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title: 'Security Operations Team Lead at Fireblocks'
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# Security Operations Team Lead at Fireblocks

- **Company:** Fireblocks
- **Location:** Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
- **Posted:** 2026-02-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://www.fireblocks.com/careers/position?gh_jid=4655907006

## Job description

The world of digital assets is accelerating in speed, magnitude, and complexity, opening the door to new ways for leveraging the blockchain. Fireblocks’ platform and network provide the simplest and most secure way for companies to work with digital assets and it trusted by some of the largest financial institutions, banks, globally-recognized brands, and Web3 companies in the world, including BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, ANZ Bank, Revolut, and thousands more.

Founded in 2018 and already valued at over $8 billion, Fireblocks is a SaaS platform that helps companies to create innovative products on the blockchain and manage day-to-day crypto operations. Fireblocks is trusted by some of the largest financial institutions, banks, globally recognized brands, and Web3 companies in the world, including BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, ANZ Bank, Revolut, and thousands more, to securely scale digital asset operations through the Fireblocks Network and MPC-based wallet infrastructure. We have offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, and we are continuing to expand our teams to reach new customers globally.

The Security & Information team is looking for someone who is passionate about technology and has a roll-up-their-sleeves mentality to join our global team. You’ll play a crucial role in enhancing our security infrastructure, improving networking, ensuring scalability, and maintaining strong security as we continue to grow. If you want to be an industry leader, on a team experiencing hyper-growth, look no further!

## What you’ll do

As a SecOps Team Lead, you’ll be responsible for securing and protecting our infrastructure, including orchestrating and administering various internal autonomous processes and workflows. You will partner with technology team to onboard accessible AI workflows, driving the transition from manual SOC operations to an autonomous, agentic model. You'll also provide security expertise and guidance to the team on various security-related matters and build and own solutions to quickly identify breach attempts, contain and eradicate threats, streamline our security incident response processes, continuously test our controls, and help the business make informed decisions based on threat intelligence. This is a fast-paced environment, where you’ll have the opportunity to manage multiple projects at once.

## Responsibilities

- Lead & Mentor: Manage a team of SecOps analysts, providing technical guidance, career development, and performance management in a fast-paced environment.
- Act as the primary escalation point for high-priority security incidents, leading the triage, containment, and post-mortem processes for our production and cloud environments.
- Lead SecOps projects from inception to execution, ensuring effective implementation and ongoing maintenance.
- Coordinate investigation, containment, and other response activities with business stakeholders and groups.
- Perform hands-on forensic investigations, log reviews, cloud investigations, and root-cause analysis
- AI-Driven Operational Maturity: Proven track record in orchestrating autonomous workflows (e.g., automated phishing triage, AI-driven anomaly detection).
- Develop incident analysis and findings reports for management, including gap identification and recommendations for improvement.
- Drive SOC Enablement & Modernization: Partner closely with the technology team to streamline and democratize autonomous AI workflows, leading the team's transition from manual operations to an accessible, agentic SOC.

## Minimum Requirements

- 5+ years experience working in an Incident Response/Cyber Security Operations Center (in-house or outsourced) creating, escalating, and managing security incidents and creating incident reports.
- Extensive experience and managing the lifecycle of security incidents in a global, 24/7 production environment.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to drive incident response and remediation.
- Security Automation & AI: Proven experience in integrating AI models and automated workflows into day-to-day SecOps operations to optimize threat analysis and operational response.
- 1+ years in a leadership role (Team Lead or acting lead,Tech lead]), with a passion for mentoring and developing talent.
- Proven expertise in attack and mitigation methods within AWS, GCP, or Azure environments
- Incident Response Prowess: Extensive experience in risk prioritization and managing the lifecycle of security incidents in a global production environment
- Solid understanding of system and security controls on at least two OSs (Windows, Linux / Unix, and MacOS (Advantage), including host-based forensics and experience with analyzing OS artifacts.
- Problem solver, an in-depth thinker with a growth mindset.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with other teams

## Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

Fireblocks' mission is to enable every business to easily and securely access digital assets and cryptocurrencies. In order to do that, we strongly believe our workforce should be as diverse as our clients, and this is why we embrace diversity and inclusion in all its forms.

[Please see our candidate privacy policy here](https://www.fireblocks.com/candidate-privacy-notice/).

