Allium
Head of Security & IT
New York +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- New York
Remote - Experience
- Typically 6+ years of relevant security engineering, infrastructure security, or corporate security experience.
About the job
Leads Allium’s security program and employee IT environment, implementing controls and guiding defenses for its systems, data, workforce, and AI-agent use.
What you'll do
- Own the security roadmap, prioritize risks, and implement controls across cloud, identity, endpoints, software, and employee IT.
- Set standards for safe AI-agent use and lead detection, incident response, recovery, and vulnerability remediation.
- Coordinate audits and customer security reviews, manage security and IT tools and providers, and build the function.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience implementing controls in cloud-based environments and investigating technical issues.
- Depth in several areas such as identity, cloud or application security, detection and response, endpoint security, or software supply-chain security.
- Experience building or improving a security program at a growing technology company.
- Practical judgment with AI-enabled tools and clear communication across technical and business stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience in enterprise SaaS, data infrastructure, fintech, or similarly security-conscious businesses.
- Experience with AI agents, developer tooling, CI/CD, SOC 2, customer assurance, vendor reviews, or external providers.
Tools
cloud, CI/CD, SOC 2
AI focus
Establish controls for AI-agent identities, permissions, credentials, isolation, data access, and logging; assess AI tools and integrations for prompt injection, misuse, and unintended actions; use AI to improve team workflows with safeguards and validation.
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