Cybersecurity Operations Supervisor

Racine, County of (WI); Elmwood Park (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Racine County is seeking a Cybersecurity Operations Supervisor to strengthen its cybersecurity infrastructure and operational effectiveness through preparedness, threat prediction, detection, incident response and governance. You will lead a team of IT professionals and ensure best practices across security policies and procedures.

The role requires ongoing risk-based management, collaboration with leadership, and development of monitoring and response capabilities to protect county information

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/IT preferred; combination with military or cybersecurity experience considered.
• Minimum 3 years cybersecurity experience required.
• At least 2 years hands-on experience with penetration testing methodologies and tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of IT professionals.
• Prioritize tasks and projects to meet deadlines and allocate resources effectively.
• Protect Racine County information, assets, and operations from disruption or disclosure.
• Design and build secure IT systems per reference architectures and standards.
• Review cybersecurity information to determine usefulness for intelligence.
• Collect/analyze information from endpoints and networks to identify vulnerabilities.
• Assess threats and develop mitigation countermeasures.
• Develop/modify cybersecurity policies and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Keep leadership informed and disseminate cyber threat assessments.
• Plan and execute incident response and postmortem exercises.
• Develop and maintain Incident response plan.
• IDS monitoring and log analysis to distinguish intrusions from false alarms.
• Monitor security events 24x7.
• Assist in security awareness materials and trainings.

Skills

Analytical skills

Creative problem solving

Customer focus

Team leadership

Decision making

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/IT

Tools

Penetration testing

Job description

The Cybersecurity Operations Supervisor supports the County’s overall cybersecurity infrastructure and operational effectiveness through cybersecurity preparedness, threat prediction and detection, incident response and recovery, effective cybersecurity governance, policies, processes, and guidance throughout the local government

Responsibilities

1. Manage, lead, and develop a team of technical IT professionals
2. Manage and prioritize tasks and projects to ensure deadlines are met and resources are allocated effectively.
3. Protect Racine County information, intellectual assets, and business operations from accidental or intentional disruption, disclosure, or destruction.
4. Conceptualize, design, and/or build secure information technology (IT) systems, with responsibility for system and/or network development per reference architectures, configuration standards, compliance requirements and cybersecurity best practices as it relates to external and internal security.
5. Performhighly specialized review and evaluation of incoming cybersecurity information to determine its usefulness for intelligence.
6. Managethe collection and analysis of information from various applications, endpoints, and network sources to identify vulnerabilities and potential for exploitation while taking a risk-based approach when determining what gaps to address.
7. Conduct assessments of threats and vulnerabilities and developand/or recommend appropriate mitigation countermeasures.
8. Involved in developing, modifying, and executing company policies and procedures that affect cybersecurity operations and ensure compliance with applicable standards and regulations.
9. Keep leadership updated tomaintain awareness of the cybersecurity operating environment. Collect, process, analyze, and disseminate cyber threat/warning assessments to County personnel.
10. Develop/plan and execute regular incident response and postmortem exercises, with a focus on creating measurable benchmarks to show progress (or deficiencies requiring additional attention).
11. Development and maintenance of Incidence response plan.
12. IDS monitoring and analysis, analyze network traffic, log analysis, prioritize and differentiate between potential intrusion attempts, and false alarms.
13. Monitor and process responses for security events on a 24x7 basis.
14. Assistin developing security awareness materials, security presentations, and information security training sessions.
15. Other duties as required
    

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, information technology, computer information systems, MIS, or engineering is preferred. A combination of associate degree, military, or professional cybersecurity experience and cybersecurity certification (CISSP, GIAC,MCSE, CEH, GICSP, CSSA, CISM) will be considered
• Minimum 3 years Cybersecurity experience required
• At least 2 years hands-on experience with penetration testing methodologies and tools is preferred

Additional Requirements

• Candidate must have good analytical and creative problem-solving skills
• Must be customer focused and demonstrate initiative
• Keepup to date with current software and hardware network security threat
• Understanding of the RMF and NIST CSF (800-53)