AKASA
IT Security Operations Engineer
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$190kDetected 27 days ago
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About the role
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives in startup environments and wants to join a small but mighty team and have immediate impact.
- AKASA is a fast-paced startup environment, and we look for people who are agile, organized, and have an ownership mindset.
- This is a hybrid position that requires 2+ days a week in our South San Francisco HQ.
Responsibilities
- Implement and tune PHI Data Loss Prevention.
- Build detections that catch real PHI exposure with minimal false positives, and partner with stakeholders to remediate findings.
- Maintain Okta (OIE policies, MFA, device trust, geo controls, lifecycle, SCIM/group push) and Google Workspace (context-aware access, DLP, alert center, drive sharing, admin hygiene) against documented baselines.
- Build reporting that produces the metrics leadership and auditors actually need, and run role-based security awareness training.
- Lead incident response. Maintain runbooks, join the on-call rotation, and lead investigations involving SaaS account compromise and PHI exposure.
- Support compliance at the source. Automate HITRUST, HIPAA, and SOC 2 evidence collection at the tool level rather than collecting screenshots after the fact.
- Maintain living documentation. Keep configurations, runbooks, and procedures current so a teammate can operate the system without you.
Requirements
- 4+ years in security operations, IT security, or a closely related role
- Production experience reviewing and configuring security settings in Okta (or an equivalent IdP) and Google Workspace at meaningful scale
- Experience with AI/ML-driven email security tooling or modern SEGs (Abnormal, Material, Sublime, Proofpoint, Mimecast)
- Comfort writing scripts and small services (Python, Go, or TypeScript) to automate repetitive work and integrate APIs
- Working knowledge of at least one compliance framework relevant to our environment: HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, or ISO 27001
- You don't wait for a ticket to act on a problem you can solve, and you take a project from "idea" to "in production" without needing to be project-managed through it.
- Familiarity with Terraform, especially for identity and SaaS configuration
- Experience with Mac fleet management (Kandji, Jamf) and modern device trust (Okta Device Trust, SecureW2, EAP-TLS)
- Experience integrating LLM or AI tooling into a security workflow (triage, summarization, evidence collection)
Compensation
- Based on geo, market data, and other factors, the salary range for this position is $150,000 - $190,000 + Equity.
- However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Expansive coverage for health, dental, and vision
- Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Generous parental leave policy
- Full employee coverage for life insurance
- Home office stipend
- Cell phone/internet reimbursement
- Commuting benefits
- Based on geo, market data, and other factors, the salary range for this position is $150,000 - $190,000 + Equity.
- If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at recruiting@akasa.com.
- At AKASA, our mission is to build the future of healthcare with AI.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer and we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is an imperative.
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