Director of DevSecOps

February 25

🗽 New York – Remote

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💵 $200k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Scholastic

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Scholastic is a leading educational publisher known for providing books, educational materials, and digital solutions to schools, teachers, parents, and children. They offer a wide range of products including book clubs, book fairs, educational magazines, and digital learning tools designed to support literacy and inspire a love of reading in students. Scholastic is dedicated to creating resources that promote learning and literacy and frequently collaborates with educators to enhance classroom libraries and learning environments. "Every Order Gives Back to the Class" is one of their commitments, ensuring that each purchase contributes free books and resources to schools. The company also offers eGift cards and various subscription services aimed at supporting children's development and fostering a community of readers both at home and in schools.

Publishing • Children's Books • Education • Media

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1920

📚 Education

📱 Media

🛒 Retail

📋 Description

• The Director of DevSecOps provides strategic leadership over infrastructure, operations, and security for the Education Engineering division at Scholastic. • This role ensures high product availability, security, and reliability while optimizing operating costs. • The Director will lead a team responsible for development and production environments, DevOps tooling, cloud infrastructure, and operational excellence. • This role also oversees the Architecture Team, which includes four Architects responsible for applications security, data privacy, and system architecture. • The Director of DevSecOps plays a key role in incident response, including executive communications, root cause analysis, and retrospective discussions. • Additionally, they will own the annual SOC 2 audit and contribute to vendor evaluations, security assessments, and infrastructure strategy.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong process orientation, ability to create and manage/optimize processes and apply continuous improvement practices, establish meaningful measurement and metric approaches. • Strong leadership and management experience, with the ability to mentor and guide teams across infrastructure, DevOps, and security disciplines. • Deep expertise in cloud computing, particularly AWS, including cost optimization and infrastructure automation. • Strong understanding and ability to apply the principles of cybersecurity at the network, infrastructure, tech stack, and software development layers. • Demonstrated success in building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to improve software delivery speed and reliability. • Strong understanding of Agile product development and DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering principles. • Proven ability to support incident response, manage stakeholder communications, and lead root cause investigations. • Strong grasp of security best practices across infrastructure, networks, and applications. • Exceptional strategic thinking and decision-making skills, particularly in vendor evaluations and build vs. buy considerations. • Excellent communication skills, including technical documentation, executive presentations, and cross-functional collaboration.

🏖️ Benefits

• Full suite of health and wellness benefits (including a $0 deductible Medical Plan) • Retirement Savings Plan 401(k) with options for both Roth and Traditional Contributions • Tuition-Free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees • Generous Parental Leave Program • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with opportunity for discounted stock at a 15% discount