# Senior Director, Reliability and Security Engineering

**Company:** [Beacon Biosignals](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/beacon-biosignals)
**Location:** Boston, MA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure As Code, Kubernetes, Security Engineering, Incident Response, SOC 2, ISO 27001, Hitrust, Compliance Automation
**Posted:** 2026-06-23

> Lead and grow SRE, IT, and security engineering teams at a precision medicine startup. Own reliability, security posture, compliance roadmap (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST), and incident response for cloud infrastructure supporting ML workloads.

## Job Description

## What you will be doing
- Manage and grow the SRE and IT teams while building out security-focused capabilities
- Set a unified technical vision across reliability, security, and IT
- Improve Beacon's security posture through automation, infrastructure hardening, and policy-as-code
- Ensure the reliability and availability of Beacon's cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters powering ML workloads
- Own and evolve incident response practices, including on-call structure, escalation paths, and post-incident learning
- Build self-service IT tooling and workflows that reduce friction while maintaining access controls and compliance
- Own Beacon's compliance roadmap toward HITRUST r2 certification in H1 2027
- Collaborate with engineering teams to embed reliability and security into the development lifecycle
- Develop and mentor direct reports
- Maintain outcome-oriented roadmaps connecting to broader strategic objectives

## What you will bring
- 10+ years in SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, or security engineering roles
- 5+ years managing engineering teams including director-level experience
- Experience at a startup or growth-stage company strongly preferred
- Experience managing multiple engineering teams simultaneously and growing a team or function from the ground up
- Strategic leadership with technical depth to set a high bar and engage on architectural decisions
- Experience implementing security controls as code, automated compliance workflows, or tooling that made secure practices the path of least resistance
- Experience with IT operations in a hybrid/remote environment
- Experience in or adjacent to a regulated industry (biopharma, healthcare, fintech) with hands-on compliance frameworks experience
- Strong incident management experience leading incident response in production environments
- Bias towards simplicity and ability to impose structure at the right time

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