Information Security Team Manager (Team Manager V) - Metropolitan Water District - Los Angeles, CA - EXPIRED
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Job Information:
Company: Metropolitan Water District
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a consortium of 26 cities and water districts that provides drinking water to nearly 19 million people in Southern California. Metropolitan's mission is to provide its service area with adequate and reliable supplies of high quality water to meet current and future needs in an environmentally and economically responsible way. Metropolitan's facilities include the 242-mile Colorado River Aqueduct, five water treatment plants with a combined capacity of 2.6 billion gallons per day, nine surface water reservoirs, 800 miles of pipeline, and 16 hydroelectric power plants.
Important Mission... Important work...
Our mission at The Metropolitan Water District is to supply the more than 300 cities and unincorporated areas in Southern California with reliable and safe water. Your mission as the Information Security Team Manager will be to keep our infrastructure and complex systems safe in Cyberspace. You will be working at our headquarters located in downtown, Los Angeles.
You will lead and empower a team of information security experts and implement the processes and technologies required to enable them. This role is responsible for managing and supervising the design, development, integration, implementation, and administration of information technology security systems and policies and processes. You will ensure security systems are available and functioning at optimal levels; establish standards and practices.
As we go through Cyberspace, you and your team will constantly be looking at our existing security processes and identifying any vulnerabilities; monitoring existing and new security threats, ensuring that critical patches and antiviral applications are current and deployed; investigating security breaches and threats and recommending changes to address security issues.
You will partner with the business units to help resolve technical challenges and participate in the planning and implementation of complex projects. You will be a technical advisor in the analysis, diagnosis, and resolution of applications and general information technology problems; and you will research and evaluate new technologies.
Knowing as you do, that the biggest threat to Cyber security are the users, you will manage a security awareness program.
JOB REQUIREMENTS: WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS MISSION?
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and eight years of increasingly responsible relevant experience, of which two years must have been in a project management, supervisory, or lead capacity;
OR
an advanced degree from an accredited college or university and six years of increasingly responsible relevant experience, of which two years must have been in a project management, supervisory, or lead capacity.
Relevant experience is defined as Information Security work experience.
Required Knowledge of: Principles and practices of maintaining secure computing environment; principles and practices of system design, development, and implementation; principles and practices of intrusion detection, firewall software, and antiviral software and practices of intrusion recovery
Supervisory methods and techniques; team building; contract administration; project management including planning, scheduling, and costing; report writing; personnel management practices; practices and principles of strategic planning; performance measurement tools and metrics; policies and procedures related to budget, procurement, and human resources; programming theory and design; and basic understanding of Microsoft and UNIX operating systems.
Required Skills and Abilities to: Plan and organize the work of the team; encourage and facilitate cooperation; interpret laws, rules, and regulations relative to the section and group; communicate orally and in writing; determine training needs of staff; establish collaborative working relationships with all levels within Metropolitan; develop information security policies, procedures, and standards; institute appropriate information security measures and practices to ensure Metropolitan's computing assets are safeguarded.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, AND REGISTRATIONS REQUIREMENTS
Valid California Class C Driver's License or equivalent from your state of residency that allows you to drive in the course of your employment
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
Certified Information Security Manager, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Systems Auditor, or other Information Security certifications or licenses related to the information security field.
May travel to various sites requiring overnight stay.
Benefits:
* Competitive compensation
* Excellent medical, dental, life, vision
* Retirement plans, including pension plan and 401k
* Tuition reimbursement
* Training and advancement opportunities
* Excellent working environment
* Public transportation reimbursements and van pools
* On-site fitness center
* Hub of public transportation: Rail, subway, buses and taxis
For more information on MWD benefits, please use the following link: http://www.mwdh2o.com/PDF_Careers/benefits.pdf
This job announcement has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. To receive a copy of the complete job description, please send an email to [email protected].
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Qualified individuals with disabilities, who need a reasonable accommodation during the application or selection process, please call (213) 217-7738 or email: [email protected].
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