Director, (Cyber) Security Operations

Apply now!; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

401k match

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Employee healthcare premium covered

Flexible work environment - onsite and

Job summary

Relias in North Carolina's Morrisville headquarters seeks a Director of (Cyber) Security Operations to lead and mature the security operations function, directing monitoring, detection, response, and resilience across enterprise, cloud, and endpoints.

You'll partner with legal, privacy, compliance, and business leaders to align with risk priorities, build a high-performing team, and drive automation and metrics. On-site with flexible work options, Relias values collaboration and growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in cybersecurity or related roles.
• 5+ years in security operations leadership.
• Experience with SOC operations and managed vendors.
• Experience leading major incidents and post-incident remediation.
• Experience with vulnerability operations and tooling strategy.
• Experience developing operational metrics and dashboards.
• Experience managing technical teams and cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic direction and roadmap for security operations.
• Oversee SOC capabilities across enterprise, cloud, endpoints, and networks.
• Direct end-to-end incident response lifecycle.
• Establish operational processes and playbooks for security events.
• Lead vulnerability remediation governance with teams.
• Manage SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and related tooling.
• Drive detection engineering and automation to reduce noise.
• Coordinate with legal, privacy, and leadership during incidents.
• Support digital forensics and threat hunting as needed.
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, and IT to strengthen controls.
• Lead reviews with MSPs/vendors and coach teams.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Security operations

Incident response

Threat detection

Vulnerability management

SOC management

Automation and tooling

Executive reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Team development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering

Master's degree in Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR/XDR

Case management

Threat intelligence

Email security

Job description

Are you looking for a high energy, strategic, and fast-paced position with an impactful and mission-driven company? Join Relias, the company changing lives throughout the world by helping healthcare organizations improve their clinical and financial outcomes!

For 11,000+ health care and human service organizations, Relias helps clientsdeliverbetter clinical and financial outcomes by elevating the performance of teams. We help organizations across the continuum of care get better at maintaining compliance, developing staff and promoting consistent, high-quality care. Our platform employs assessments to reveal specific gaps in skills and addresses them with personalized and engaging learning, choosing from 7,000+ online courses that meet accrediting board, state and federal requirements. We are passionate about our products and our clients; what we deliver and the impact we have on the world is truly something you can be proud to represent. Join us and make a difference.

WHAT CAN RELIAS OFFER YOU?

• Fantastic health and wellness benefits package, including an outstanding 401k match, a flexible PTO program, and a generous and inclusive parental leave policy. Additionally, Relias pays for the employee portion of the monthly healthcare premium!
• Flexible work environment with onsite and work from home options – you choose when you want to come into the office!
• Active Employee Resource Groups open to all employees!
• Comprehensive onboarding program – a great introduction to our company, customers and culture!
• Growth and career advancement opportunities!
  • Multiple development program options – leadership development, professional development curriculums, and Nanodegree options in both technology and data science
  • Professional development gained from conference attendance and participation in organizations like NC Tech
  • Onsite 321 Coffee Shop providing free coffee and pastries to employees

Job Description

The Director of (Cyber) Security Operations is a cyber leadership role responsible for establishing, directing, and continuously maturing the organization’s security operations capabilities to detect, prevent, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats and incidents. This role provides strategic and operational leadership across security monitoring, incident detection and response, threat intelligence, vulnerability operations, logging and telemetry management, and security operations tooling. The Director partners closely with infrastructure, cloud, application, architecture, legal, privacy, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure operational security capabilities are aligned with enterprise risk priorities, regulatory obligations, and business resiliency requirements. The role is accountable for building and leading a high-performing operations team, defining operational procedures and escalation protocols, driving continuous improvement through automation and metrics, and ensuring the organization can rapidly identify and address cyber events in a manner that protects systems, data, customers, and business operations.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Lead the strategic direction, operating model, and maturity roadmap for the security operations function, including monitoring, detection, response, and operational resilience activities.
• Oversee security operations center (SOC) capabilities, whether internal, outsourced, or hybrid, and ensure monitoring coverage for critical enterprise, cloud, endpoint, identity, network, and application environments.
• Direct the end-to-end incident response lifecycle, including triage, investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, escalation, and post-incident lessons learned.
• Establish and maintain operational processes, standard operating procedures, escalation criteria, and playbooks for security events, incidents, and crisis situations.
• Lead and improve vulnerability operations in partnership with infrastructure, engineering, and application teams, including prioritization, remediation oversight, exception handling, and reporting.
• Manage and optimize core detection and response technologies such as SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, case management, threat intelligence, email security, and related operational tooling.
• Drive detection engineering, use-case development, alert tuning, and automation initiatives to improve fidelity, reduce noise, and accelerate response times.
• Coordinate with legal, privacy, compliance, human resources, communications, and executive leadership during significant cybersecurity incidents and investigations.
• Support digital forensics, threat hunting, and root cause analysis efforts as needed for material incidents or suspicious activity.
• Partner with security architecture, engineering, and IT operations teams to improve control effectiveness, close operational gaps, and strengthen preventive and detective capabilities.
• Lead service reviews and performance oversight for managed security service providers, technology vendors, and other external partners supporting operational security functions.
• Coach, develop, and performance-manage analysts, engineers, and operational leaders while fostering a resilient, accountable, and continuously improving team culture.

Qualifications

YOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES IF YOU HAVE/ARE:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information security, or related technology roles.
• 5+ years of leadership experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, or a comparable cyber operations function.
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading security monitoring and incident response programs in a mid-sized or large enterprise environment.
• Experience managing or overseeing SOC operations, including internal teams, managed security service providers, or hybrid operational models.
• Experience leading significant cybersecurity incidents, investigations, and post-incident remediation efforts.
• Experience with vulnerability operations, remediation governance, and security operations tooling strategy and optimization.
• Experience developing operational metrics, executive dashboards, and performance reporting for leadership audiences.
• Experience managing technical teams, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders in support of enterprise security objectives.

EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION PREFERRED:

• Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, GCIA, GCIH, or other relevant security operations, incident response, or leadership credentials.
• Experience in SaaS, cloud-native, highly regulated, or customer-facing technology environments.
• Experience aligning operational practices to recognized frameworks or standards such as NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-61, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, or other applicable requirements.
• Experience building or maturing detection engineering, threat hunting, digital forensics, or crisis management capabilities.
• Experience supporting customer-facing security reviews, external audits, or regulatory examinations involving operational controls.

Additional Information

IN OFFICE REQUIREMENT:

Relias values collaboration and wants to ensure that our team members have opportuniites to work with their managers regularly for professional development opportunities. This role requires that you live in the state of North Carolina, within a commutable distance to our office. You would be expected to work in our Morrisville, NC Headquarters approximately 40 days/quarter.

Relias is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free workplace. Relias welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities and is happy to make reasonable accommodations in all aspects of the selection process. If you are an individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please visit our career page for instructions.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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