Sequencing

Sequencing

Director, Security

Remote, US, USA · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 63 days ago
AWSDevOpsCybersecurityPenetration TestingIncident ResponseComplianceJiraConfluenceIntellectual PropertyCadenceFirewallZero TrustHIPAABioinformaticsLeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking

About the role

  • This is the company's first dedicated security leadership hire and a chance to shape the long term security foundation for a platform that handles highly sensitive consumer genomic and health data.
  • Stand up and operationalize the company's incident response program, including severity classification, escalation paths, communications, executive coordination, forensic readiness, and post incident review procedures.
  • Present security posture, organizational risk, compliance status, and security roadmap updates to executive leadership in clear, business oriented language.

Responsibilities

  • What you'll own Own the company's security program end to end, including policies, procedures, playbooks, runbooks, training, governance, and security documentation.
  • Build the governance layer that turns ad hoc security work into a repeatable, measurable, and auditable security program.
  • Effectively manage offensive security workstreams even when the hands on technical work extends beyond the Director's direct technical specialization.
  • Serve as a senior escalation point during security incidents and maintain availability for critical after hours incident response, breach investigation, and executive coordination when necessary.
  • Translate complex security findings into practical actions engineering teams can implement without unnecessarily slowing product velocity.
  • Complete an initial HIPAA and HITECH security review and deliver a prioritized remediation roadmap within the first 45 days.
  • The opportunity Sequencing is hiring a Director of Security to build and lead a modern security program for a rapidly scaling genomics and AI platform.
  • Lead ongoing HIPAA and HITECH compliance review, security gap assessment, and remediation initiatives, while driving SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification efforts from roadmap through audit completion.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for auditors, regulators, customers, and external compliance partners.
  • Build and maintain centralized visibility into company SaaS tools, shadow IT usage, third party integrations, identity and access management, and organizational data exposure risks.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in security engineering, application security, cloud security, security management, or CISO level roles, including 3+ years in a senior leadership or director level position.
  • Proven track record leading SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 certification efforts from planning through successful audit completion.
  • Strong understanding of modern cloud and application security practices across AWS based infrastructure and modern web application environments.
  • Experience operating in fast moving startup or scale up environments with evolving systems, incomplete processes, and rapidly changing priorities.
  • Strong understanding of modern AI security risks, including AI governance, prompt and data leakage risks, AI assisted software development workflows, and developer AI tooling controls.
  • Experience managing SaaS governance, shadow IT risk, vendor security reviews, identity and access lifecycle management, and third party access controls.
  • Experience managing offensive security initiatives, external penetration testing vendors, red team exercises, vulnerability management programs, and remediation prioritization.
  • Strong cross functional leadership skills with the ability to influence Engineering, DevOps, Bioinformatics, Product, and Operations teams without direct authority.
  • Ability to balance strong security standards with startup speed, product velocity, and practical operational realities.

Benefits

  • Your success helps protect the human genome, build customer trust, and make personalized health insights from whole genome sequencing safer and more accessible for everyone.
  • Partner closely with Engineering, DevOps, Bioinformatics, Product, and Operations to embed security into every system that touches customer genomic and health data.

Company info

  • Lead company wide security awareness and training programs covering secure coding, phishing resistance, AI tool usage, handling of sensitive genomic data, and operational security best practices.
  • Reach SOC 2 readiness within 6 months aligned with the company's infrastructure modernization roadmap.
  • Sequencing is hiring a Director of Security to build and lead a modern security program for a rapidly scaling genomics and AI platform.
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