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Director, Security Operations

Waystar
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Sept 2025

About the role

ABOUT THIS POSITION

The Director of Security Operations is a security leadership position that will manage the Joint Security Operations and Identity Management teams/processes.



The Security Operations team is responsible for conducting 24x7 monitoring and response. They will evaluate threats to the environment and will deploy/record the activities of the Security Incident Response Team. They are responsible for maintaining the operation of the SIEM tool, ensuring proper training for SIRT. Develop metrics around the incident response process and report statuses to management.



The Identity Management team is responsible for managing user account related threats, password management, privileged access management, and user access reviews. Responsible for the creation and tracking of privileged and vendor accounts following least privilege. Uses multiple tools to discover/detect compromised user accounts and manage their remediation. Develop metrics around the incident response process and report statuses to management.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Manage the Joint Security Operations Center/Security Incident Management workflows. 

  • Manage threat research (IANS, H-ISAC, etc.) 

  • Manage the Security Operations tools (Google SecOps/Chronicle, Crowdstrike, etc.) 

  • Manage password management tools (Bitwarden, Lastpass, etc) 

  • Create/manage privileged accounts, vendor accounts, and service accounts. 

  • Perform user access reviews required to meet compliance (SecurEnds) 

  • Other duties as required 

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

 • Have a minimum of 10 years’ experience as a security analyst/incident manager 

• Have a minimum of 20 years’ experience in technology 

• Have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in cloud technology 

• Have a working knowledge of Systems and Network Administration 

• Have worked on complex projects within a corporate or government environment 

• Have worked in a regulated environment, specifically within the Financial or Healthcare  

sectors 

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience 

 

 

 

Preferred Skills: 

 

  • Certification or an advanced degree in IT or Security disciplines 

  • Knowledge of Security tools, such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, & AV, etc. 

  • Experience in Azure, AWS and/or Google Cloud environments 

  • Experience with identity management/active directory    

  • Experience in researching security best practices 

  • Experience working in an environment with audit and regulatory compliance requirements 

  • Experience training others 

  • Experience writing technical documentation 

ABOUT WAYSTAR

Through a smart platform and better experience, Waystar helps providers simplify healthcare payments and yield powerful results throughout the complete revenue cycle.

Waystar’s healthcare payments platform combines innovative, c

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