Director, Information Security

ABOUT SINGULAR GENOMICS

Singular Genomics is inventing at the forefront of genomics, one of the world’s fastest-growing industries. The commercially available G4® Sequencing Platform is a powerful, highly versatile benchtop genomic sequencer designed to produce fast and accurate results. In addition, the company is currently developing the G4X™ Spatial Sequencer, an upgrade to the G4, which will leverage Singular’s proprietary sequencing technology, applying it as an in situ readout for transcriptomics, proteomics and fluorescent H&E in tissue, with spatial context. Singular Genomics’ mission is to empower researchers and clinicians to advance science and medicine.

We foster a culture of creativity and technical excellence, both catalysts for innovation. We celebrate diversity, emphasize collaboration and, as we rapidly mature, we are constantly looking at ways we can do better for our people.

Our Headquarters are located on the Torrey Pines Mesa, in La Jolla, California at the center of the biotech hub. Our Manufacturing facility is in Sorrento Valley.

Position Summary:

The Director, Information Security will support our internal IT team and mission critical infrastructure to ensure best in class security systems are rolled out and implemented rapidly and effectively, run and leverage audits and independent testing, while assisting in various areas of core infrastructure innovation. In this position, you will have the opportunity to work with team members and grow to help push our IT strategy forward.  You will apply technical skills and creativity in support of our Next Gen Sequencing (NGS) instrument development for Singular Genomics platforms. This role reports to the SVP, IT & InfoSec. This position may be local or hybrid/remote.

Responsibilities:

• Serve with resourcefulness, critical thinking and problem-solving aptitude.
• Execute, lead and augment full audit programs and both internal and external assessments
• Apply excellent working knowledge and hands-on experience with managing information security platforms within computer systems, servers, network, system administration, database and data storage systems.  
• Roll out and advise on information security programs for R&D groups such as laboratory operations, clinical and other mission critical business units.
• Establish well rounded documentation principles, polices and SOPs as directed while collaborating with business unit leaders to ensure a culture of security among all operations.
• Serve as the IT lead for regulatory guidance applications within NIST, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO and related security postures.
• Lead audit readiness exercises to ensure IT accelerates ahead of the business needs.
• Develop and establish competency around ISO/SOC/SOC2 certifications as need be
• Ensure and maintain technology compliance with GxP/GMP, CLIA and CAPA laboratory security standards.
• Execute and maintain change management processes enterprise wide
• Maintain, mange and administer all security stack systems such as email gateway, SSO/SAML, endpoint security platform, certificate generation & cryptography, directory and other in scope platforms.
• Support as needed, IT operations including user experience, asset management etc.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or relevant field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years managing Office 365 & GSuite administration, litigation holds and related data security investigation tools.
• 6+ years implementing, designing and proposing security platforms, SaaS products and similar
• 4+ years acting as a SOC lead for the organization including training staff and responding to security incidents.
• 5+ years managing disaster recovery solutions in both on-prem and hybrid cloud operations.
• 5+ years demonstrated hands-on managing, engineering & change management ability.
• Team-oriented mentality
• 5+ years Microsoft AzureAD/Domain ADFS system knowledge, engineering and maintenance
• 6+ years’ experience managing IT projects using tools such as Atlassian Suite/Jira, Monday, Microsoft Project and similar platforms.
• 5+ years IT audit experience including regulatory compliance modeling ahead of organizational needs.
• 6+ years Cisco network asset experience such as Meraki, Catalyst or other similar platforms
• 6+ years’ experience with Hypervisors such as VMWare stack, Nutanix, Azure/Cloud Hyper V solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience with laboratory/diagnostic company/life science growth and expansion both in the US and global
• Familiarity and/or prior experience with business operations activity such as procurement, facilities and R&D Ops
• Background in IT system engineering, software development or security engineering
• Knowledge and application of scripting within multi-os platforms such as Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix and SAN platforms
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems such as SAN/NAS and cloud connect platforms.
• Expertise reviewing and documenting SOP’s, policies and knowledge base articles
• Expertise conducting and history of successful ISO27001, SOC or other related security inspections.

The estimated base salary range for this role based in the United States of America is: $174,250 - $226,500. Compensation decisions are dependent on several factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications, location where the role is to be performed, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Should the level of the role change during the hiring process, the applicable salary range may be updated accordingly. Additionally, all employees are eligible for one of our variable cash programs (bonus or commission) and eligible roles may receive equity as part of the compensation package.

Singular Genomics is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Singular Genomics is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can provide their name and contact information to our Accommodations team at [email protected]. Your request will be responded to as soon as possible.