Cybersecurity Engineer

Cybersecurity Engineer

Madison City Schools (AL) Technology - Madison, Alabama

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• Job : 5257907
• Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled
• Posted: Jun 26, 2025 5:00 AM (UTC)
• Starting Date: To Be Determined

Job Goal: To provide high-level technical support and leadership in the planning, implementation, and maintaining of the district's network and systems security operations.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in computer science/information systems or a closely related field
• A minimum of 2 years of experience related to IT Security Administration
• At a minimum of 10 years of strong technical experience directly related to computer hardware and software systems.

FSLA Status: Exempt

Reports To: Technology Director or designee

Background Check

Required:

(Ala. Code §§ 16-22A-5) Upon offer of employment, employees will be required to submit legible fingerprints for a background review by the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Background checks may not be more than ten (10) years old.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience designing secure networks, systems, and application architectures
• Knowledge of Disaster Recovery, computer forensic tools, technology, and methods
• Experience planning, researching, and developing security policies, standards, and procedures
• Expertise in anti-virus software, intrusion detection, firewalls, and content filtering
• Knowledge of risk assessment tools, technologies, and methods
• Expertise in designing secure networks, systems, and application architectures
• Experience in system administration, supporting multiple platforms and applications
• Expertise with malicious code and anti-virus software identification
• Experience with Endpoint security solutions, including file integrity monitoring and data loss prevention
• Experience with AWS and cloud platform as a service (PaaS) security
• Experience with automating security testing tools
• Ability to communicate network security issues to the director and superintendent.
• Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills
• Physical mobility to exert up to 20 pounds occasionally and up to 10 pounds frequently

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Safeguards information system assets by identifying and solving potential and actual security problems.
• Create efficiency and standardization in district technology procedures to ensure stable and secure device operation for students and staff.
• Analyzes, assesses, and mitigates vulnerabilities in systems and servers to ensure optimal performance and continuous availability of services to authorized users in support of digital learning and student instruction.
• Assists in the development of and carries out information security plans and policies.
• Develops strategies to respond to and recover from a security breach.
• Develops or implements open-source/third-party tools to assist in the detection, prevention, and analysis of security threats.
• Communicates effectively with assigned staff to provide direction, feedback, and expertise regarding the mitigation of security vulnerabilities and assists as needed in the resolution of emergencies.
• Maintains Incident Response Plan, Business Continuity Plan, and Risk Management Program and communicates duties and procedures to appropriate stakeholders and staff members.
• Review findings with the security team to determine acceptable levels of risk. Monitors networks and systems for security breaches, through the use of software that detects intrusions and anomalous system behavior.
• Investigate security breaches.
• Facilitates high-quality professional development for district staff on cyber security awareness; prepares, arranges, and conducts a wide variety of training activities and works with staff members in groups or individually to provide guidance, demonstrate best practices, and refine knowledge and skills.
• Establishes standardized guidelines and solutions for the security of personal computer network services, including but not limited to remote access, file, print, application, network, and active directory services.
• Monitors the…