Director, RAAS l Managed Services

Atlanta, GA Assurance – Risk Advisory and Assurance Services /Full Time /Hybrid Work with a Top 20 CPA and advisory firm that Accounts for Anything.  Aprio has 40 U.S. office locations, as well as international office locations and more than 3,200 team members that speak 60+ languages across the globe.  By bringing together proven expertise, deep understanding, and strategic foresight for fast-growing industries, Aprio ensures clients are prepared for wherever life or business may take them.

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Job Summary Join Aprio's Risk Advisory and Assurance Services (RAAS) Team and you will help clients maximize their opportunities. Aprio is a progressive, fast-growing firm looking for a Director, RAAS l Managed Services to join their dynamic team!

Aprio is building a managed security services (MSSP) practice focused on the Microsoft security ecosystem, serving Defense Industrial Base (DIB) contractors, DoD and federal organizations, and other regulated customers. As Director of RAAS Managed Services, you will own the service end to end — defining the offering, standing up the operations, building the team, winning the first customers, and growing the practice into a scalable, profitable business line.

This is an entrepreneurial, build-from-early-stage opportunity backed by the resources and relationships of a high-growth professional services firm. You will be equally comfortable writing a KQL detection rule, briefing a defense program manager, and presenting a P&L to executive leadership.

What You'll Gain / Impact:

Rare opportunity to build and lead a first-of-its-kind MSSP practice within a nationally recognized professional services firm.

Full ownership of a new business line from early stage through scale — including service design, go-to-market strategy, and team development.

Direct impact on national security outcomes by protecting DIB and federal organizations.

Deep partnership with Microsoft and hands-on access to the full Microsoft security ecosystem.

High-visibility role with direct exposure to firm-wide executive leadership and growth strategy.

Key Responsibilities Service Strategy & Business Building Define the MSSP service catalog — including managed detection and response (MDR), vulnerability management, identity threat protection, and CMMC compliance monitoring — including tiers, SLAs, and pricing models

Partner with sales and business development on go-to-market strategy, solution positioning, proposals, and RFP/RFI responses, including federal and DoD contract vehicles

Serve as the senior technical voice in customer pursuits: lead discovery sessions, scoping, and executive presentations

Develop and leverage the Microsoft partnership to strengthen service capabilities and expand market presence

Technical Leadership & Operations Architect a scalable, multi-tenant security operations platform built on Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Entra , Intune, and Purview, using Azure Lighthouse and Defender multi-tenant management

Establish SOC processes — triage, incident response, escalation, threat hunting, playbooks, and runbooks — with 24x7 coverage models

Drive detection engineering and automation, including analytics rules, KQL hunting queries, workbooks, Logic Apps/SOAR playbooks, and Security Copilot use cases, with content managed as code (CI/CD, Git)
Design repeatable customer onboarding: data connector deployment, log source prioritization, ingestion cost optimization, and tuning

Define service KPIs (MTTD, MTTR, SLA attainment, false-positive rates, customer satisfaction) and report on them to customers and leadership

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