Director, Security Operations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🛡️ Security Operations

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

🛡️ Insurance

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $150M Private Equity Round - Accelerant on 2023-06

Insurance • SaaS • B2B

Accelerant is a digital-first risk exchange and insurance platform that connects managing general agents (MGAs), underwriters, reinsurers, and institutional capital through a tech-powered, data-driven marketplace. The platform provides real-time analytics, underwriting tools, performance metrics, and operational support (actuarial, claims, regulatory) to streamline specialty insurance distribution and enable faster, more transparent capital deployment. Accelerant positions itself as a SaaS-style partner for specialty insurance firms, focused on improving efficiency, transparency, and profitable growth.

📋 Description

• Report directly to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) • Set technical direction for the security operations team and act as the CISO’s trusted deputy for technical security and security operations • Own the strategic direction of technical security operations, controls and processes • Lead security due diligence and post-close integration assessments for mergers and acquisitions • Build and maintain a repeatable M&A integration playbook, including assessment checklist, risk scoring, remediation plan and day-one controls • Write risk narratives and recommendations for the CISO and deal teams • Lead the penetration test cycle, including scoping, triage, remediation tracking and leadership reporting • Own SOC coordination across Accelerant and Mission US/UK, including shared priorities, escalation paths, handoffs and coverage gaps • Own detection platform strategy, including Microsoft Sentinel cost and ingestion management • Act as incident response manager for technical incidents from triage through resolution • Own and maintain technical incident response playbooks • Lead post-incident lessons-learned reviews and track control changes through completion • Run control reviews and recommend improvements • Serve as the internal escalation point for the external SOC • Build and lead the security engineering team, including hiring, line management, work assignment, output review and coaching • Manage security tooling and service vendors through selection, renewals, performance and escalations • Perform hands-on engineering and investigation work as needed

🎯 Requirements

• 6 to 9 years of security engineering experience • Breadth across cloud security, network security and detection engineering, with depth in Azure and Microsoft Sentinel • Experience leading incident response for technical incidents, including post-incident reviews • Experience assessing the security of acquisitions • Familiarity with modern identity and authentication, including passkeys and privileged access • Experience hiring, line-managing and developing security engineers • Able to write a clear risk narrative and present it to leadership • Sound judgment on ambiguous problems, and good prioritization across competing demands • Experience managing security vendor relationships • Willing to stay close to the technical work; this is not a pure management role • Preferred: experience assessing acquisition targets or integrating acquired companies, including building repeatable playbooks • Preferred: experience running a recurring penetration testing or automated pentest program and driving remediation • Preferred: experience coordinating a SOC or managed detection provider across multiple entities or regions • Preferred: experience with Microsoft Sentinel and SIEM cost optimization • Preferred: experience securing AWS environments and working with Cloudflare • Preferred: experience rolling out phishing-resistant authentication such as passkeys or FIDO2 • Preferred: certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, AZ-500 or SC-200 • Preferred: experience in insurance, financial services or another regulated industry

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