## About Fireblocks

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fireblocks provides a secure, scalable platform for digital asset custody, stablecoin payments, tokenization, and treasury management, enabling financial institutions and fintechs to build and operate on the blockchain.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, total funding $1.043B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Michael Shaulov (CEO), Idan Ofrat (CPO), Pavel Berengoltz (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Digital asset infrastructure, blockchain security, stablecoin payments, tokenization
- **Target customers**: B2B – banks, payment providers, fintechs, exchanges, custodians, and Web3 businesses (enterprise and high-growth)
- **Mission or purpose**: "Infrastructure that powers financial possibility" – enabling every business to easily and securely support digital assets and cryptocurrencies.

## Products & Services
- **Digital Asset Infrastructure**: Core platform for building, securing, and automating digital asset operations at scale – includes custody, wallet management, and transaction security.
- **Stablecoin Infrastructure**: Move, manage, hold, and issue stablecoins with built-in compliance; orchestrate global stablecoin payments across any blockchain, payment rail, and currency.
- **Payments**: Orchestrate global stablecoin payments, cut settlement times, and scale transaction volumes.
- **Treasury Management**: Secure, control, and automate digital asset treasury operations.
- **Embedded Wallets / Wallet-as-a-Service**: Create white-labeled wallets for consumer and retail apps, powering high-volume retail businesses.
- **Tokenization**: Tokenize assets and manage smart contract operations for digital securities, bonds, and funds.
- **Fireblocks Network**: Direct connectivity to the entire digital asset ecosystem (exchanges, custodians, liquidity providers) for settlement and trading.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed; latest funding round: Series C ($133M) in March 2021, with subsequent venture rounds in 2023.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $121.5M (2025 estimate, private) – **Total Funding** $1.043B
- **Notable Investors**: Stripes, Coatue, Paradigm, Cyberstarts, Tenaya Capital, Gil Mandelzis, Arjun Balaji, Ken Fox
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 756 employees (+24% YoY, +188 staff)
  - Over 2,200 organizations trust Fireblocks, including BNY Mellon, Worldpay, Galaxy, Revolut
  - Secured over $10 trillion in digital asset transactions across 100+ blockchains
  - Acquired Blockfold, Dynamic Labs, First Group, and Tres (2022-2023)
  - Offices in 8 countries: US, UK, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, France, Switzerland

## Competitive Advantages
- **Security moat**: Patent-pending Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and chip isolation technology – born from the founders’ cybersecurity background (Check Point) and investigation of the Lazarus Group hack.
- **Largest ecosystem**: Direct network connecting banks, exchanges, custodians, and payment providers – network effects that are hard to replicate.
- **Trusted by incumbents**: BNY Mellon, Revolut, and ABN AMRO use the platform for tokenized bonds and stablecoin payments.
- **Scalability**: Proven to handle millions of stablecoin transactions and cut settlement times from 12+ hours to under 90 minutes (e.g., Bridge use case).

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand stablecoin payments and tokenization** for traditional financial institutions.
- **Go deeper into Web3** with embedded wallets and on-chain consumer experiences.
- **Scale the Fireblocks Network** to become the default settlement layer for digital assets.
- **Licensed payments services**: Hiring a General Manager for Licensed Payments Services, indicating push into regulated payments.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Work where you’re best" hybrid model – flexible remote in office hubs (NY, Tel Aviv, London, Singapore, etc.). Vibrant, high-energy offices.
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary and equity, generous flexible PTO, paid parental leave and family forming reimbursement, premium medical and health coverage.
- **Growth & development**: Professional development resources, exposure to cutting-edge blockchain and security engineering.
- **Engineering culture**: 19 open R&D roles (blockchain, security, backend, mobile, data/AI). Emphasis on "obsess over customers", "operate with trust", "own it", "challenge the status quo", "refuse to lose".
- **Diversity of locations**: Offices worldwide and some remote roles within the US.

## Sources
1. [Fireblocks.com](https://www.fireblocks.com/)
2. [Fireblocks Careers](https://www.fireblocks.com/careers)
3. [Fireblocks About](https://www.fireblocks.com/about)
4. [Fireblocks LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fireblocks)
5. [Fireblocks Open Positions](https://www.fireblocks.com/careers/current-openings)

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