Security Operations Leader — Incident Response & Strategy

Strayer Education, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 134,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life and LTD

Tuition assistance

401(k) retirement benefit

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid time off & holidays

Parental leave

Disability plans

Job summary

Strategic Education, Inc. (SEI) seeks a senior leader to direct the Information Security Operations and Compliance program. You will guide frontline analysts, drive incident response, and translate strategic security objectives into actionable roadmaps across IT, Development, and business units.

The role emphasizes risk-based security, governance, and continuous improvement, with responsibilities extending to auditing, awareness, BC/DR coordination, and senior leadership reporting.

Qualifications

• Must have progressive information security leadership experience.
• Experience guiding incident response and security operations.
• Demonstrated ability to translate security strategy into delivery roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations of a security operations team for monitoring and response.
• Escalate and participate in incident response to rapidly contain events.
• Foster urgency, accountability, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Drive improvements in detection, response, playbooks, tooling and maturity.
• Partner with IT, Dev, and business leaders to operationalize security strategy.
• Oversee governance, risk, and compliance activities and audit readiness.
• Provide regular leadership reporting on metrics and program maturity.

Skills

Security Operations Leadership

Incident Response Management

Program & People Leadership

Mentoring & Staff Development

Information Security Governance

IT Risk Management

IT Compliance & Regulatory Oversight

IT Audit & General Controls

NIST RMF

SOX & SOC Controls

Metrics & Reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / Cybersecurity

Job description

Strategic Education, Inc. (SEI) seeks a senior leader to direct the Information Security Operations and Compliance program. You will guide frontline analysts, drive incident response, and translate strategic security objectives into actionable roadmaps across IT, Development, and business units.

The role emphasizes risk-based security, governance, and continuous improvement, with responsibilities extending to auditing, awareness, BC/DR coordination, and senior leadership reporting.