Director, Enterprise Secruity

Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up.

We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people.

As our Director of Enterprise Security, you'll have the rare opportunity to build and shape Virta's security operations function. This is a player-coach role: early on, you'll be hands‑on in investigations, detections, and tooling alongside the team, while setting the standards, structure, and direction the function will grow into. You'll build a team where analysts run investigations end to end, then turn what they learn into new detections, automation, and context that make the next investigation faster and better informed.

Blending deep technical skill with a fast, well‑practiced incident response capability, you'll keep our systems resilient, our end‑user workflows frictionless, and our patient data protected.

• Hands‑on Engineering & Operational Leadership:
  Direct, mentor, and grow a high‑performing security operations team. Conduct technical sprint planning, alignment, and coaching while maintaining the technical depth to dive into configurations alongside your team.
• Build the enterprise security function:
  Shape the team's structure, hiring plan, and long‑term roadmap as we grow, including decisions about where to build in‑house, where to partner, and how to invest our security budget for the greatest impact.
• Define our SOC operating model:
  Decide whether we operate in a hybrid or internal model, and design the coverage, on‑call, escalation paths, and metrics we use to measure effectiveness.
• Own detection engineering and observability:
  Design and tune detections as code, ensuring version control and testing, across all security platforms.
• Lead technical incident response:
  From triage through post‑incident review, you will own the management of security incidents, inter‑team collaboration and resolution.
• Perform hands‑on investigations:
  Work investigations directly, from log analysis and triage to tracking down identity, cloud, SaaS and endpoint concerns.
• Manage and minimize blast radius:
  Build and evolve automated response capabilities—leveraging threat models and SOAR orchestration to neutralize threats before they spread.
• Lead security platform strategy:
  Own the platforms that give us security visibility across our systems (CASB, CSPM, CNAPP, and more), and keep them tuned as threats change.
• Validate our defenses:
  Run recurring testing and informed adversary emulation to confirm our posture and the effectiveness of detection and mitigation responses.
• Establish clear security expectations for the enterprise systems we adopt, and lead the evaluation of potential vendors, including business associate agreement (BAA) requirements and HITRUST/SOC 2 assurance expectations.
• Design AI‑assisted capabilities:
  Not just pasting an alert into Claude, but developing context, tools and guidance to provide security operations the ability to stitch together disparate data effectively.
• Partner with GRC to automate compliance:
  Work closely with the GRC team to automate evidence collection and generation across our security platforms, mapping it to relevant controls.

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