Cybersecurity Engineer
- Employer
- City Of Alexandria Virginia
- Location
- Alexandria, VA
- Salary
- $72,528.30 - $119,218.09 Annually
- Closing date
- Sep 17, 2020
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- Industry
- Government and Public Services
- Function
- IT
- Hours
- Full Time
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
Job Details
The Overview
The City of Alexandria's Department of Information Technology Services (ITS) is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to help support the information security team in their efforts to protect, detect, and respond to cyber-attacks. As the Cybersecurity Engineer, you will be part of the City's Information Security team. The Information Security Engineer will be responsible for providing engineering design, analysis, and support for routers, firewalls, networks, and operating systems.
The Opportunity
The Cybersecurity Engineer will provide a variety of services to the City in support of the Information Security Program such as:
- Researching, designing, and implementing information security solutions for organization systems and products that comply with all applicable security policies and standards
- Analyzing and recommending improvements to network, system, and application architectures
- Examining network, server, and application logs to determine trends and identify security incidents
- Assisting in the review and update of information security policies, architectures, and standards
- Assisting in responding to audits, penetration tests and vulnerability assessments
- Staying abreast of current and emerging security threats and engineering solutions to reduce their impact, including utilizing threat intelligence, and working with other states, local, and federal partners
- Administrating our identity and access management (IAM) solution, including single sign-on integrations
- Working with our public key infrastructure team to provide secure authentication
- Assist in creating security tool integrations
- Engineering solutions that protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of city services
- Working on tools to protect elections infrastructure
- Working with our server team to provide guidance around secure GPO configurations
- Working with the information security team and server team to create security baseline configurations
- Assisting the eGov team in infrastructure monitoring
- Automating our security response
- Teamwork and communication
- Technical expertise in network security knowledge, to include VPN, Firewall, network monitoring, intrusion detection, web server security, and wireless security
- Strong knowledge of common vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques
- Deep understanding of both Linux and Windows
- Practical experience with database security, content filtering, vulnerability scanning, and anti-malware
- Proficiency with at least one scripting language (e.g.: Perl, Python, PowerShell)
- An understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt, and efficient service to the business
- An understanding of organizational mission, values, and goals and consistent application of this knowledge
- Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one
About the Department
The Information Technology Services (ITS) 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 and 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. All resources support initiatives funded through the multi-year Information Technology Capital Improvement Plan (IT/CIP) to improve the overall technology landscape. The City of Alexandria's ITS Department has been a Top Ten National Finalist in the Digital Cities Award program for the past 15 consecutive years.
Minimum Requirements
Four Year College Degree; Five years as a Computer Programmer Analyst III; Three years’ experience in communicating and negotiating with high-level executives.
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred candidates will have all the above as well as the following:
- Four Year College degree in computer science, mathematics, or related subjects
- Strong technical background in both Linux and Windows
- Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation Experience
- Networking experience, especially with firewalls
- Experience engineering Security Information Event Management (SIEM - Splunk)
- Some security Certifications (CEH, Security+, CISSP);
- Experience in the public sector
Company
The City of Alexandria is an award-winning, innovative, and progressive local government that brings together elected leaders, residents, businesses, and staff to foster a thriving community. We are an independent, full-service city, providing the services typically operated by both counties and cities in areas such as public safety, transportation, human services, parks and recreation, planning, and administration. We offer a wide range of exciting career opportunities in a variety of fields, with the resources and expertise to succeed. In Alexandria, employees are our most important asset, and we work hard to create and support a culture that delivers excellence through the shared values of respect, integrity, teamwork and continuous improvement.
Our employees have access to excellent medical, dental, vision, life insurance and other benefits. Alexandria provides a defined-benefit pension and offers six weeks of paid parental leave to employees who become parents through birth, adoption or foster care.
We offer a robust wellness program, interdepartmental rotation program, tuition assistance funding and professional development program that helps employees obtain the knowledge, skills, qualifications and experience to enhance their professional and personal growth.
With a population of approximately 160,000 and a land area of 16 square miles, Alexandria is the seventh largest city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Located on the Potomac River across from Washington, D.C., Alexandria is known for its beautifully preserved 18th- and 19th-century architecture, charming waterfront, high-tech economy, vibrant retail and restaurant corridors and diverse neighborhoods. We are a unique and historic community, and we continue to innovate for the 21st century.
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