Senior Manager, Information Security

About the role

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency‑based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student‑focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, execution, and continuous evolution of the organization's security infrastructure and architecture strategy with a focus on scalable, secure‑by‑design solutions.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership across AWS cloud environments, enterprise infrastructure, applications, and hybrid technology ecosystems.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and improvement of security controls, tools, platforms, and processes that protect enterprise systems, applications, users, and data.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of security engineers and technical professionals while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Partner closely with cloud engineering, enterprise architecture, DevOps, risk, compliance, and business teams to integrate security into architecture, development, and deployment practices.
• Evaluate emerging security technologies and recommend solutions that improve visibility, reduce risk, and strengthen security capabilities.
• Lead complex security initiatives and cross‑functional programs while managing technology roadmaps, vendor relationships, and security platform investments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and 7 years of Information Security experience or 10 years industry experience working in security.
• Hands‑on experience in Security Infrastructure Management.
• 3+ years of leadership experience, which can be a combination of people and/or program leadership.
• One or more industry security certifications (CISSP, CISA, CISM, or CRISC).
• Deep knowledge of security infrastructure, cloud security architecture, and enterprise security engineering principles.
• Strong hands‑on experience securing AWS environments, including IAM, VPCs, security groups, network segmentation, encryption, logging, monitoring, detection, and cloud‑native security services.
• Experience leading security architecture or security engineering initiatives across enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, applications, or hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related field (preferred).
• Preferred certification in CISM.
• Experience leading cloud security architecture in a large, complex, or regulated environment.
• Familiarity with modern security approaches including DevSecOps, Zero Trust, and infrastructure automation.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare.
• Health savings account and flexible spending account.
• Basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage.
• Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages.
• Legal and identity theft coverage.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Wellbeing program.
• Discounted WGU tuition.
• Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation (no accrual needed).
• Flexible paid sick time (no accrual needed).
• 11 paid holidays.
• Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
• Eligible for bonuses.

Pay

Grade: Management Technical 714 – Pay Range: $151,800.00 – $250,500.00. At WGU it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range; compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case.

Schedule

Full‑time, in‑office position requiring five days per week in the Raleigh, NC office. Occasional travel of up to 20% is required, including attendance at designated company summits (typically one to two per year) and other business‑related events as needed.