Director, IT Security & Compliance

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 organizations 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.

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Engineering Cybersecurity or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure security cloud operations or platform engineering roles.
• 5 years of leadership experience managing technology functions and cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading security and compliance programs (SOC 2 required) incident response activities and risk management initiatives with a pragmatic risk-based approach.
• Experience managing IT operations for distributed or remote-first organizations.
• Experience managing technology budgets vendor relationships and cloud spend optimization.
• Exceptional judgment and comfort with ambiguity: you make calls with incomplete information handle conflict directly and non-emotionally and get things done without needing follow-up.
• Ability to balance strategic planning with hands-on technical execution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a SaaS cloud management cloud infrastructure Kubernetes or DevOps-focused organization.
• Familiarity with AWS Azure Google Cloud Kubernetes Terraform GitHub Actions or similar technologies.
• Experience with NIST 800-171 ISO 27001 FedRAMP or other federal/public-sector compliance frameworks.
• Security certifications such as CISSP CISM or equivalent; cloud certifications from AWS Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience implementing AI-driven productivity and operational automation solutions.
• Experience working at a <100 employee company

Salary Range: $175000 - $225000 USD Annually actual compensation will be determined based on job-related factors including but not limited to relevant experience skills geographic location internal equity and business needs.

We Offer

Our US benefits package includes:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401k with Company Match
• Health & Dependent Care FSA
• Unlimited PTO
• 11 Company Holidays
• Volunteer/Community Engagement Day
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Parental Leave
• Equity Grants
• Home internet Reimbursement

About CloudBolt

CloudBolt is The Cloud ROI Company. We help organizations maximize the value of their cloud investments through greater visibility governance and cost optimization across complex cloud environments. Our platform empowers teams to make smarter cloud decisions by turning insights into action helping businesses improve efficiency control spending and accelerate innovation.

CloudBolt is committed to fostering a collaborative inclusive and high-performing culture where employees can do their best work and make a meaningful impact on our customers success.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

CloudBolt is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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