Director, Security Practice

About the role

iT1, a leading national technology solution provider headquartered in Tempe, AZ, seeks a Director, Security Practice to lead the organization's security practice across consulting, professional services, and managed security offerings.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic direction, growth plan, and day-to-day operations of the security practice, including service development, go-to-market priorities, and revenue attainment
• Partner with sales teams to qualify opportunities, develop account strategies, support discovery sessions, and help position security solutions that address customer business and risk objectives
• Provide technical and business leadership across email security, SASE, endpoint protection, vulnerability management, SOC/MDR, and secure gateway solutions, ensuring offerings remain current, competitive, and aligned to client demand
• Oversee delivery quality, resource planning, utilization, and customer satisfaction across security engagements
• Build strategic relationships with key security vendors and partners, including Arctic Wolf, Pondurance, Zscaler, Cloudflare, and other relevant platform providers to support joint selling, enablement, and service delivery excellence
• Recruit, mentor, and develop security consultants, engineers, and practice resources by establishing career paths, training plans, delivery standards, and technical enablement programs
• Own practice-level financial performance, including forecasting, pipeline health, gross margin, service pricing input, and contribution to annual business planning
• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, service descriptions, presentations, and executive briefings, translating technical capabilities into clear business value and delivery outcomes
• Establish and track key performance indicators for the practice, including bookings, revenue, utilization, customer satisfaction, service quality, and partner performance, and drive continuous improvement based on results

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, security consulting, managed security services, or related technology services, including leadership or practice management responsibility
• Demonstrated experience with one or more of the following domains: email security, SASE/security service edge, endpoint security, vulnerability assessment and management tools, SOC/MDR solutions, and secure access or API gateway technologies
• Strong business acumen with experience in practice operations, service delivery management, financial oversight, forecasting, and cross-functional leadership
• Excellent executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-focused recommendations
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Preferred certifications include CISSP, CISM, CCSP
• Relevant vendor certifications from Zscaler, Cloudflare, Microsoft Security, Cisco, Palo Alto

Qualifications

• Physical Demands: Sit at a computer for 8 hours per day, keyboarding for 8 hours per day, near vision (working with small objects or reading small print), speaking (communicating information to clients / coworkers), hearing requirements (in person speech, telephone, other sounds)