Deputy CISO
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Oct 01, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
To support a growing security organization, the full-time remote Deputy CISO will partner with the CISO to define and execute the security strategy, provide technical leadership, and oversee security architecture and engineering efforts.
Key responsibilities
- Partner with the CISO to define and execute the security strategy and roadmap across the organization
- Lead hands-on technical reviews of security architecture and drive secure-by-design practices in the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines
- Build, mentor, and lead security engineers and architects while overseeing responses to major security incidents
Required qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in security engineering, architecture, or technical leadership roles with hands-on technical work
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Deep expertise in cloud security architecture, particularly AWS, and infrastructure-as-code
- Strong background in application security and modern architecture patterns
- Experience leading technical incident response and building technical security teams
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