About Digital Asset & the Canton Network
Digital Asset builds the technologies that are reshaping the foundations of financial markets. Our mission is to create the world’s most trusted, privacy-enabled, and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance.
At the heart of this mission is the Canton Network - the blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability, Canton enables real-time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes. Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is the proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance.
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Zurich, Budapest, Hong Kong, and Sydney— we are on a mission to transform finance— and that transformation is now playing out rapidly on the Canton Network.
If you’re interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto-capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on-chain, join us.
About the role:
The Associate Director, Security IT Administration is responsible for the day-to-day operation, effectiveness, and continuous improvement of Digital Asset's corporate IT services and infrastructure. The role leads the Security IT Administration team and ensures the organization has secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective technology services to support its global workforce and business operations.
The Associate Director, Security IT Administration translates company and departmental priorities into clear IT goals, manages team capacity and priorities, and ensures high-quality delivery across end-user technology, SaaS applications, identity and access, networking, cloud infrastructure, and IT support.
The role maintains sufficient technical depth to make sound decisions, guide complex initiatives, and partner effectively with Engineering and Security. This leader is also expected to remain hands-on when appropriate, particularly in high-impact technical issues and projects, while primarily leading through the team and establishing an effective, scalable IT operating model.
Responsibilities:
IT Team Leadership
Leads, develops, and retains the Security IT Administration team, establishing clear responsibilities, goals, priorities, and performance expectations
Manages/supports team capacity and workload to ensure resources are aligned with business priorities and operational needs
Coaches and develops team members, providing regular feedback, performance management, and career development support
Establishes a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Determines appropriate allocation of work across team members, automation, Enterprise Support, and external vendors
Builds team capabilities and plans for future hiring as Digital Asset's technology environment and workforce grow
IT Operations & Service Delivery
Owns delivery of corporate IT services and infrastructure, including end-user technology, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Atlassian, Zoom, Slack, GitHub, DNS, networking, VPN, and AWS, GCP, and Azure environments
Establishes and maintains IT operating processes, documentation, service standards, and escalation paths
Monitors service quality, reliability, security, and responsiveness and proactively addresses operational issues
Ensures IT services are appropriately scalable, documented, and resilient as the company grows
Develops automation and self-service capabilities for IT requests and partners with Enterprise Support to improve HelpDesk scalability and service delivery
Resolves cross-team dependencies and tactical misalignments and escalates material strategic risks with proposed solutions
Security & Risk
Partners with the Security Engineering team to maintain an accurate inventory of IT assets, deploy security tools, and coordinate patching and remediation of identified…