Cyber Security Engineer II

Job Description

Salt Lake County…A career with a purpose in the community you love!

Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community, please keep reading.

What it is like to work here:

At Salt Lake County our culture is woven into all aspects of our work and our employees’ lives, from the way we treat each other to the way we support the community. To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment, we appreciate employees through great benefits, a healthy work life balance and room to grow and develop.

Surround yourself with:

Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live work and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community. Community is more than a place…its our heart and service that bring us together.

We encourage a work life balance:

Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck. A career with /Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks. We support our employees with 12 Holidays, up to 24 vacation days, 12 sick days and one personal day every year. We work in a hybrid environment giving you flexibility to manage working from home and being in office.

Additional Benefits include:

• Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution

Medical coverage including a 100% county paid premium option-Dental and Vision coverage including coverage for adult designees

• Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year, Flexible Spending Account
• 100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option
• Professional Development
• Plus:
  Onsite medical clinic, childcare and gym; hospital insurance, pet insurance auto and home insurance and discounts at County facilities.

JOB SUMMARY

Works under the direction of the Cyber Security Manager to provide the design, development, implementation, monitoring, and maintenance Salt Lake County’s enterprise-wide cyber security programs which are designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all County systems and resources, including but not limited to voice, data, network, applications, and computer infrastructure, and their associated information assets.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology or closely related field, plus four (4) years of related experience; OR an equivalent combination of eight (8) years of related education and experience.

Professional certifications related to information security or computer networking are preferred.

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant must pass a required pre-employment background check and subsequent mandatory background checks in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Complies with and promotes all IT security policies, processes, procedures, and best practices.
• Act in an advisory role to other teams both internal to IT and throughout the county.
• Deploys and integrates IT security and privacy-related programs designed to protect the County’s systems, applications, and data.
• Identifies and communicates security issues and their impact on the IT organization and the County and assists with executing successful solutions while tracking and achieving measurable results.
• Establishes and maintains positive business relationships with users countywide to actively market and educate them on the importance of security cooperation and compliance.
• Deploys, as instructed, the Information Security plans and short-term and long-term strategies for the IT organization and the County.
• Documents processes and monitors systems that report on the effectiveness of systems and controls necessary to protect the County’s information technology systems, assets, and interests.
• Monitors compliance with the organization's information security policies and…