Director, Enterprise Security

The role

You will build and shape the security operations function as a player-coach. You will lead a security operations team, manage incident response, and own detection engineering and security platform strategy.

What you will do

• Direct, mentor, and grow a high-performing security operations team.
• Shape the team's structure, hiring plan, and long-term roadmap.
• Decide on the SOC operating model, coverage, and escalation paths.
• Design and tune detections as code across all security platforms.
• Manage security incidents from triage through post-incident review.
• Perform hands-on investigations across logs, identity, cloud, SaaS and endpoint.
• Build and evolve automated response capabilities using threat models and SOAR.
• Own security platforms including CASB, CSPM, and CNAPP.
• Run recurring testing and adversary emulation to validate defenses.
• Evaluate potential vendors regarding BAA requirements and HITRUST/SOC 2 assurance.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in security operations, detection and response, or cloud security.
• 3+ years leading or mentoring technical security teams.
• Hands-on incident response experience across logs, endpoints, identity, cloud, and SaaS.
• Experience writing and maintaining detection rules in a detection-as-code model.
• Understanding of coverage frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.
• Strong scripting or programming skills (e.g., Python, Go).
• Track record of building internal tools, integrations, or automation.
• Deep experience owning and tuning security platforms such as SIEM, EDR/XDR, CSPM and SOAR.
• Hands-on cloud security experience.
• Practical experience applying AI to security or operational work.
• Clear communicator who can explain technical risk and security strategy to executives, engineering teams, and vendors.

Nice to have

• Cloud security experience in GCP with containerized workloads.
• Experience building AI-assisted workflows, tools, or agents.

About the company

Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. They partner with health plans, employers, and government organizations to help members restore their health through technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery.