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Infojini

Manager - Cybersecurity Operations

Infojini, St Louis, Missouri, United States,


Job Description-

Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of cybersecurity professionals, providing guidance and support to achieve operational excellence. The Bi-State Development (BSD) cybersecurity team consists of two full-time security analysts and part time assistance from other key infrastructure team members.

Team Management: Provide support to the team including: task assignment, prioritization, goal setting, performance monitoring, appraisals, and staffing recommendations for raises, promotion, training, and disciplinary actions. Work with individuals to promote growth through appropriate assignments, feedback, self-study, and training.

Incident Response: With the team, maintain an incident response plan, ensuring the team is ready to respond to and mitigate security incidents promptly and effectively. Lead incident response events as necessary.

Threat Monitoring: With the team, implement and manage advanced threat detection systems, ensuring real-time monitoring of network traffic and security events.

Vulnerability Management: Promote and ensure regular vulnerability assessments, prioritize remediation efforts, and work with other teams to ensure timely patching and mitigation.

Security Policies and Procedures: With the team, develop, document, and enforce security policies, procedures, and best practices to protect digital assets and sensitive data.

Security Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations, such as GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS.

Security Technologies: Evaluate, recommend, and implement security technologies and tools to enhance the organization's security posture.

Budget Management: Work with leadership to define and manage the budget for the cybersecurity team and toolsets ensuring efficient resource allocation.

Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, within Bi-State Development, to align security efforts with the overall business, legal, cyber, and continuity objectives.

Reporting: Provide regular reports to senior management on the state of cybersecurity, incident trends, future directions, and risk assessments.

Projects: Work with the Director of IT Infrastructure on special projects and focus items.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities-

• Professional certifications such as: CISM, CISSP, CISA, CIPP, CEH. At least one is required.• Additional professional certifications such as: CIST, PMP, SSCP are a plus.• Minimum of five (5) years cybersecurity related experience and a total of ten (10) or more years' experience in IT/ Infrastructure area is required.• Some experience managing project or functional teams is required.• Knowledge of NIST Cyber Security Framework.• In-depth knowledge of cybersecurity technologies, threat landscape, and best practices.• Strong communication and leadership skills.• Experience with compliance standards and regulations, assessment tools, and methodologies.• Experience with enterprise-wide security programs and strategies.• Proficiency in security toolsets, assessment tools, and assessment methodologies.• Ability to solve problems and provide solutions that are technically, financially, and administratively responsible.• Familiarity with penetration testing, firewall capabilities, Cisco, Microsoft, and Linux technologies.• Experience writing recovery plans, updating policies/procedures and documenting security breaches.• Ability to communicate regarding cybersecurity topics to internal stakeholders and external partners.• Experience coordinating and recovering from cyber incidents in a similar or more complex environment.

• Technical Expertise: Cisco Firepower, Cisco SecureX, Cisco Secure Endpoint, Cisco StealthWatch, Cisco ISE, Splunk, RedHat Linux, Microsoft Windows Server, VMware, Citrix, Oracle

Experience-

Minimum of five (5) years cybersecurity-related experience and a total of 10 or more years' experience in IT/ Infrastructure area.

Information Technology or related field.