day-to-day cybersecurity operations across traditional and AI-enabled environments. Reporting to the CISO, this hands-on technical leadership role requires experience implementing and operating security controls as well as guiding teams, incidents, and security programs.

Key responsibilities include leading monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability management, and automation; establishing priorities and playbooks;

Qualifications

• Experience leading Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, IAM, or related cybersecurity functions.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, analytics, vulnerability management, emulation, identity security, and resilience.
• Establish priorities, objectives, metrics, playbooks, and processes based on risk and business needs.
• Serve as incident commander for major cybersecurity events; drive lessons learned into improvements.
• Drive AI-assisted detection, investigation, vulnerability analysis, threat hunting, and response capabilities.
• Ensure effective monitoring and response for AI apps, autonomous agents, workloads, and non-human identities.
• Use automation to reduce manual work and shorten timelines for detection, analysis, containment, and remediation.
• Partner with Security Architecture & Engineering to ensure controls are designed, implemented, operationalized, monitored, and validated.
• Develop security talent and provide reporting on incidents, exposure, performance, risk, and maturity.

Skills

Security Operations

Incident Response

Detection Engineering

Vulnerability Management

IAM

Cloud / Infra Security

Job description

Backblaze is seeking a Director of Security Operations to lead day-to-day cybersecurity operations across traditional and AI-enabled environments. Reporting to the CISO, this hands-on technical leadership role requires experience implementing and operating security controls as well as guiding teams, incidents, and security programs.

Key responsibilities include leading monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability management, and automation; establishing priorities and playbooks;