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Lead Cybersecurity Specialist

2 months ago


Alexandria, Virginia, United States City of Alexandria (VA) Full time
Job Summary

The City of Alexandria (VA) is seeking a highly skilled Lead Cybersecurity Specialist to oversee the City's Cybersecurity Program.

About the Department

The Information Technology Services Department is responsible for enterprise technology operations for the City of Alexandria. ITS provides technology services and solutions to City departments to enhance service delivery.

  • Aligns ITS work with City needs by providing leadership, resources, expertise, and products that enable departments to better serve the City's residents, businesses, and visitors.
  • Supports initiatives funded through the multi-year Information Technology Capital Improvement Plan (IT/CIP) to improve the overall technology landscape.
  • Has been a Top Ten National Finalist in the Digital Cities Award program for over the past 19 years.
Key Responsibilities

The Lead Cybersecurity Specialist will be responsible for overseeing the City's Cybersecurity Program, including developing cybersecurity plans and strategies, preventing and mitigating cyber-attacks, and ensuring compliance with City, industry, and government regulations.

  • Develop, maintain, and mature risk and compliance reporting and alerting as well as SOC (security operations center) best practices and standard operating procedure documentation.
  • Improve threat awareness through continuous development and improvement of processes including network vulnerability scanning, security information event management (SIEM) system, Threat detection and response, IT governance risk and control management and assessment, IPS/IDS systems, and other applications.
  • Work service tickets within defined response time to completion.
  • Help design, build, process prove and support workflows to the success of defined business goals.
  • Participate as a respectful, thoughtful, listening and contributing member of committees and projects and working groups.
  • Provides operational oversight, including project management, for all threat and vulnerability management functions.
  • Supports the CISO and fellow ITS Security team members in responsibilities including project performance, incident response management, and other functions as needed.
  • Ensuring compliance to City, industry and government regulations, policies, standards and procedures.
  • Responding to internal and external audits.
  • Work as an ITS Security team member with various cross-functional and technical teams to ensure effectiveness in measuring and managing risk appropriate for the City of Alexandria risk tolerance.
  • Provide clear and timely analysis and reporting.
  • Participate in the planning and design of an enterprise business continuity plan and disaster recovery plan, under the direction of the CISO, where appropriate.
  • Maintain up-to-date detailed knowledge of the cybersecurity industry including awareness of new or revised security solutions, improved security processes, and the development of new attacks and threat vectors.
  • Recommend additional security solutions or enhancements to existing security solutions to improve overall enterprise security.
  • Assist in the review, selection, deployment, integration, and initial configuration of all new security solutions and of any enhancements to existing security solutions in accordance with standard best operating procedures generically and the enterprise's security documents specifically.
  • Maintain up-to-date baselines for the secure configuration and operations of all in-place devices, whether they be under direct control (i.e. security tools) or not (e.g. workstations, servers, network devices).
  • Review logs and reports of all in-place devices, whether they be under direct control (i.e. security tools) or not (e.g. workstations, servers, network devices). Interpret the implications of that activity and devise plans for appropriate resolution.
  • Participate in the design and execution of vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and security audits.
  • Participates in incident response work.
  • Performing other duties as assigned.
Requirements
  • Four-Year College Degree with completion of college courses in computer science or related field.
  • Five years of experience as a Computer Programmer Analyst III or Network Engineer II including one year as an Information Security Analyst or Engineer.
  • Three years of experience in project and contract management.
  • Any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Recent technical experience within the past five years demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge of information security and risk management and technology.
  • Recent technical experience within the past five years demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge of security administration in a Windows-based network environment.
  • Recent experience within the past five years demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge of information protection standards, guidelines, and applied procedures.
  • Technical experience within the past 10 years demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge of server administration as applied to network and internet security.
  • Good working knowledge of industry standard security controls, NIST 800-53, SANS 20 controls, CIS 18 Critical Controls, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27002 Standard, and PCI-DSS.
  • Experience within the past 10 years demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge of business needs coupled with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence in the security team's concern for customers.
Notes

This position requires the successful completion of pre-employment checks including but not limited to a criminal background and drug screening.

This position may be occasionally required to be available after normal working hours to support applications and to respond to the City's Emergency Operations Center (EOC) when it is activated.