Senior Director of Security - #2526 - GRAIL Remote-USA or Menlo Park Bookmark Share Print 173 0 2

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GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

As a Sr. Director of Security at GRAIL, you’ll lead Grail’s security teams. We pride ourselves on building, securing, and running at-scale clinical software systems that power our commercial products and research in a robust and compliant manner.




You Will:
  • Lead the security team that is responsible for all software products and corporate-wide security.
  • Lead security and security operations strategy discussions, analyzing and developing security-related architectures.
  • Build and grow an excellent security team.
  • Participate in the development of security and operational processes, architecture, and designs. 
  • Drive best practices for incorporating security and running cloud operations. Leverage Agile and processes for the clinical market.
  • Develop data-driven metrics that drive the success of the security and cloud operations products.
  • Drive information security compliance with identified certifications (e.g. GxP, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, SOC-II, HiTrust) within Software Engineering and across the company.
  • Collaborate with key functional stakeholders across legal, QA, lab ops, IT, commercial, supply chain, and others to deliver a high level of information and security compliance across GRAIL.
  • Lead key customer interactions and questionnaire responses within the information security domain, from potential customers and partners, and also put systems in place to ensure continued compliance consistent with our responses.
  • Drive GRAIL’s security certification and compliance program
  • Develop team competencies based on business needs and new technologies.

  • Your Background Should Include:
  • Bachelors or Masters or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, Data Science, AI, Security, or similar technical field.
  • At least 15+ years of industry work experience designing, developing, and leading information security and cloud operations.
  • Experience managing and building security and/or cloud operations teams.
  • Strong background and experience in DevOps, information security and cybersecurity.
  • Experience architecting AWS-based environments.
  • Prior experience with leading automation initiatives to enforce compliance and security controls.
  • Prior experience being a lead architect or security architect, or cloud operations/security director.
  • Prior experience working in a healthcare environment, including experience with HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, SOC-II,  and HiTrust, is a big plus.
  • Extensive experience working in a healthcare organization, including experience with HIPAA Security Rule compliance, risk analyses, audits, and breach investigation for a covered entity or business associate organization.
  • Experience with AWS cloud and Infrastructure As Code.
  • Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated leadership and self-direction.
  • Collaborative team player.
  • Demonstrated willingness to teach others and learn new techniques.

  • Preferences:
  • AWS certifications, especially Pro Solutions Architect or AWS Security Specialty certification, are a big plus.
  • Security-related certifications like ISC2 CISSP or ISACA CISM
  • Experience leading the cloud operations team responsible for infrastructure build-out, operating cloud environments, and improving developer productivity by applying DevOps principles.
  • Experience with next-generation sequencing data analysis (DNA, RNA, or epigenetic analysis.)

  • GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

    Following extensive monitoring, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, GRAIL US has made the decision to require that all U.S. employees be “Fully Vaccinated” with the COVID-19 vaccine and “Up to Date” with any recommended booster. “Fully Vaccinated” is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine (e.g. Pfizer or Moderna) or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine (e.g. Johnson & Johnson) has been administered; "Up to Date" means having timely received any COVID-19 vaccine booster(s) in accordance with CDC guidelines. Absent a qualifying exemption, all GRAIL US employees are to comply with this requirement, including providing documentation of such vaccination status, as a condition of employment. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation for consideration by GRAIL.


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