[Remote] Vice President, Cybersecurity Operations

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blackmere Consulting, LLC is partnering with a high-maturity, AI-driven cybersecurity organization to identify a deeply technical, engineering-minded Vice President, Cybersecurity. This role involves overseeing cloud, platform, and network security for a large-scale SaaS product while leading major security functions and driving day-to-day execution across the security portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Oversee cloud, platform, and network security for a large-scale, distributed SaaS product.
• Evaluate and influence architectural decisions across microservices, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Provide deep technical guidance in areas such as:
• Network segmentation and secure VPC design
• Firewall, boundary control, and traffic flow architecture
• Protocol-level traffic analysis and defensive engineering
• Secure design patterns and resilient architecture for cloud-native systems
• Assess architectural diagrams and network topologies, challenging engineering decisions with confidence.
• Guide engineering teams on threat modeling, attack surface minimization, and resiliency.
• Lead enterprise-scale incident response, driving real-time decisions under pressure.
• Understand root cause, containment strategies, log sources, detection gaps, and kill-chain impacts.
• Direct cross-functional responders during high-severity events.
• Partner with engineering and product teams for fast, pragmatic remediation.
• Communicate clearly with senior executives during critical incidents.
• Oversee enterprise risk management, including GRC, vendor risk, and regulatory frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, etc.).
• Lead initiatives in AI/ML security, including adversarial testing and the build-out of an AI security testing function.
• Drive cross-functional resilience programs spanning business continuity, disaster recovery, and data lifecycle governance.
• Translate technical risks into operational and business implications for executive stakeholders.
• Influence product, engineering, legal, and risk partners to ensure aligned and scalable security practices.

Skills

• 10–15+ years of progressive InfoSec leadership, including VP/Head-of-level responsibility and deep operational oversight.
• Experience leading cybersecurity operations for a SaaS organization.
• Demonstrated success leading cloud-first or cloud-scale security programs, ideally in fast-moving or high-risk environments.
• Strong, current technical foundation with an emphasis on network security, including: TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, VPNs, proxies.
• Network and distributed system architecture review.
• Attack path analysis, lateral movement detection, and traffic-level defensive engineering.
• Secure design of large, distributed, cloud-native systems.
• Significant incident response leadership, including enterprise-scale, high-severity events and coordination of technical responders.
• Enterprise-level AI/ML security expertise, including hands-on implementation experience, adversarial testing, secure model design, or applied detection use cases — with the ability to lead AI security strategy across product and enterprise.
• Strong command of security frameworks and risk standards (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI, GDPR).
• Engineering mindset and technical pedigree, ideally supported by a STEM degree.
• High-credibility communicator able to influence senior technical leaders and translate complex risks into business-aligned decisions.
• Offensive security foundations (pentesting, red teaming, exploit development, adversarial analysis).
• Experience in high-threat or highly regulated industries (finance, healthcare, logistics, defense).
• Advanced AI/ML or adversarial AI research experience.
• Securing large-scale SaaS platforms or distributed enterprise environments.

Company Overview

• Blackmere Consulting is a Nationwide Technical and Executive Recruiting firm dedicated to Cyber Security and Information Technology. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. Its website is https://www.blackmereconsulting.com.

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