Cybersecurity Engineer

7 hours ago

Amarillo, Texas, United States City of Amarillo, Texas Full time
Job Summary

This position is a technical security professional responsible for planning and creating IT security policies, implementing protective measures, and providing vulnerability testing, monitoring, reporting, investigations, and postmortem analysis.

Key Responsibilities
  • Remains current on industry security standards and best practices, cybersecurity topics, and compliance as it relates to CJIS, HIPAA, PCI, and transportation cybersecurity.
  • Maintains security equipment and identifies, authors, and implements user, network, and system security policies.
  • Proactively maintains tools for monitoring, support, and reporting.
  • Works closely with city departments to identify risks, threats, and security vulnerabilities, provide guidance, and track remediation efforts.
  • Performs security, vulnerability, and risk assessments of critical systems, infrastructure, applications, and third-party partners.
  • Provides recommendations and action plans based on vulnerability and gap assessments.
  • Assists with managing the IT Governance policies and processes.
  • Participates in project planning and management across multiple efforts.
  • Evaluates, develops, and recommends security products and platforms to provide cost-effective solutions.
  • Manages formal security training courses and creates campaigns to help educate users and reduce risk.
  • Incident response experience, particularly leading incident investigations.
  • Manages and directs various IT vendor and contractor-related tasks.
  • Makes recommendations that impact the department budget.
  • Assists in the competitive procurement processes, writes bid specifications, assists in the evaluation of proposals, and makes recommendations for bid awards as needed.
Requirements
  • Requires a bachelor's degree in information technology or a related field, or a minimum of three years of security experience, or an equivalent combination of education/experience implementing and maintaining information security systems and analysis, security programs, and projects.
  • Solid work experience in the administration and performance of security systems and tools and a solid knowledge of infrastructure, systems, and application operations.
  • Due to the level of access to potentially sensitive information, successful completion of a criminal background check is required.
  • Background check must confirm eligibility for Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) system access and CJIS eligibility must be maintained for the duration of employment.
  • Must be able to participate in an after-hours on-call rotation and work extended hours when necessary.
  • A valid Texas Driver's License is required.
Preferred Certifications
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Ethical Hacker, Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), CompTIA Network Security+, CompTIA Security+.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Ability to investigate attacks to find root causes.
  • Experience with handling complex network architectures.
  • Ability to run Pentest on computer hardware or network systems.
  • A deep understanding of enterprise operating systems.
  • Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts and methodologies.
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • Understanding of next-gen firewalls, routers, switches.
  • Knowledge of EDR, XDR, MDR, and SIEM.
  • Ability to read and understand system and network logs.
  • Knowledge of programming languages.
  • Social Engineering skills.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Work Environment

The employee works in an environment that requires them to regularly make decisions that could lead to major community or organizational consequences if they fail to make the appropriate decision at the time.

The City of Amarillo is an Equal Opportunity employer and encourages applications from eligible and qualified persons regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability, genetic information, or protected veteran status, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local law.

The City of Amarillo provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis.

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