Director of Information Security – Fort Lauderdale, FL
Lead the development of a modern cybersecurity program with the opportunity to build security capabilities from the ground up. This direct-hire role offers executive visibility, broad cross-functional influence, and the chance to use automation and AI to scale security operations while strengthening business resilience.
Quick Facts
- Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Employment Type: Direct Hire, onsite
- License/Certifications: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience; CISSP or CISM preferred
- Experience: 10+ years in progressive information security and IT roles, including 5+ years in leadership or management
Pay & Benefits
- $180,000 to $200,000 (based on experience).
What You’ll Do
- Develop and execute a cybersecurity roadmap aligned with business risk, operational resilience, and organizational goals.
- Advise executive leaders on security posture, risk treatment options, priorities, and investment decisions.
- Partner with IT infrastructure, cloud, systems, application, and business owners to integrate practical security controls into technology workflows.
- Design and implement automation using SOAR, scripting, APIs, native platform capabilities, and applied AI to reduce manual work and improve threat detection and response.
- Document existing technical practices and informal workflows as clear policies, standards, procedures, and operational controls.
- Establish security metrics, service-level targets, vulnerability remediation tracking, and executive reporting.
- Own and improve enterprise incident response planning, automated response playbooks, tabletop exercises, identity governance, access reviews, and joiner/mover/leaver processes.
What You Need
Required
- 10+ years of progressive experience in information security and IT.
- 5+ years of experience in security leadership or management.
- Demonstrated success designing and implementing automation through SOAR, scripting, API integrations, or platform automation.
- Experience transforming an undocumented or loosely structured technical environment into a documented, metrics-driven security operation.
- Experience developing or directing incident response plans, automated playbooks, and cross-functional simulations.
- Strong ability to collaborate with IT leaders, systems engineers, application owners, and business stakeholders.
- Excellent executive communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risk and recommendations in clear business terms.
- Strong mentoring, coaching, and security enablement skills.
Preferred
- Experience with firewall configuration, network protocols, Active Directory, SAML, scripting and coding, privileged access management, CASB, zero trust, identity governance platforms, and agentic or generative AI tools.
- Experience benchmarking controls against frameworks such as CIS Critical Security Controls or NIST CSF.
- CISSP, CISM, or a comparable security certification.
About the Assignment
You will join a leading facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where you will formalize and mature the cybersecurity program while partnering closely with existing technology teams. This role is ideal for a pragmatic, personable security leader who can build trust, teach security practices, improve documentation, and help teams adopt secure solutions without unnecessary operational friction.
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