Overview:
As Deputy CISO, you will report directly to the CSO and serve as their strategic and operational right hand. You'll drive day-to-day execution across the security portfolio while leading mission-critical functions for a global SaaS environment - operating fluently at both the engineering and executive layers.
We are looking for a cyber executive professional with deep operational security experience, strong engineering instincts, and the presence to operate confidently in the boardroom. You mentor technical teams while shaping enterprise strategy and innovation.
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Responsibilities:
Operational & Technical Leadership
* Oversee cloud, platform, and network security for a large-scale, distributed SaaS product.
* Evaluate and influence architectural decisions across microservices, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
* Provide deep technical guidance in areas such as:
* Network segmentation and secure VPC design
* Firewall, boundary control, and traffic flow architecture
* Protocol-level traffic analysis and defensive engineering
* Secure design patterns and resilient architecture for cloud-native systems
* Assess architectural diagrams and network topologies, challenging engineering decisions with confidence.
* Guide engineering teams on threat modeling, attack surface minimization, and resiliency.
Incident Response & Operational Command
* Lead enterprise-scale incident response, driving real-time decisions.
* Understand root cause, containment strategies, log sources, detection gaps, and kill-chain impacts.
* Direct cross-functional responders during high-severity events.
* Partner with engineering and product teams for fast remediation.
* Communicate clearly with senior executives during critical incidents.
Strategic Security Leadership
* Oversee enterprise risk management, including GRC, vendor risk, and regulatory frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, etc.).
* Lead initiatives in AI/ML security, including adversarial testing and the build-out of an AI security testing function.
* Drive cross-functional resilience programs spanning business continuity, disaster recovery, and data lifecycle governance.
* Translate technical risks into operational and business implications for executive stakeholders.
* Influence product, engineering, legal, and risk partners to ensure aligned and scalable security practices.
Qualifications:
* 10-15+ years of progressive InfoSec leadership, including VP/Head-of-level responsibility and deep operational oversight.
* Demonstrated success leading cloud-first or cloud-scale security programs, ideally high-risk environments.
* Strong, current technical foundation with an emphasis on network security, including:
* TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, VPNs, proxies
* Network and distributed system architecture review
* Attack path analysis, lateral movement detection, and traffic-level defensive engineering
* Secure design of large, distributed, cloud-native systems
* Significant incident response leadership, including enterprise-scale, high-severity events and coordination of technical responders.
* Enterprise-level AI/ML security expertise, including hands-on implementation experience, adversarial testing, secure model design, or applied detection use cases - with the ability to lead AI security strategy across product and enterprise.
* Strong command of security frameworks and risk standards (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI, GDPR).
* Engineering mindset and technical pedigree, ideally supported by a STEM degree.
* High-credibility communicator able to influence senior technical leaders and translate complex risks into business-aligned decisions.
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