Senior Manager, Cybersecurity and Operations

Accela

Senior Manager leading cybersecurity operations and team at Accela. Managing incident response and enhancing security posture across corporate and cloud environments.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityFirewallsGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the cybersecurity operations and security engineering function across corporate, cloud, hybrid, and production environments.
Manage and develop security engineers and analysts responsible for monitoring, detection, response, infrastructure security, vulnerability management, and operational security controls.
Own monitoring, detection, and response capabilities, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, DLP, vulnerability management, firewall, WAF, email security, identity security, and cloud security tooling.
Serve as the operational control point during significant cybersecurity incidents, coordinating response across Security, IT, Engineering, Legal, Communications, GRC, and executive stakeholders.
Develop, maintain, and test incident response playbooks, escalation paths, tabletop exercises, on-call procedures, and post-incident review processes.
Lead post-incident reviews and ensure root-cause remediation, lessons learned, and control improvements are completed.
Evaluate, implement, and optimize security solutions across endpoint, identity, network, email, cloud, logging, detection, and response platforms.
Partner with IT and Engineering to strengthen cloud, hybrid, and corporate security controls, including identity, network segmentation, key management, secrets management, privileged access, endpoint hardening, and secure configuration management.
Support GovRAMP and PCI DSS control requirements related to logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, endpoint security, access control, encryption, cloud security, configuration management, and evidence collection.
Drive measurable risk reduction across infrastructure, endpoints, cloud environments, identity systems, and business-critical services.
Own operational vulnerability management processes for infrastructure, cloud, endpoint, and corporate systems.
Support business continuity, disaster recovery, and resilience planning from a cybersecurity perspective.
Manage cybersecurity operations budget inputs, including vendor evaluation, renewals, tool rationalization, and investment recommendations.
Develop operational security metrics and reporting for executive leadership, including incident trends, vulnerability risk, detection coverage, response performance, control health, and remediation progress.
Stay ahead of evolving threats, including cloud-native attacks, identity compromise, ransomware, AI-enabled threats, and emerging attacker techniques.
Participate in or manage the security on-call rotation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security operations, security engineering, infrastructure security, cloud security, or incident response.
3+ years of experience leading cybersecurity teams, security operations programs, or technical security initiatives.
Strong working knowledge of SIEM, EDR/XDR, DLP, WAF, vulnerability management, firewalls, email security, identity security, and cloud security tooling.
Experience securing cloud, hybrid, and corporate environments across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience leading or coordinating incident response for material cybersecurity events.
Strong understanding of identity security, network segmentation, endpoint security, logging, detection engineering, vulnerability management, and key/secret management.
Demonstrated ability to deliver security initiatives that produce measurable risk reduction.
Experience managing vendors, evaluating security tools, and making build/buy recommendations.
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain operational security risk to technical and executive audiences.

Benefits

Comp & perks

flexible time off
comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
family planning benefits
401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
health savings account with company contributions
flexible spending account
life, accident, and disability coverage
business travel insurance
employee assistance programs
other well-being benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

cybersecuritysecurity operationssecurity engineeringinfrastructure securitycloud securityincident responsevulnerability managementdetection engineeringidentity securitynetwork segmentation

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationteam managementincident coordinationrisk reductionvendor managementbudget managementoperational metrics developmentstakeholder engagementproblem-solving