Director of IT Operations

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🏄 California, Illinois – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Operations

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Keeper Security, Inc.

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2011

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 Private Equity Round - Keeper Security on 2023-05

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Enterprise

Keeper Security, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that delivers cloud-first, zero-trust privileged access management (PAM) and password management solutions. Its KeeperPAM platform, secrets manager, endpoint privilege manager, and related products secure credentials, sessions, and remote access for enterprises, MSPs, and public-sector organizations using end-to-end encryption and a zero-knowledge architecture. Keeper operates primarily as a SaaS provider, emphasizes stringent compliance (FedRAMP, ISO, SOC 2, FIPS, PCI DSS, HIPAA), and is focused on preventing data breaches and managing privileged access across large-scale environments.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute a multi-year enterprise IT roadmap aligned with Keeper’s growth and business strategy • Operate with a “customer zero” mindset, ensuring Keeper’s internal IT environment reflects and validates its product philosophy • Lead global IT operations supporting a distributed, multi-site workforce and DevOps organization • Build, develop and lead the IT Operations team, including staffing, performance management and succession planning • Own the IT operating budget, forecasting, cost optimization, licensing and SaaS spend • Oversee endpoint management, collaboration systems, enterprise applications and virtual desktop environments • Ensure secure and frictionless access to corporate systems, SaaS platforms and development environments in partnership with Network and Security Operations • Govern SaaS application onboarding, ownership, access permissions, integrations and decommissioning • Maintain configuration management, asset inventory and full hardware and software asset lifecycle management • Establish and manage a multi-tiered IT support environment for a global employee population • Own the IT service management framework, including incident, request, problem and change management processes • Establish measurable service-level agreements and operational KPIs, with regular executive reporting • Oversee internal IT requests, end-user systems, asset management and daily IT operations • Own on-call coverage, escalation paths and after-hours support for critical IT services • Develop and maintain IT support documentation, knowledge base resources, procedures, playbooks and operational plans • Own workforce identity lifecycle, including provisioning, deprovisioning, role-based access assignment and identity governance • Enforce token-based authentication and single sign-on across corporate systems • Ensure user access changes follow approved policies and remain in auditable records • Partner with Security Operations on access reviews and remediation of excessive or orphaned accounts • Lead new-hire IT onboarding, ensuring devices, accounts, access and software are ready before start dates • Define onboarding workflows, checklists and runbooks with Human Resources, People Operations and hiring managers • Oversee hardware procurement, imaging, asset assignment, shipping and remote setup support for new hires • Track onboarding service levels, employee satisfaction and time-to-productivity metrics • Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning for corporate and internal systems with DevOps • Plan, execute and report on failover testing, managed DNS failover and cross-region recovery exercises • Define and track recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives for IT-owned systems • Lead business continuity tabletop exercises and incorporate lessons learned into plans and runbooks • Communicate company-wide regarding system status, downtime and scheduled maintenance • Govern enterprise change management, including change calendars, maintenance windows and change freezes • Manage IT vendor relationships, service-level performance, contract renewals and third-party service delivery • Partner with Procurement and Security on vendor evaluations and third-party risk reviews, including FedRAMP and IL5 requirements where applicable • Support audit readiness and control evidence reporting for IT-owned controls • Maintain documented IT controls and evidence supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001 and related compliance frameworks • Drive operational maturity through IT automation, observability, reliability engineering and continuous process improvement

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in IT leadership, enterprise infrastructure, end-user services and IT service management • Demonstrated experience leading global IT operations for a distributed or multi-site workforce • Experience building, managing and developing high-performing IT Operations or corporate IT teams • Experience managing IT budgets, vendor relationships, licensing and SaaS spend • Strong working knowledge of identity and access management, including SSO, SCIM provisioning, token-based authentication and role-based access controls • Experience with IT service management platforms, configuration management and IT asset management • Experience leading or supporting IT onboarding and offboarding for a growing, distributed workforce • Proven experience designing, testing and managing disaster recovery and business continuity programs, including cloud failover • Experience establishing IT service-level agreements, operational KPIs and executive reporting • Strong understanding of endpoint management, enterprise applications, collaboration platforms and workforce technology • Experience operating in a security-conscious or compliance-driven environment • Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to translate operational metrics into business decisions • Excellent problem-solving, organizational and decision-making skills • Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and collaborate effectively with technical and business leaders • Ability and willingness to use AI tools effectively to improve IT operations, documentation, troubleshooting and workflow efficiency • Preferred: Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, DoD IL5 or similar compliance frameworks • Preferred: Experience supporting a global technology or cybersecurity organization • Preferred: Experience with IT automation, observability or reliability engineering programs • Preferred: Experience managing virtual desktop environments and distributed workforce infrastructure • Preferred: Experience with enterprise SaaS governance, application rationalization and access reviews • Preferred: Experience leading business continuity tabletop exercises and cross-region recovery testing • Preferred: Experience working with HR and People Operations to improve employee onboarding and offboarding

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships) • Employer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental life • Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance • 401K (Roth/Traditional) • A generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc) • Above market annual bonuses

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