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Director of Security Operations

Backblaze

Remote · United States$17,083–19,167 gross/mofull-timeBackblaze Careers

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. Backblaze is seeking a highly analytical, systems-oriented Director of Security Operations to drive the planning, forecasting, deployment, and optimization of hardware infrastructure across our global cloud storage platform.

Responsibilities

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

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    Head
    Posted
    2 Sept 2026
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