Manager, Security Operations

The role

This Senior Manager will lead Cloud Security, IAM, and the Security Operations Center. You will manage engineers, set technical direction, and own the security of cloud infrastructure, access controls, and threat detection and response.

What you will do

• Own the security architecture and posture of multi-cloud and Kubernetes-based production environments.
• Drive secure-by-default infrastructure through policy-as-code and guardrails in CI/CD.
• Partner with Platform and SRE on deployment models.
• Support the security of customer-facing runtime components.
• Own the workforce and workload identity strategy.
• Advance Zero Trust principles across internal systems and production.
• Lead the SOC and Detection Engineering function.
• Build detections mapped to attacker techniques.
• Own the incident response lifecycle.
• Hire, coach, and develop a high-performing team.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in security engineering, cloud security, or security operations
• 3+ years managing technical security teams
• Deep hands-on experience securing AWS, GCP, and/or Azure and Kubernetes environments at scale
• Strong IAM background: SSO/federation, privileged access management, workload identity, and Zero Trust architecture
• Proven experience running or building detection and response capabilities, including incident command for significant events
• Experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and cloud-native detection tooling, and with writing or reviewing detection logic
• Working knowledge of security frameworks and compliance regimes (NIST CSF, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP or similar)
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Experience at a SaaS, DevOps, or developer-tools company, especially one with customer-hosted or hybrid components
• Experience with policy-as-code (OPA/Rego), infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD security
• Experience with Enterprise Security
• Familiarity with securing AI-enabled products and the supply chain around them
• Relevant certifications (CISSP, CISM, GCP/AWS security specialty, GIAC)

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefit
• Flexible work schedule
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

About the company

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company. It brings AI and automation to the software delivery lifecycle to help teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance.