Senior Director of Reliability and Security Engineering

Join Beacon Biosignals as the Senior Director of Reliability and Security Engineering. In this leadership role, you will manage and grow the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and IT teams, while building out the security engineering practice. You will set a unified technical vision across reliability, security, and IT, and improve Beacon's security posture through automation and infrastructure hardening. You will also ensure the reliability and availability of Beacon's cloud infrastructure, own and evolve incident response practices, and collaborate with engineering teams to embed reliability and security into the development lifecycle.

• Manage and grow the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and IT teams while building out security-focused capabilities across both.
• Set a unified technical vision across reliability, security, and IT that treats all three as interconnected engineering disciplines.
• Own and evolve Beacon's incident response practices, including on-call structure, escalation paths, and post-incident learning.
• We want someone who sees reliability, security, and IT as software engineering problems: infrastructure-as-code over manual runbooks, automated compliance over audit scrambles, and self-service tooling that makes the secure path the easy path
• You have meaningful experience with IT operations in a hybrid/remote environment, and you understand how to balance user productivity with security and compliance requirements
• You've worked in or adjacent to a regulated industry (biopharma, healthcare, fintech, etc.) and have hands-on experience with compliance frameworks. You understand how to maintain development velocity within those constraints
• You approach security with an engineering mindset: you've implemented security controls as code, automated compliance workflows, or built tooling that made secure practices the path of least resistance
• You have strong incident management experience. You've led incident response in production environments and built the monitoring, alerting, and post-mortem practices that reduce recurrence
• You communicate clearly and follow through on decisions. You swiftly communicate changes with collaborators and stakeholders
• You're a strategic leader first, with enough technical depth to set a high bar, earn your team's respect, and engage meaningfully on architectural decisions. You understand the engineering principles underlying your teams' work — how infrastructure-as-code, incident response, and security automation fit together
• You demonstrate a bias towards simplicity, avoid misallocating complexity, and impose structure at the right time, not too early or too late
• Information-gathering is ingrained in every aspect of your work. Your decisions incorporate feedback from stakeholders, your reports, and historical context that you intentionally mine over time
• You've managed multiple engineering teams simultaneously and have experience growing a team or function from the ground up
• Approximate experience: 10+ years in SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, or security engineering roles, with 5+ years managing engineering teams including at least some experience at a director or equivalent level. Experience at a startup or growth-stage company is strongly preferred