Tech Ops Lead: Compliance, DevOps & Integrations

Strategic Education, Inc; United States; On-site; USD 119,000 - 179,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Strategic Education, Inc. (SEI) seeks a Sr. Manager, Technical Operations to lead Compliance, Integration & Support, and DevOps across Sophia Learning and Workforce Edge. This role owns the operational backbone, ensuring SOC1, SOC2, and SOX compliance, reliable data integrations, and robust CI/CD infrastructure.

The candidate will manage a hands-on, high-performing team, drive scalability, and partner with security, legal, and engineering to maintain platform reliability and security.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical operations, DevOps, Compliance, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or DevSecOps
• 4+ years of experience managing technical teams
• 2+ years of experience with SOC1, SOC2, or SOX compliance processes
• 2+ years of hands-on or management experience in GCP or AWS
• Experience managing data integrations or API-based partner ecosystems preferred

Responsibilities

• Support SOC1 and SOC2 compliance activities for Sophia Learning and Workforce Edge, partnering with the Head of Security & Data Privacy.
• Coordinate technical evidence gathering, control documentation, and remediation activities across the technical operations team.
• Support SOX compliance efforts by providing technical inputs and ensuring timely responses to audit requests.
• Partner with security, internal audit, and legal teams to identify gaps and drive continuous improvement of the compliance posture.
• Oversee data flow pipelines and integrations with partners and education providers, including API development and onboarding.
• Lead the DevOps function: CI/CD pipelines, IaC, cloud management, monitoring, and incident management.

Skills

Compliance & audits

Data integrations

DevOps leadership

AWS & GCP

CI/CD

Automation scripts

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

API Development

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Strategic Education, Inc. (SEI) seeks a Sr. Manager, Technical Operations to lead Compliance, Integration & Support, and DevOps across Sophia Learning and Workforce Edge. This role owns the operational backbone, ensuring SOC1, SOC2, and SOX compliance, reliable data integrations, and robust CI/CD infrastructure.

The candidate will manage a hands-on, high-performing team, drive scalability, and partner with security, legal, and engineering to maintain platform reliability and security.