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title: "Senior Director, Cybersecurity Operations & Compliance"
company: "DDN"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/ddn"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/ddn-senior-director-cybersecurity-operations-compliance-9c944bd8-7f67-4286-8c6d-3fdc1cd7cd0e"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ddn/5cb49a76-7785-47eb-85c9-d2975f7c1f91"
workplace: onsite
location: "Santa Clara Colocation"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: director
role: operations
region: united-states
skills: ["aws", "azure", "gcp"]
salary: "$275,000–$295,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-09-17T17:05:20.883Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-17T17:30:06.428Z
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# Senior Director, Cybersecurity Operations & Compliance

**DDN** · Santa Clara Colocation

Salary: $275,000–$295,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ddn/5cb49a76-7785-47eb-85c9-d2975f7c1f91

## About the role

#### Roles and Responsibilities

- Own the identity governance strategy, operating model, and control standards; lead access certification, role lifecycle, and segregation-of-duties programs with clear accountability for control coverage, exception handling, and decision ownership.

- Develop the roadmap for SOX readiness and execute the plan to prepare the company for successful audit performance.

- Architect and deploy a comprehensive IAM technology platform to automate access orchestration, manage privileged access, establish appropriate guardrails for enterprise AI, monitor and manage machine identities, and own a robust IdP/MFA platform.

- Establish governance forums and escalation paths to resolve policy exceptions, toxic access combinations, and role-design conflicts.

- Chair the IT architecture review board, assessing technology design, cost, capabilities, and third-party risk management.

- Manage all public-cloud master accounts and subscriptions; monitor, assess, and optimize cost, least-privilege access, and access automation.

- Direct workflow, analytics, and reporting to surface access risk, measure control effectiveness, and prioritize remediation based on exposure.

- Manage risk exceptions and compensating controls when legacy systems, acquired businesses, or operational constraints prevent immediate compliance.

- Lead the evaluation and modernization of the identity governance platform, processes, and data quality to improve scalability, automation, and evidence integrity.

- Lead identity governance for M&A activities, managing environments where acquired technologies do not yet meet enterprise standards.

#### Job Requirements

- 8+ years of experience in information technology, with an emphasis on identity and access management, including 5+ years leading IAM teams at the manager, director, or higher level.

- Proven experience owning enterprise IAM strategy, including capital and operating budgets.

- Deep hands-on expertise across all aspects of a comprehensive IAM program.

- Experience managing hybrid environments that span on-premises or colocation infrastructure and at least one major cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Deep knowledge of SOX compliance and a proven track record of building readiness programs that deliver successful outcomes.

- Experience with access automation, configuration management, and modern operations practices.

- Track record of building, leading, and retaining high-performing technical teams.

- Legally authorized to work in the United States.

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