Associate Vice President, Security Engineering & Operations

Associate Vice President, Security Engineering & Operations Job ID 2026-14261 # of Openings 1 Job Locations Remote - U.S. Category Legal & Information Security Salary Range Min Salary = USD $247,434.00/Yr.Max Salary = USD $284,841.00/Yr. Overview Associate Vice President (AVP), Security Engineering & Operations Location: Remote - US Work Model: Remote About the Role This is a high-visibility leadership opportunity to build and scale a modern, AI-enabled security engineering and operations function at a global leader in content intelligence. The Associate Vice President (AVP), Security Engineering & Operations owns the strategy, architecture, and execution behind Hyland's security engineering and operations program - protecting the business, enabling engineering, compliance, and adjacent security teams, and reducing operational friction across the enterprise. Reporting to the CISO, this role embeds security into asset management, cloud operations, infrastructure, and automated workflows while driving continuous improvements in security posture, resilience, and incident readiness. The AVP leads the Security Operations Center (SOC), Enterprise and Cloud Security initiatives, and offensive/defensive security operations, partnering across the business to align security investment with enterprise growth, customer commitments, and innovation goals. Here's What You'll Do - Build and lead a highly efficient, AI-enabled Security Operations Center (SOC), delivering threat detection, exposure management, posture management, incident response, and digital forensics capabilities; define and own KPIs for SOC performance including MTTD, MTTR, and SLA adherence, driving measurable and continuous improvement - Champion the adoption of AI and automation across security operations to sharpen detection accuracy, reduce alert noise, and scale coverage without linear headcount growth - Direct and approve the design of enterprise security systems including zero trust architecture, network segmentation, and identity security; drive offensive and defensive security operations including red team engagements and blue team resilience to continuously test and strengthen Hyland's security posture - Lead end-to-end ownership of multi-faceted and distributed vulnerability management programs, including prioritization frameworks and release gates tied to business risk; serve as a strategic partner to engineering, cloud, and infrastructure teams to embed security into system design, automation pipelines, and operational workflows - Set the vision for the Security Engineering & Operations function, collaborating with senior management to define departmental strategy, roadmap, and budget; develop future leaders and build a management team bench capable of meeting the demands of rapid growth, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement - Act as an escalation point for complex, high-severity security issues and remove obstacles for security and stakeholder teams; partner across the business to align security investment with enterprise growth, customer commitments, and innovation goals Technology Tools - Multi-Cloud Environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) - Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) / CSPM - Identity & Access Management (IAM) / PAM - Threat Intelligence Platforms - Vulnerability & Exposure Management Tooling - CI/CD Pipelines - SIEM / SOAR Platforms - EDR / XDR Solutions - Zero Trust Architecture Role Essentials Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, engineering, or a related field, with 15+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity or engineering leadership, including at least 5 years in SaaS cloud-native envir