Director, Information Security - Security Engineering
Recursion
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Posted:
August 23, 2023
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Onsite
About the position
Your work at Recursion, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, will involve leading a team to develop and implement security standards across IT and Cloud Infrastructure and core software products. You will ensure security and privacy by design throughout the technology stack and participate in efforts to achieve certifications and attestations. Additionally, you will be responsible for threat modeling, exploring new security threats, and incorporating security measures into the DevSecOps process. Joining a growing IT and Information Security team, you will collaborate with colleagues to address important challenges and capabilities in decoding biology.
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 familiar 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
- 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
- Possess 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, communities, and patients
- We Learn: Learning from diverse perspectives and failure
- We Deliver: High expectations for delivery with urgency and recovery
- 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 mission focused on Recursion Operating System and Recursion Map
- Biotechnology company scaling like a technology company
- Equal Opportunity Employer valuing diversity and inclusion