Director, Enterprise Security

About this role

Virta Health is seeking a Director of Enterprise Security to lead and shape its security operations. The role is hands-on initially, combining individual investigation work with building and directing a security team and the broader security function. You will design the SOC model, manage detection engineering, incident response, and security platform strategy, and collaborate with GRC on automation and compliance. The position emphasizes practical security leadership, incident handling, and developing AI-assisted security capabilities. The company aims to protect patient data and maintain resilient systems as it scales security efforts. The role is remote-first, with offices in Denver and San Francisco, and offers a compensation range of $161,500 to $209,000, depending on qualifications and experience.

What you would do

• Direct, mentor and grow the security operations team.
• Plan sprints and coach the team while maintaining hands-on technical depth.

What they are asking for

• 10+ years in security operations, detection and response, or cloud security.
• 3+ years leading or mentoring technical security teams.
• Hands-on incident response experience across logs, endpoints, identity, cloud and SaaS.
• Experience writing and maintaining detection rules (detection-as-code) and knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK.
• Strong scripting or programming skills (e.g., Python, Go) and history of building internal tools or automation.

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