Vice President – Information Security and Infrastructure

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $240k / year

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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American College of Education

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

📚 Education

🏥 Healthcare

Education • Healthcare

American College of Education is a primarily online, accredited higher-education institution focused on affordable, career-oriented programs for adult learners. ACE offers a wide range of programs across degree levels — bachelor’s, master’s, education specialist (Ed. S. ), doctoral (Ed. D. , DBA), certificates, and micro-credentials — with strong emphasis on education, nursing, healthcare, business, and leadership fields. The college provides licensure pathways, partner solutions for K–12 schools, higher education and healthcare organizations, and student support services designed for working professionals seeking flexible, competency-focused credentials.

📋 Description

• Lead ACE’s enterprise cybersecurity, technology risk, infrastructure, and operational resilience efforts • Report to the Chief Information Officer and advise executive leadership and Board committees • Define and execute multi-year cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, identity, and resilience strategies • Serve as senior executive authority for enterprise cybersecurity risk • Own the cybersecurity program, roadmap, governance framework, policies, standards, risk register, and remediation portfolio • Establish security requirements for identity, data protection, encryption, vulnerability management, monitoring, incident response, third-party risk, cloud security, secure development, continuity, disaster recovery, AI, and records retention • Direct security operations, threat monitoring, vulnerability management, identity protection, endpoint and cloud security, incident response, digital forensics coordination, and managed security providers • Serve as executive incident commander for material cybersecurity events • Lead infrastructure and cloud strategy across Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra ID, networks, endpoints, collaboration platforms, backup, recovery, monitoring, and end-user technology • Establish security architecture and security-by-design requirements for technology acquisitions, contracts, implementations, applications, integrations, cloud services, and AI solutions • Define AI risk-tiering, authorization, data protection, audit, monitoring, data loss prevention, and exception requirements • Own enterprise technology resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, crisis management, availability, identity recovery, vendor continuity, and recovery testing • Ensure compliance with higher-education, privacy, contractual, payment-card, and cyber insurance obligations • Sponsor security assessments, penetration tests, audits, maturity reviews, and executive exercises; own remediation responses and evidence • Manage infrastructure and security vendors, contracts, service levels, performance, continuity, and risk • Develop operating and capital budgets, workforce plans, sourcing strategies, and investment business cases • Report executive performance measures covering risk, controls, availability, remediation, incident response, recovery, third-party risk, vendors, employee experience, and maturity • Recruit, lead, coach, and retain infrastructure and security teams • Maintain current knowledge of cyber threats, regulations, cloud and infrastructure practices, and emerging technologies

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, cybersecurity, computer science, business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant executive experience • 15+ years of progressive technology and cybersecurity leadership experience • At least 7 years leading enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, risk, or resilience functions • Accountability for managers, senior technical professionals, and strategic service providers • Experience as a Vice President, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, senior security executive, or equivalent technology executive • Experience developing and executing multi-year cybersecurity and infrastructure strategies, roadmaps, policies, standards, governance models, and investment plans • Deep working knowledge of NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 or comparable security and control practices • Experience with enterprise security policies, control frameworks, risk acceptance, exception governance, regulatory assurance, audit remediation, and executive or Board-level risk reporting • Experience directing material cybersecurity incident response or enterprise crisis exercises • Strong experience with Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra ID, Defender, Purview, Sentinel, Intune, networking, backup and recovery, monitoring, identity and access management, and service management, or comparable enterprise platforms • Leadership of security operations, vulnerability management, data protection, third-party risk, security architecture, business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and security awareness capabilities • Experience applying FERPA, the GLBA Safeguards Rule, PCI DSS, privacy obligations, cyber insurance requirements, and breach-response requirements • Strong executive communication, financial, commercial, budget, business-case, contract negotiation, vendor governance, service-level management, workforce planning, and technology cost optimization skills • Ability to lead organizational change, establish institutional accountability, develop talent, and operate across a distributed, virtual-first organization • CISSP or CISM certification required • CRISC, CCSP, CGEIT, ITIL 4, or relevant Microsoft cloud and security certifications preferred • Must be self-motivated, collaborative, detail-oriented, adaptable, and able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines • Must support and embrace the College’s Impact mission

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus eligibility for full-time employees • Medical, dental, & vision insurance • HSA and FSA options • Paid parental leave • Paid volunteer time • Tuition reimbursement & reduction programs • Generous PTO • 401k and employer match • Full-service wellness and EAP program • Employee recognition and awards programs • Employer-paid life & AD&D insurance • Short-term disability • Employer-paid long-term disability • Virtual-first work environment • Inclusive work environment • Remote work internet service support requirements and flexibility • AI-enabled workplace tools and productivity support

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