Number of Vacancies
1
Location
Edinburg, Texas
Department
Infrastructure & Operations
FTE
1.0
FLSA
Exempt
Scope of Job
Responsible for the monitoring, development, implementation, configuration, ongoing maintenance, integrity and security of the University IT network security function that follow network security strategies, methodologies, and practices for the entire university.
Description of Duties
- Responsible for operating and monitoring security systems on multiple University campuses to identify information security incidents and compromises and provide immediate and real time security network intelligence and responses. Makes recommendations for remediation and incident resolution.
- Performs complex to advanced network security analysis work.
- Coordinates response and recovery of abuse of systems and information resources, violation of policies, privacy issues, and related incidents.
- Maintains firewalls by making changes as needed and by implementing various blocking and monitoring mechanisms while evaluating and assessing organizational risk.
- Configures and maintains firewalls for departments and colleges.
- Performs key software, hardware and configuration upgrades, and by making changes as needed.
- Configures and maintains encrypted virtual private networks for departments and colleges including: site-to-site, SSL, and remote access (client) VPNs.
- Manages security related projects and executes project tasks.
- Addresses vulnerability findings and implements appropriate corrective action.
- Employs network forensic tools and packet analysis techniques to analyze unusual network traffic patterns for security breaches or network utilization issues.
- Employs forensic tools and techniques to recover and seize deleted, fragmented and corrupted data from digital media of all types.
- Secures and maintains custody of logs and other evidence for evaluation and analysis and provide them to appropriate personnel.
- Preserves and collects electronically stored information based on approved requests while properly documenting change of custody.
- Prepares reports and presentations on security related matters and tailors content based on the audience and level of expertise.
- Researches, recommends, installs and maintains tools to aid in disaster recovery, business continuity, intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, incident remediation, monitoring of network and bandwidth resources, and other pertinent security software and utilities.
- Provides risk assessment assistance, technical support, and administrative support for technical implementations and systems throughout the university while providing recommendations and identifying areas of improvement.
- Prepares and issues security notices when necessary.