If you consider yourself a Cyber Security Expert and are looking to grow your career in Information Technology then LAUSD may have the job for you!
Come be a part of 600+ staff member division who are professional, forward thinking and create an environment that challenges you to reach your potential. LAUSD’s Information Technology Division (ITD) supports a range of technologies from personal systems to enterprise-wide systems and applications.
Highlights of the role include:
· Up 15 vacation days a year plus a generous sick time policy
· Fully-paid medical/dental/vision premiums for employee and dependents
· 12 paid holidays – yes that is in addition to the 15 vacation days!
· Pension plan through membership in the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS)
· Competitive pay
· Plus, many more unique benefits!
A Snapshot about the Role
For the IT Security Unit in LAUSD's Information Technology Division, a Cyber Security Engineer II analyzes, installs, operates, and maintains a variety of cyber security controls and tools and performs cyber security operational tasks such as managing security incidents, functional reviews, validating findings, and recommending remediation processes.
Some of the duties you will perform will consist of:
· Analyzing, monitoring, and correlating security event information from logs, endpoints, networks, and cloud environments, across multiple systems, applications, and users to detect and mitigate external and internal threats.
· Regularly monitoring network security devices and systems to identify false positives and performing tuning to collect the right cyber security-related events
· Monitoring, installing, and upgrading security devices and controls that manage the flow of information between networks of different trust levels in order to prevent attackers from exploiting District information assets.
· Monitoring, troubleshooting and maintaining messaging systems to identify malicious email attacks and correlate email telemetry with wider security events, behavior analytics, and other threat information to determine if a cyber-attack has occurred, is occurring, or will occur
Qualifications
Education:
Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field. Qualifying experience in addition to that required may be substituted on a year-for-year basis provided that the requirement of a high school diploma or equivalent is met.
Experience:
Four years of recent experience in the engineering, installation, configuration, and maintenance of security devices for a large organization; such as next-generation firewalls, Virtual Private Networks, intrusion detection/prevention systems, multi-factor authentication, next-generation endpoint security, and Security Information Event Management systems.
Special Requirements:
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Security, Cisco Certified CyberOps Professional OR Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA) OR Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) or equivalent is required and must be kept valid during the term of employment
Any Global Information Assurance Certification GIAC certification is preferred
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation level certification is preferable
Desirable Qualifications
- Current firewall, VPN, content filtering, and intrusion detection methodologies
- TCP/IP protocols including IP addressing, subnetting and well known ports
- Knowledge of security tools such as IDS/IPS, SIEM, DLP
- Knowledge of vulnerability assessment tools including but not limited to Nessus, Nmap and Metasploit - Risk and threat assessment processes and practices
- Malware such as worms, viruses and Trojans
- Proof of Concepts procedures and processes
- Project management techniques
The ideal candidate would also have the ability to:
- Install, configure and monitor network security devices, including firewalls, VPN, content filtering, and Intrusion Detection Systems
- Design and implement technical modifications to firewall, VPN, content filtering, and intrusion detection rule sets
- Learn characteristics of new security threats, vulnerabilities, and countermeasure techniques and technology
- Effectively communicate technical information to all levels of staff
- Maintain effective working relationships
- Identify and analyze trends related to threats
- Conduct WireShark captures
- Train and mentor staff effectively
- Maintain up-to-date detailed knowledge of the IT Security industry including awareness of new or revised security solutions, improved security processes, and the deployment of new attacks and threat vectors
Additional Job info can be found at www.lausdjobs.org