Deputy Director For IT Security

 
Work for Indiana
 

Begin a fulfilling career with the State of Indiana by joining one of the largest employers in the state, offering a diverse range of opportunities across 60+ agencies. At the state, you'll find competitive compensation, a robust benefits package and a commitment to work-life balance. Most importantly, you'll have the chance to make a real and measurable impact on the lives of Hoosiers across Indiana.

At the State of Indiana, we don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion—we make it our goal to create a welcoming, accessible, and equitable workplace with a workforce that is representative of Indiana's population. As a proud equal opportunity employer, reasonable accommodations may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to complete the application and interview process as well as perform the essential functions of a role.

About the Indiana Office of Technology (IOT):

The Indiana Office of Technology provides cost-effective, secure, consistent, reliable enterprise-technology services to our partner agencies so that they can better serve our mutual customer, the Hoosier taxpayer. IOT will also act as the technology and solution enabler for the State, helping its partner agencies achieve business objectives and innovation.
 

Salary:

This position traditionally starts at an annual salary of $93,002.  Salary for this position may be commensurate with education and job experience.
 

Role Overview:

Reporting to the Director of Security Operations, the Deputy/Assistant IT Director will manage the people, processes, and technology related to the State of Indiana’s security posture.  

The Deputy Director will oversee the development and management of teams for on-site, cloud, identity and access management, and data security to evaluate and optimize the effectiveness of security tools. The information will be leveraged to communicate and collaborate with other technology business areas and state agencies to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities.

A Day in the Life:

The essential functions of this role are as follows: 

-Lead and mentor a team of security operations staff responsible for managing security tools, and configurations, and working with other IOT teams to ensure consistency in design and support. 
-Provide tactical leadership for the current operational security day-to-day needs, understand strategic direction, and lead the team forward in adopting standard and repeatable processes and flows to remediate issues proactively.  
-Lead security-driven project initiatives to collaborate with other teams and ensure solutions are compatible with existing infrastructure and operational support models. 
-Work directly with the leadership, IT leads, business relationship management, and state agencies regarding operational security, including remediation of issues, communication of policy, working together to build better, and collaborating as trusted partners.
-Identify, understand, communicate, document, and mitigate security risks.
-Establish and maintain an off-hours support model for security operations including tooling support incident response participation.
-Develop strategic metrics that can provide CISO, CIO, and agencies a current state view of security.  This includes monthly progress, inventory management, remediation of vulnerabilities, and implementation of security standards including CIS, NIST, and Zero Trust.
 

The job profile is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

What You'll Need for Success:

You must meet the following requirements to be considered for employment: 

-Strong leadership skills with the ability to positively influence culture change, work with resources that may or may not be direct reports, elicit adoption of forward-thinking concepts, influence change, and implement successful programs.
-Ability to take vision to mission to goals.
-Excellent communication skills, verbal, written, and presentational, and able to collaborate across all levels of leadership, including customers and colleagues in a highly political environment. 
-Prior experience understanding IT people, processes, and technologies.
-Ability to map current state, conduct gap analysis, and generate strategies to lead teams, projects, and programs for implementation and organizational adoption. 
-A bachelor’s degree in a related field is preferable, but industry experience and acquired relative skills are sufficient.
-Able to understand technical and security-related concepts and then translate them into terms that all customers can understand and act upon. 
-Strong collaboration skills with the ability to look at the ‘art of what is possible.’ 
-Strong data analytics skills with the ability to look at metrics, understand outcomes, and translate them into business storylines and roadmaps.
-Ability to look and react with a ‘glass half full’ mentality.

Supervisory Responsibilities/Direct Reports:

This role may provide direct supervision for one or more staff members.
 

Benefits of Employment with the State of Indiana:
 

The State of Indiana offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees which includes: 

-Three (3) medical plan options (including RX coverage) as well as vision and dental plans
-Wellness Rewards Program: Complete wellness activities to earn gift card rewards
-Health savings account, which includes bi-weekly state contribution
-Flexible work scheduling options, including the potential for hybrid remote work for employees whose work may be performed outside state facilities
-Deferred compensation 457B account (similar to 401k plan) with employer match
-Two (2) fully-funded pension plan options
-A robust, comprehensive program of leave policies covering a variety of employee needs, including but not limited to:

-150 hours of paid new parent leave
-Up to 15 hours of paid community service leave
-Combined 180 hours of paid vacation, personal, and sick leave time off
-12 paid holidays, 14 on election years
-Education Reimbursement Program
-Group life insurance
-Referral Bonus program
-Employee assistance program that allows for covered behavioral health visits
-Qualified employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
-Free Parking for most positions
-Free LinkedIn Learning access
 

Equal Employment Opportunity:

The State of Indiana is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to recruiting, selecting, developing, and promoting employees based on individual ability and job performance. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunity to all people in all aspects of employer-employee relations without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, or veteran status. We will comply with the spirit as well as the letter of all applicable state and federal laws. 

If you are a qualified individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodations to complete this application, you can request assistance by contacting the Indiana State Personnel Department at jobsspd.IN.gov.

The State of Indiana has established a culture that welcomes equity, inclusion, and opportunity for all employees and applicants. We encourage you if you feel you have the transferrable skills to be successful in this position and we look forward to reviewing your application.

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