[Hiring] Director, Infrastructure & Information Security @Core Education and Consulting Solutions

Role Description

Core Education is seeking a Practice Leader to own our Infrastructure & Information Security Practice. This person is responsible for the teams that deliver Operations, Modernization, and Enablement to our partner colleges and universities — keeping institutional environments running, helping them move forward, and equipping their people to do more with the technology they have.

The practice is the technical foundation our partner institutions rely on every day. It spans:

• Identity and access
• Servers and storage
• Networking and telecom
• Endpoint and A/V
• Monitoring
• Information security program

The Practice Leader sets the strategy, builds and develops the team, owns the financials, and serves as the senior point of accountability to our partner institutions. This role is being opened following the loss of our colleague Pete Brambani, who built much of what the practice is today; the next leader will build on that foundation and shape what comes next.

Qualifications

• Progressive infrastructure and/or information security leadership experience, including several years directly managing technical teams and team leads.
• Strong working background across the Microsoft stack — Active Directory / Entra ID, Windows Server, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Azure.
• Solid grounding in networking and telecom (network design, WiFi, VoIP/SIP, Teams calling) and in modern endpoint management (Intune, SCCM, MDT, MDM) at scale.
• Working command of information security fundamentals — IAM, network security, encryption, incident response — and at least one major framework (NIST, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS).
• Operating experience under ITIL/ITSM and a recognized service-management toolset.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A collaborative, partner-first orientation that fits Core's mission.

Requirements

• Prior experience in higher education or higher-education services.
• Familiarity with the operating context of small and mid-sized institutions.
• Mac-fleet management (Jamf) and modern endpoint patterns.
• Cloud breadth beyond Azure — AWS, GCP, containerization, or serverless.
• Data and reporting fluency (SQL, Power BI, data warehousing) for service analytics.
• Security operations tooling experience (SolarWinds, Splunk, Wireshark) and compliance work in regulated environments (FERPA, GDPR, HIPAA, GLBA).
• Recognized certifications such as ITIL 4 / Practice Manager, PMP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, Microsoft / Azure, or Cisco.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

• Autonomy to shape the practice, the team, and the offerings.
• Opportunity to lead a practice that sits at the heart of Core Education's promise to its partner institutions.
• Support in keeping partner institutions running, helping them modernize, and equipping their people.