Hybrid Practice Lead, Cloud Security, Compliance

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About the role

  • Director leading Cloud Security and Compliance practice at RapidScale, empowering clients with secure managed cloud solutions and AI-driven strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve the Cloud Security and Compliance service portfolio, including AI supported security assessments and resilience programs with a focus on cyber resilience
  • Build methodologies, frameworks, and accelerators that incorporate AI for threat analysis, anomaly detection, regulatory mapping, and risk scoring
  • Develop cyber resiliency capabilities and offerings
  • Recruit, lead, and mentor a high performing team of consultants and analysts with AI fluency as a core requirement
  • Set goals, coach direct reports, and manage performance across AI enabled and traditional delivery workstreams
  • Allocate team capacity across engagements to meet revenue and margin objectives
  • Lead end to end security assessments, security strategy, compliance readiness evaluations, and resilience planning engagements that leverage AI for predictive insights
  • Advise clients on aligning cloud environments to frameworks such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, with AI tools used to accelerate evidence gathering and gap identification
  • Conduct security risk assessments using AI models that support posture analysis, threat detection, and resilience prioritization
  • Deliver executive level briefings that highlight emerging threats, AI informed risk insights, and investment recommendations
  • Guide clients on cyber, observability, DevSecOps maturity, and the integration of AI into operational security practices
  • Oversee remediation, improvement, and automation initiatives
  • Travel to client sites for workshops, executive sessions, and practice delivery oversight
  • Partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering to develop AI-rich security offerings that meet evolving market needs
  • Support pursuits and client presentations as the Cloud Security and AI Resilience subject matter expert
  • Stay ahead of threat intelligence, AI in security operations, cloud provider innovations, and regulatory evolution and translate insights into client and internal guidance

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in related discipline and 10 years’ experience. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 8 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years’ experience; or 14 years’ experience
  • Minimum 5 years leading teams in a management role with accountability for coaching and performance management
  • Deep expertise in cloud security frameworks, risk assessment, regulatory alignment, and AI supported security operations
  • Experience deploying or leading teams using AI tools such as threat intelligence automation platforms, AI based posture management, or cloud provider native AI security services
  • Experience working within global delivery models including onshore, offshore, and nearshore teams, as well as partner led or hybrid delivery structures
  • Experience leading distributed teams across regions such as India, LATAM, EMEA, or APAC and to integrate global resources into client facing delivery and security programs
  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 50 percent
  • CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or equivalent preferred

Benefits

  • The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations
  • seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
  • up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
  • Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
  • health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • retirement planning (401(k))
  • paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)

Job title

Practice Lead, Cloud Security, Compliance

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$175,300 - $292,100 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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