Cybersecurity Engineer

Position Type:
Information Technology/Cybersecurity Engineer

Date Posted:
10/28/2021

Location:
Educational Support Center

Date Available:
ASAP

Closing Date:
Open Until Filled

SALARY INFORMATION: Grade L06 ($64,415 - $119,627)
STANDARD HOURS PER WEEK: 40
FTE: 1.0
MONTHS PER YEAR: 12
JOB CODE: 130902
POSITION TYPE: New
LOCATION: Thornton, CO

SUMMARY: The Cybersecurity Engineer will work across a range of operational resilience, resource planning, security analytics, threat assessment, forensics, and incident response activities to support appropriate levels of cybersecurity at the District, working with the IT leadership team to review and address risks and provide efficient and effective solutions, always with a customer service focus. The Cybersecurity Engineer will employ strong communications and organizational skills to design and maintain processes, procedures, policies, project plans, and communications strategies that ensure that timely, actionable and critical information is presented to IT leadership, and that IT customers are well informed of their responsibilities to ensure appropriate information security and related compliance across the district.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Security Operations, Maintenance, & Defense: Provide systems defense, troubleshooting, timely incident response, forensics, investigation, log analysis, URL filter tuning, and solution designs across the district-wide sets of systems. The range of systems that the Cybersecurity Engineer is responsible for includes any technological infrastructure where the District has risk including, diverse server operating systems, various types of virtualization, streaming media and transactional services, network management systems, security infrastructure, wireless/wired clients, Guest and BYOD access, secure transaction systems, education environments, radio communications and related infrastructure. Provide scripting, automated response, automated deployment, and remote servicing options to the district to support these systems.
2. Policy & Strategy: Ensure a strong information assurance posture for the district by developing strategy, contributing to institutional policy, researching technologies, testing infrastructure, and implementing security designs in support of the district's systems architecture. Develop plans to implement vulnerability analysis, threat analytics, incident response and testing procedures, and implement training to maintain security readiness. Do this by implementing designs, processes, configurations, and technologies based on international and federal standards, RFCs, peer best practices, and other standards sources in additional to current professional practice and due diligence appropriate for the District. Provide evaluation of strategic options of cybersecurity services, auditing, vulnerability testing, consulting, and partnerships to fulfill a range of District Cybersecurity options, while performing "build or buy" options analysis.
3. Leadership in Practice: Provide exemplary cybersecurity leadership for the IT department and the District as a whole by instituting and modeling good cybersecurity practice, sharing expertise and collaborating with key teams and architects across IT, providing high quality technical configurations and practices, preparing end-user communications, helping to develop policy, and contributing technical solutions that efficiently and effectively enhance the districts cybersecurity. Engage in professional development in order to maintain currency of understanding and awareness of innovative technology options for the district in regards to this practice.
4. Resilience Planning: Ensure that the district has the technical resources, resilient design, change management, proactive testing procedures, and physical infrastructure to minimize disruption or impairment of service, achieve regulatory compliance, information assurance, operations resilience, support for innovative education practices, and other district interests at the highest possible levels as it maintains high quality customer service in an ever changing environment. Assess and report on the district's situation in relation to these requirements and present strategies for ensuring that these requirements are met and that shortcomings are mitigated or otherwise addressed.
5. Collaborative Service Quality: Work with district stakeholders, IT architects and IT leadership to design SLAs, cybersecurity policies and ensure that the district infrastructure can meet these requirements across enterprise application environments, computing resources, network availability, and related resources that fulfill district objectives. This environment includes virtual systems, multi-site datacenter resilience, and support for highly integrated sets of systems providing HR/Financial ERP, messaging, District security, education data, storage, telephony, database, remote access, education, and business services.
6. Research: Research and provide security evaluation for new technologies and technology providers to ensure that the district makes secure and yet cost effective technical choices in systems, services, and strategies. Produce cogent and well-referenced reports that inform district security planning, identify risk, clarify opportunity cost, and assess total cost of solution ownership. Facilitate fair and meaningful evaluation of security technology choices through research, RFP, technical review, risk audits, use case proof of concept, vulnerability testing, and user acceptance methods.
7. Architecture & Engineering: Provide and implement cybersecurity design and engineering solutions that support a forward-looking enterprise systems and lead to secure network, systems, and data footprint. Perform the business analysis necessary to ensure that these cybersecurity technologies, solutions, and implementations meet the District's compliance, privacy, availability, and business continuity needs at a scale appropriate for the District.
8. Professional Currency: Work under the direction of IT leadership to establish and maintain professional affiliations and strategic relationships with incident response organizations, professional organizations, regulatory bodies, standards organizations, vendors, and other organizations of strategic importance to the district to ensure that the department is aware of industry best practices and is well informed in regards to service opportunities, cybersecurity issues and innovations that might have impact on the district.
9. Reporting and Transparency: Work with IT leadership to design and maintain logging, monitoring, alert, and reporting policies and procedures that provide the CITO and I.T. directors, architects and managers with timely and actionable information related to enterprise security design, system vulnerabilities, security trends and use cases.
10. Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, systems administration, information systems, or related area. Four (4) additional years of similar and relevant experience may be substituted for this requirement.
• Minimum of three (3) years' experience implementing and supporting cybersecurity technologies, especially in areas of systems security, network defense, forensics, incident response, monitoring, vulnerability analysis, and policy/process development at institutions of similar scale to Adams 12.
• Experience with operations and maintenance of key IT infrastructure in one or more of the following areas: desktop management, virtualization, storage, digital data communications, application server support, wired/wireless networks, software development, and systems integration preferred.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS or CERTIFICATIONS:
• Criminal background check required for hire.
• Preference for candidates with maintain current certifications relevant to cybersecurity such as CISSP.

SALARY INFORMATION:The salary listed is for full time positions (1.0 FTE). This salary will be adjusted, as needed, based upon the FTE. Administrative employees' salary will be commensurate on the employees' education and/or work experience. For additional information, please review our Administrative Compensation Program or review our IT Administrative Salary Schedule.

BENEFITS INFORMATION:
Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as other programs for benefit eligible employees. The employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance through PERA, and 401(k), 403(b) & 457(b) plans are available to all employees regardless of hours worked and are available immediately (upon hire date).

To learn more about our benefits, including paid time off, please see our Benefits Overview.

APPLICATION INFORMATION:
All applicants (current district employees and external applicants) should list any and all work experience, including current district experience, when completing the employment application. Please include job titles and duties that you held while doing that job. Since the Human Resource department uses the application to screen for minimum qualifications required for each job, it is important to have a complete application so you will be considered for the position you are applying for.

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