Cybersecurity Engineer II

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Conducts vulnerability scanning and penetration testing
• Investigates services and application security. Performs security comparative review, security risk assessment, and security validation
• Performs operational duties during security incident responses, troubleshoots and performs root cause analysis for security solutions
• Analyzes, designs, and installs complex enterprise security solutions and frameworks
• Designs security solutions architecture, selects tools and partners, and configures and manages capacity, changes, documentation, and reporting
• Contributes to the documentation of security processes and procedures
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Knowledge of security architecture principles and best practices for system and network protection
• Knowledge of advanced cybersecurity tools, such as firewalls and intrusion prevention systems
• Skill in deploying and configuring cybersecurity tools and technologies to mitigate risks
• Skill in designing and implementing security measures to protect IT infrastructure and sensitive data
• Ability to lead complex technical projects
• Ability to analyze complex security threats and develop proactive solutions to prevent breaches
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve advanced security incidents with minimal supervision
  
  

Minimum Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 2 years of experience
• Equivalent combination of experience & education may be considered
  
  

Job Level Overview

Specialized Contributor Level 2 - A fully functional role requiring established knowledge of the profession or field of work. Responsible for completing substantive assignments and projects. Problems are varied and non-routine, and resolution requires exercising judgment, analysis, advisement, creativity, and understanding broader sets of issues. May provide assistance to entry level staff.

Additional Details:

The Cybersecurity Engineer II is responsible for planning and implementing various technologies to support academic and research activities for the college. This position will need to work effectively as a member of a medium-sized team that is responsible for the technology operations of the college. The individual will be the primary liaison to RIT's Information Security Office.

The Cybersecurity Engineer II will be responsible for implementing and maintaining the college's systems, teaching labs, and network. The position requires the ability to research technologies, troubleshoot systems, and networks for software, hardware, and security-related issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Investigates the security of services and applications, utilizing expertise in communications and network security, identity and access management, client-side, server-side, databases, and application development.
• Performs the analysis, evaluation, design, testing, configuration, installation, implementation, administration, monitoring, reporting, maintenance, and support of complicated enterprise security solutions and frameworks.
• Leads operational aspects of security incident response, troubleshooting, support, and root cause analysis.
• Collaborates to develop strategic technical security direction for the college.
• Supports the college's academic mission through client administration, server and data storage administration, and network administration.
• Supports the college's research mission by advising faculty researchers on equipment purchases, research project technology needs and support, and RIT policy compliance.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• RIT experience strongly preferred
• 3 years minimum experience working with medium-large IT environments
• Communications - ability to effectively communicate information about highly technical solutions, situations, and terminology in a way that will be easily understood by customers, team members, management, and nontechnical people
• Customer Focus - ability to establish and maintain productive relationships with customers
• Flexibility/adaptability - ability and willingness to change direction/priority and focus to meet changing organizational and business needs.
• Continuous improvement - Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to improve the quality of service to internal customers
• Technical expertise to carry out the major responsibilities listed above
• Ability to work closely with a team or independently to deliver expected results
• Tactical ability - identify and lead strategic objectives and drive results through effective actions
  
  

FLSA Category

Exempt

Work Location

Hybrid

Compensation

$72,500 to $116,000

Application Materials

When you are ready to complete an application for this position please be prepared to submit the below requested information. This will be required to ensure your application is processed in a timely manner.

Cover Letter, Curriculum Vitae or Resume

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.

Additional Details

In compliance with NYS's Pay Transparency Act, the salary range for this position is listed above. Rochester Institute of Technology considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. The hiring process for this position may require a criminal background check and/or motor vehicle records check. Any verbal or written offer made is contingent on satisfactory results, as determined by Human Resources. RIT provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, age, marital status, sex, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, veteran status or disability in its hiring, admissions, educational programs and activities. RIT provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities under the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the New York Human Rights Law, or similar applicable law.

If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please contact the Human Resources office at 585-475-2424 or email your request to hr@rit.edu. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

To apply, visit https://rit.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers/job/Rochester-NY/Cybersecurity-Engineer-II_JR101607

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