Director of IT Infrastructure Security
FUTURALIS, United States
Job Description
He is fine with someone who has a BS degree or relevant experience. They should have at least 1 certification that he has listed. They will be Directly managing a team of 10 for now and that will grow. They need past management experience. They are using Azure and AWS now. His preference is someone who has both Azure and AWS, but he will look at someone that has one or the other. They will work closely with the web group. They will also Lead the Network Group, Cloud, and Security. They will be securing environments and architecting them.
The preference is to have someone local, but he will consider out of state candidates that need to work 100% remote. They will also be flexible on the vacation package, so please include what the candidate wants in the submission.
The Director of IT Infrastructure will provide technical expertise and leadership to a group of IT professionals in maintaining, configuring, and securing the overall network infrastructure and cloud environments. He or she will be responsible for the overall operations and support of the network infrastructure, server/endpoints, wide area networks, data centers, and cloud services. This is a critical role with technical operations responsibility and accountability to deliver high network availability, security and performance to all of the company’s internal and external customers. Responsibilities also include the ongoing management and assurance of IT security, the development of security plans to ensure internal and external regulatory compliance, minimize risk, and reduce the risk of undue IT security threats and vulnerabilities. This person will work closely with other IT executives to fulfill the goal of advancing IT as a core competency.
Requirements
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business or related field.
- Current information security certification such as a GIAC, CISSP, CCSP, or similar preferred.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- 10 + years' experience in IT and IS that includes: managing information security, maintaining information security operations, developing policies, procedures and guidelines in a complex environment
- 10+ years’ experience in network infrastructure solutions architecture and cloud-based network infrastructure (Azure amp; AWS)
- Experience in building and maintaining a multilocation highly available complex network
- Extensive hands on experience in configuring, utilizing and interpreting industry leading network, application, web, database and host vulnerability technologies and serving as the technical security subject matter expert for remediation
- Experience in the development, implementation and operation of IT Security Strategy within a complex multi supplier, multi-platform environment using security best practices
- Experience in defining and implementing security life cycle testing to conduct various security testing across network/data/application/infrastructure.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for the supervision of network engineers, network admins, vendors, auditors, and other persons tasked with maintaining information security, internal controls, and overall IT infrastructure
- Manage and support a complex integrated network of 70+ locations across the U.S.
- Responsible for maintaining high availability and ongoing improvements of 4 data centers and cloud services
- Work closely with other executives to execute strategic initiatives that follow the company’s long- range plan.
- Lead the continuous and secure operation, administration and maintenance of the corporate computing and networking infrastructure, including development of Risk Management, Identity/Access Management, Information Security and Privacy, and Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans
- Support adoption of new technologies and tools, as well as recommend proven solutions and improvements to network and security operations.
- Work closely with other departments to ensure network operations are capable of handling emerging and future business requirements.
- Coordinate security related activity related to specific strategic initiatives in support of long-range goals of the enterprise or a specific business unit; serves as resource to senior management for planning and implementation of strategic initiatives
- Oversee the development and implementation of security-oriented policies, procedures, and operating practices -as well as implementation of hardening procedures for the organizations systems, network and mobile device environments.
- Define and manage continuous improvement through remediation action plans for penetration test and maturity assessment findings
- Identify risk factors and contingency plans a