Director, Information Security - Security Engineering
Recursion
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Posted:
August 23, 2023
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Onsite
About the position
Lead a team in developing and implementing security standards for IT and Cloud Infrastructure, as well as core software products. Ensure security and privacy by design across the technology stack. Participate in efforts to achieve certifications and attestations that demonstrate assurance internally and externally. Collaborate with internal and external partners to prioritize ongoing security improvements. Join a growing IT and Information Security team focused on enabling Recursion's mission to decode biology through world-class technology services. Convey security concepts to non-technical audiences and have hands-on technical experience in security architecture/engineering.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team that develops and implements standards for Security across IT and Cloud Infrastructure and core software products
- Ensure security & privacy by design across the technology stack
- Participate in organizational efforts to accomplish SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001 and other certifications and attestations
- Perform Threat modeling and explore new security threats
- Develop strong partnerships within and outside the Technology organization to prioritize ongoing security improvements
- Convey security concepts to non-technical audiences
- Have hands-on Technical experience playing Security Architecture/Engineering roles
- Understand system vulnerabilities, attack surfaces, attack vectors, and tactics used in modern cyber attacks
- Stay updated with new and prevalent technologies and IT systems
- Have at least 10 years of relevant IT/Product Security experience and two or more relevant certifications
- Assess cloud security and lead cross-functional project teams
- Have strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
- Experience leading security projects through influence, collaboration, and coalition-building
- Understand and own every important detail as second nature
Requirements
- Lead a team that develops and implements standards for Security across IT and Cloud Infrastructure and core software products
- Ensure security & privacy by design across the technology stack
- Participate in organizational efforts to accomplish SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001 and other certifications and attestations
- Perform Threat modeling and explore new security threats
- Develop strong partnerships within and outside the Technology organization to prioritize ongoing security improvements
- Convey security concepts to non-technical audiences
- Have hands-on Technical experience playing Security Architecture/Engineering roles
- Understand system vulnerabilities, attack surfaces, attack vectors, and tactics used in modern cyber attacks
- Ongoing familiarity with new and prevalent technologies and IT systems
- At least 10 years of relevant IT/Product Security experience and two or more relevant certifications
- Assess cloud security and lead cross-functional project teams
- Have strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
- Experience leading security projects through influence, collaboration, and coalition-building
- Understand and own every important detail as second nature
Benefits
- Project through influence, collaboration, and coalition-building
- Comfortable in situations requiring constrained creativity
- Understand and own every important detail
- We Care: Caring about drug candidates, Recursionauts, their families, each other, communities, patients, and their loved ones
- We Learn: Learning from diverse perspectives and failure
- We Deliver: Expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high with urgency and maximum engagement
- Act Boldly with Integrity: Doing the right thing even when no one is looking
- We are One Recursion: Operating with a 'company first, team second' mentality
- Connection of work to company values
- Central to the mission is the Recursion Operating System and Recursion Map
- Biotechnology company scaling like a technology company
- Equal Opportunity Employer valuing diversity and inclusion