Cyber Risk Manager Jobs in Oregon (NOW HIRING)

Job Description

As a Cyber Resilience Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for strengthening the organization's ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyber incidents and other disruptive events. Your primary focus will extend beyond traditional disaster recovery to include designing and implementing resilience strategies that maintain the continuity, integrity, and availability of critical IT services under adverse conditions.
You will develop and enhance resilience capabilities such as redundancy, automated failover, immutable backups, cyberrecovery architectures, and continuity-by-design patterns. You will also lead exercises and simulations to validate resilience posture, identify weaknesses, and drive continuous improvement across systems and processes.
Collaboration is central to this role. You will work closely with architects, system engineers, security teams, and operational leaders to identify critical business services, understand their dependencies, assess resilience gaps, and design strategies that reduce the impact of disruptions. You will also partner with business stakeholders to ensure resilience objectives align with organizational priorities and regulatory expectations.
To be successful, you should have deep experience in cyber resilience and continuity engineering, including modern cloudnative resilience patterns, backup and recovery solutions, replication and failover strategies, zerotrustaligned recovery approaches, and containerized or distributed service architectures. Strong project leadership skills are essential, as you will coordinate resilience initiatives across multiple teams and environments.
Additionally, you should have excellent communication and stakeholdermanagement skills, as you will be responsible for guiding teams through resilience planning, readiness assessments, and incident response activities. A solid understanding of relevant frameworks-such as NIST CSF, NIST 80034, ISO 27031, ISO 22301, COBIT, and ITIL-is important to ensure alignment with industry standards and regulatory requirements.Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Lead cyber resilience and IT risk assessments, including tabletop exercises and continuity simulations.
• Coordinate and oversee resilience and recovery testing, ensuring plans are followed, issues are logged, and results are communicated to stakeholders.
• Support enterprise preparedness and response efforts for cyber incidents and operational disruptions impacting Stride.
• Partner with leadership and technical teams to identify resilience gaps, validate requirements, and design solutions that meet or exceed RTO/RPO targets.
• Document resilience and recovery processes across Stride's technology environment to ensure alignment with business, client, and audit expectations.
• Contribute to the development and execution of Stride's Resiliency & Chaos Engineering strategy, including processes, tooling, and testing frameworks.
• Ensure resilience capabilities - redundancy, failover, backups, and cyber-recovery solutions - are properly designed, maintained, and validated.
• Maintain Disaster Recovery and Cyber Resilience Plans, report readiness to leadership, and track remediation efforts to closure.
• Provide expert guidance and coordinate cross-functional teams in developing, documenting and validating recovery and resilience procedures.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.Minimum Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years' experience supporting or performing a Business Continuity Management or IT Disaster Recovery role.
• Bachelor's degree and/or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Understanding of Cloud infrastructure, database, and application development and design.
• Independent, action-oriented and engagement focused on identifying ways to improve resiliency.
• Functional knowledge of frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27031 & ISO 22301, COBIT, and ITIL.
• Experience working with SRE, DiRT, and Chaos Engineering practices.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery planning techniques, technologies and best practices, methods used in performing risk analysis and business impact analyses.
• Strong familiarity with AWS services relevant to DR/HA and resilient architectures, including AWS Config, CloudFormation, Load Balancers, Autoscaling, AWS Resilience Hub, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.
• Experience working with enterprise Risk Management solutions (Such as ServiceNow, Archer, Resolver, etc.)

Desired Qualifications:

• Domain Knowledge of Chaos Engineering / Fault Injection and Disaster Recovery best practices.
• Skilled on Compute and Storage topology, design, and administration in a Microsoft/Unix/Linux environment.
• Understanding of AWS Regions and Availability Zone concepts, including relationship of various AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.).
• Experience working in an enterprise IT environment (on prem & cloud), evaluating IT system resiliency via recovery plans inclusive of logical and physical (Visio) diagrams.
• Possesses strong analytical skills to effectively influence recommendations and decision-making, assess impacts, compare solutions, problem solve, and achieve business and/or technical objectives.
• Ability to act as a change agent, leads and welcomes innovative ideas and drives continuous improvement and service optimization.

Desired Certificates:

• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect

OTHER Qualifications:

• This is a remote-based position. Employee will be required to have appropriate local services to work from home on a fulltime basis.
• Experience working with project management tools that support Agile environments (Jira/Confluence).
• Ability to work independently and without direct supervision.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time.
• Pass required background check.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.

Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person's education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position's work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee's salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position's level and expected contribution, and the employee's benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.

• We anticipate the salary range to be $81,045.75- $155,000. The upper end of this range is not likely to be offered, as an individual's compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is "at-will" as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the "at-will" nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

Job Type

Regular

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is "at-will" as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the "at-will" nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you can request the appropriate accommodation by contacting stridecareers@k12.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Stride, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Stride, Inc. complies with all legally required affirmative action obligations. Applicants will not be discriminated against because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.