Director, IT Security & Compliance
Description
CloudBolt Software () empowers enterprises to automate, govern, and optimize cloud infrastructure at scale.
The Director of IT, Security & Compliance serves as the senior leader responsible for corporate IT, security operations, compliance, technology governance, and operational excellence across the organization. You will lead a senior team spanning DevOps and cloud infrastructure, IT and security/compliance, platform engineering/SRE, and documentation. You will partner closely with executive leadership to strengthen security posture, maintain compliance, drive AI-enabled efficiencies, optimize technology investments, and ensure employees have the tools and support needed to be productive and secure. We are a small team that acts quickly the ideal candidate is comfortable developing long-term technology strategy and equally willing to roll up their sleeves when the situation calls for it.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the organization’s primary security leader and trusted advisor, performing many of the responsibilities typically associated with a CISO while partnering with executive leadership on security strategy and execution.
- Develop, implement, and maintain pragmatic, right-sized security policies, standards, and best practices working with the developers as customers.
- Manage relationships with external vendors, consultants, and auditors.
- Lead all Corporate IT functions supporting a fully remote global workforce.
- Manage identity and access management, endpoint management, collaboration platforms, SaaS applications, and the employee technology lifecycle (onboarding, offboarding, provisioning).
- Establish scalable IT processes that support employee productivity and business continuity, and drive continuous improvement of IT service delivery and employee experience.
- Drive pending infrastructure decisions, including VPN strategy, password management, tooling platform consolidation, and certificate lifecycle automation.
- Partner closely with Engineering and Platform teams to remove technical blockers and improve operational effectiveness, including CI/CD, automation, and cloud platform reliability.
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to eliminate manual processes and operational toil across the organization.
- Evaluate and implement AI-enabled tools that improve productivity, support operations, engineering workflows, security monitoring, and business processes.
- Establish governance and best practices for responsible AI usage within the company.
- Partner with the COO and leadership team to manage IT, infrastructure, security, and cloud-related budgets, including AI tooling spend.
- Monitor and optimize spending across cloud providers, SaaS platforms, security tools, and technology vendors.