Director – Security Practice

🕒 May 21

🌵 Arizona – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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iT1

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2003

🏢 Enterprise

Enterprise • IT Services • Cloud Services

iT1 is a global, full-service technology solution provider headquartered in Tempe, AZ. It specializes in delivering advanced IT solutions such as cloud services, cybersecurity, communications, and collaboration infrastructure. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of services, including IT configuration, IT monitoring, and management to commercial, healthcare, nonprofit, public sector, and government industries. With extensive expertise in Microsoft tools, iT1 helps organizations optimize operations and enhance their IT investments through professional and managed services.

📋 Description

• Lead the strategic direction, growth plan, and day-to-day operations of the security practice, including service development, go-to-market priorities, and revenue attainment. • Partner with sales teams to qualify opportunities, develop account strategies, support discovery sessions, and help position security solutions that address customer business and risk objectives. • Provide technical and business leadership across email security, SASE, endpoint protection, vulnerability management, SOC/MDR, and secure gateway solutions, ensuring offerings remain current, competitive, and aligned to client demand. • Oversee delivery quality, resource planning, utilization, and customer satisfaction across security engagements, including assessments, implementations, managed services, and recurring advisory services. • Build strategic relationships with key security vendors and partners, including Arctic Wolf, Pondurance, Zscaler, Cloudflare, and other relevant platform providers to support joint selling, enablement, and service delivery excellence. • Work with internal iT1 personnel attached to Security Vendors to collaborate on business plans and strategy. • Recruit, mentor, and develop security consultants, engineers, and practice resources by establishing career paths, training plans, delivery standards, and technical enablement programs. • Own practice-level financial performance, including forecasting, pipeline health, gross margin, service pricing input, and contribution to annual business planning. • Contribute to proposals, statements of work, service descriptions, presentations, and executive briefings, translating technical capabilities into clear business value and delivery outcomes. • Establish and track key performance indicators for the practice, including bookings, revenue, utilization, customer satisfaction, service quality, and partner performance, and drive continuous improvement based on results.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, security consulting, managed security services, or related technology services, including leadership or practice management responsibility. • Demonstrated experience with one or more of the following domains: email security, SASE/security service edge, endpoint security, vulnerability assessment and management tools, SOC/MDR solutions, and secure access or API gateway technologies. • Strong business acumen with experience in practice operations, service delivery management, financial oversight, forecasting, and cross-functional leadership. • Ability to lead pre-sales activities including client discovery, workshop facilitation, solution positioning, proposal development, and statement of work review. • Excellent executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-focused recommendations. • Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. • **Preferred Certifications:** • Preferred certifications include CISSP, CISM, CCSP • Relevant vendor certifications from Zscaler, Cloudflare, Microsoft Security, Cisco, Palo Alto • Relevant leading cybersecurity platforms.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits with highly subsidized premiums • Two weeks accrued paid time off in your first year, with increasing PTO as tenure increases, and most major holidays off • 401(k) Plan with employer match • Onsite Fitness Center • Onsite Monthly Massages