Director of Equipment Management Operations

About Backblaze

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.
Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.
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.

The Director of Security Operations leads the organizations day-to-day cybersecurity operations across traditional and AI-enabled environments. Reporting to the CISO, the Director leads Security Operations while partnering closely with the Director of Security Architecture & Engineering.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring experience implementing and operating security controls as well as leading teams, incidents, and security programs.
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.
Experience leading Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, IAM, or related cybersecurity functions.
Demonstrated 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 implementing security automation and AI-assisted operational capabilities.
Experience in cloud-native or large-scale distributed environments and familiarity with modern cybersecurity and AI-risk frameworks is preferred.
Healthcare for family, including dental and vision
RSU grants for full-time employees
Flexible vacation policy
Childcare bonus (human children only)
Fertility treatment and support
Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries, but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing.

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