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  • Oakland, CA

Responsibilities

  • Act as the hands-on security lead across IT and engineering and prioritize security projects across global operations.
  • Develop, enforce, and maintain security policies, standards, governance, runbooks, and repeatable processes.
  • Investigate security incidents, coordinate response activities, perform root-cause analysis, and serve as an escalation point for complex issues.
  • Secure physical networking and cloud infrastructure, including firewalls, segmentation, cloud workloads, IAM, security groups, and permission policies.
  • Design and manage least-privilege roles, RBAC, application permissions, user groups, and identity lifecycle access.
  • Run user access audits, access reviews, compliance checks, security scans, monitoring, alerting, and reporting.
  • Administer enterprise AI tools such as Claude and evaluate new AI capabilities, integrations, guardrails, and local MCP servers.
  • Review systems, code, third-party components, and open-source components for security risks and secure integration practices.
  • Gather and maintain audit evidence and validate controls for J-SOX, NIST, CMMC 2.0, and SOC 2.
  • Automate manual security work and keep security documentation and internal knowledge bases current.

Requirements

  • Senior-level expertise across identity and access management, infrastructure and cloud security, governance and compliance, incident response, application and integration security, and AI/LLM security.
  • Hands-on incident investigation experience and the judgment to handle phishing, spam, and other user-facing threats.
  • Hands-on experience securing networking and cloud infrastructure, including firewalls, segmentation, IAM, security groups, permission policies, and application permissions.
  • Cloud security experience with AWS, Azure, or similar platforms and experience designing roles and RBAC with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or AWS IAM.
  • Familiarity with security monitoring and detection tools and experience conducting user access audits, access reviews, and compliance checks.
  • Experience supporting SOC 2, NIST 800-53/800-171, CMMC 2.0, and J-SOX programs through evidence gathering and control validation.
  • Application security experience including automation tooling, code review for security issues, and secure integration practices.
  • Working knowledge of AI and LLM security, including AI tool administration, risk evaluation, and MCP server integrations.
  • Ability to make independent security decisions, prioritize competing initiatives, automate manual processes, and communicate across a global multi-site organization.
  • Preferred certifications include CISSP, CISM, Security+, or GIAC certifications such as GSEC or GCIH.
  • Preferred experience includes CMMC 2.0 assessments, global Japanese-owned company audit and controls work, and scripting with Bash, Python, or PowerShell.

Benefits

  • Oakland, California location with 0–10% travel expected.
  • Applicants must be U.S. citizens or Green Card holders.
  • The role involves primarily computer-based work with extended periods of sitting.

Salary: $180k - $216k/yr

Fictiv

Fictiv builds a digital platform for on-demand manufacturing of custom parts, offering CNC machining, 3D printing, and urethane casting from prototype through low-volume production. Companies use its global manufacturing network and hubs in the U.S., China, India, and Mexico to source parts and m...

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