Associate Director, Cybersecurity & IT

1 day, 9 hours ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure
Sage Bionetworks

Sage Bionetworks

Sage Bionetworks is a nonprofit organization that facilitates data sharing and reuse to accelerate biomedical discoveries and enhance the translation of scientific research into medical applications, primarily through its Synapse Python Client, which a...

Biotechnology
51-250
Founded 2009

Description

  • Set and execute Sage’s cybersecurity strategy, roadmap, priorities, investments, and effectiveness measures.
  • Lead the design, implementation, operation, and improvement of security controls across enterprise and technology environments.
  • Oversee security monitoring, threat detection, vulnerability management, testing, incident response, and remediation.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to integrate security into platforms, infrastructure, and software development.
  • Manage identity and access, endpoint and asset management, SaaS administration, technology vendors, and employee IT services.
  • Own technical business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities for critical IT systems.
  • Maintain security standards, procedures, documentation, and evidence supporting audits and control effectiveness.
  • Advise executives and the Board on cybersecurity risks, incidents, capabilities, metrics, and investments.
  • Build, lead, and develop cybersecurity and IT teams with clear ownership, staffing, and accountability.
  • Provide reliable employee technology services, including onboarding, offboarding, access management, help desk support, and device lifecycle management.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, security operations, infrastructure security, or related disciplines, including significant leadership responsibility.
  • Experience leading teams that implement and operate security controls in production environments.
  • Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, FISMA/RMF, FedRAMP, or comparable frameworks.
  • Experience with vulnerability management, security monitoring, incident response, identity and access management, endpoint security, cloud security, and security testing.
  • Experience establishing risk-based processes to identify, prioritize, track, and remediate vulnerabilities and findings.
  • Ability to communicate cybersecurity risks and technical trade-offs to executives and a Board.
  • Experience partnering with compliance, risk, audit, or governance teams and producing technical control evidence.
  • Experience leading IT operations, employee technology services, identity and access management, endpoint management, and enterprise SaaS administration.
  • Experience in a lean, mission-driven nonprofit, research, or similarly complex environment; federal security, cloud-native, biomedical data, security engineering, CISSP, CISM, CGRC, or CISA experience preferred.
  • Ability to work under deadlines, solve complex problems, communicate effectively, collaborate, and adapt to changing priorities.
  • Availability to travel twice yearly to Seattle, Washington, and ability to perform extended computer-based work with occasional lifting of up to 10 pounds.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $140,000–$180,000.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and long-term disability coverage.
  • Retirement plan and flexible spending accounts.
  • Paid time off and flexible work arrangements.
  • Remote or hybrid work within the United States.
  • Virtual-first interview process and reasonable workplace accommodations.

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