Director of Security Operations, Remote

About the Role

The Director of Security Operations will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the organization's security operations center (SOC) and managing a team of security professionals. This role involves developing and implementing security policies, incident response protocols, and security monitoring strategies. The ideal candidate will be proactive, detail-oriented, and capable of identifying and mitigating security threats to protect the organization's assets, data, and reputation. In this role, you will lead by example of being a highly technical leader who delivers high business impact on multiple projects of increasing dependencies and ambiguity.

Primary Duties

Impact: Balance short and long-term business impact by developing strategies to manage risks, including:

• Security Operations Center (SOC) Oversight
• Incident Response and Threat Management
• Security Monitoring and Threat Intelligence
• Vulnerability Management

Security Policies and Compliance:

• Risk Management
• Anticipate industry AI/AIOps trends to optimize automation, log-ingestion, and threat response-balancing rapid incident resolution with security quality.

People: Develop outstanding teams using a combination of world-class-hiring and direct-timely-actionable feedback to develop security talent.

Execution: Set aggressive yet clear goals and remove all roadblocks for the team to achieve them.

Collaboration: Develop strong relationships and work cross-functionally with many partners across organizations and functions, and as a result, increase the impact of the team’s work.

Company: Work closely with company-wide leaders to drive excellence in our processes and systems that protect patients, our employees, and Aledade as a whole.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in security operations, with at least 5 years in a leadership or management role.
• Proven experience in managing a SOC and leading incident response efforts.
• Strong understanding of security technologies, including SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR, firewalls, and vulnerability management tools.
• Ability to work effectively in high-pressure situations and manage multiple priorities.
• Experience with regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS).

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities

• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a proactive and forward-thinking approach.
• In-depth knowledge of security frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Controls).