Director, Security Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $161.5k - $209k / year

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Virta Health

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201 - 500 employees

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Wellness

Virta Health is a healthcare company focused on reversing type 2 diabetes and promoting sustainable weight loss through a nutrition-first approach. The company offers personalized treatment plans that help individuals reduce or eliminate the need for diabetes medications. Virta collaborates with organizations and healthcare providers to deliver transformative outcomes in metabolic care. Their approach is evidence-backed, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle and dietary changes to achieve lasting health improvements and weight management.

📋 Description

• Lead Virta’s Enterprise Security Engineering and Security Operations functions as a player-coach. • Direct, mentor, and grow a high-performing security engineering team. • Conduct technical sprint planning, alignment, and coaching while maintaining hands-on technical depth. • Lead the enterprise-wide transition to Zero Trust Architecture across IT, corporate platforms, and cloud engineering infrastructure. • Own monitoring, detection engineering, incident response, and outsourced 24/7 MDR/SOC vendor relationships. • Ensure telemetry pipelines, alert triage, and threat containment operate effectively. • Design and maintain blast-radius reduction solutions, including micro-segmentation and ephemeral Workload Identity controls. • Curate the Data Topology Map, CAA Matrix, Workload Ledger, and technical Containment Playbooks. • Operationalize risk-based vulnerability management and define patching and remediation SLAs. • Collaborate with GRC, IT, and Product teams to integrate security into CI/CD and apply guardrails to enterprise AI tools. • Within 90 days, assess ZTMM maturity, deliver baseline topology and attack-surface artifacts, audit MDR pipelines, secure GitHub configurations, pilot GCP VPC-SC boundaries, standardize containment playbooks, and present security operations and ZTA metrics to executives.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of dedicated experience in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure security, or SecOps. • At least 3+ years managing, leading, or mentoring high-performing security teams. • Experience overseeing incident response programs and managing external vendors, including outsourced MDR/SOC partners, SIEM platforms, and EDR/XDR toolsets. • Deep technical expertise in cloud security architecture, ideally GCP. • Hands-on experience building micro-segmentation models, establishing ephemeral workload identity controls, and securing CI/CD pipelines. • Exceptional analytical capability for systemic mapping, risk prioritization frameworks, RBVM, and Zero Trust Maturity Models. • Proven experience architecting durable AI systems or automation workflows that solve cross-functional challenges and improve business efficiency. • Experience designing and implementing repeatable AI-enabled workflows that address team bottlenecks and improve efficiency. • Exceptional communication skills for conveying complex security strategies to non-technical leaders and external stakeholders. • Ability to comply with Virta security and privacy procedures for HIPAA-governed patient information. • Legally authorized to work in the United States. • Must answer whether employment-visa sponsorship will be required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Location-based compensation structure • Remote-first work arrangement • Access to office hubs in Denver and San Francisco • Security and privacy training • Benefits information provided on Virta’s Careers page