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Chief IT Security Officer Jobs in Mecklenburg County, NC at Mecklenburg County
Title: Chief IT Security Officer
Company: Mecklenburg County
Location: Mecklenburg County, NC
Salary Range: $172,173 – $225,975This is an exempt (salaried) position. Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity.
Follow Your Calling, Find Your CareerThe success of Mecklenburg County rests on strong, competent talent at all levels of the organization. We are a growing team of talented and passionate IT professionals who are dedicated to delivering creative tools and innovative solutions to engage and serve more than 1 million County residents as well as 6,000 employees. Our mission is to serve the residents of Mecklenburg County by providing business-valued IT solutions and services that are flexible, engaging, and innovative. Whether your passion is architecture, development, quality services, engineering, desktop support, or operations, we have a position for you. If you enjoy working with the public and are looking for a career where your work is important to the community, come be a part of Mecklenburg County and help us provide a community of pride and choice for people to live, learn, work, and recreate.
Position SummaryManage the development and delivery of IT security standards, best practices, architecture and systems to ensure information system security across the County. This position is responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy, and program to ensure information assets and technologies are adequately protected.
The Chief Information Security Officer serves as the process owner of all assurance activities related to the availability, integrity and confidentiality of customer, business partner, employee and business information in compliance with the organization’s information security policies. A key element of the CISO’s role is working with executive management to determine acceptable levels of risk for the organization. This position is responsible for establishing and maintaining a corporate-wide information security management program to ensure that information assets are adequately protected.
Essential Functions
Develop, implement and monitor a strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security and IT risk management program
Work directly with the business units to facilitate risk assessment and risk management processes
Develop and enhance an information security management framework
Understand and interact with related disciplines through committees to ensure the consistent application of policies and standards across all technology projects, systems and services
Provide leadership to the enterprise’s information security organization
Partner with business stakeholders across the company to raise awareness of risk management concerns
Assist with the overall business technology planning, providing a current knowledge and future vision of technology and systems
Ensure the security of the organization’s intellectual property and computer systems
Develop security policies and strategies outlining methods for protecting information assets and reducing risk
Investigate security breaches, assess areas of vulnerability, and create corrective action plans to address issues
Make recommendations and assist in the implementation of changes to work methods and procedures to strengthen security measures
Facilitate migration of non-compliant environment to compliant environments
Manage and participate in the planning and implementation of security administration and projects
Responsible for the evaluation and selection …
