Associate Chief Information Security Officer

Exempt

Immediately

Salary commensurate with experience

40 hours weekly

Information Security Office

A resume and letter of interest is required to apply. Candidates under final consideration will also be required to submit professional references, college degree information, and employment history to an online third-party vendor.

For more than 140 years, The University of Texas System has improved the lives of Texans - and people all over the world - through education, health care, and research. The System consists of nine academic institutions, five health institutions, and The University of Texas System Administration. The institutions of the UT System employ more than 116,000 faculty, health care professionals, researchers, support staff, and student workers.

The UT System Administration is primarily based in Austin, Texas. It supports the missions of the System's fourteen institutions by providing financial, legal, planning, purchasing, government relations, communications, development, and other central services. Serving a growing state, the UT System Administration strives to provide a welcoming, supportive work environment that embraces different perspectives - not only because it enables the organization to be stronger, creative, and thoughtful, but because it is the right thing to do. To that end, UT System Administration embraces state laws on military and former foster children employment preferences.

To establish and administer UT System Administrations IT security program.

• Oversees the IT security program by approving and prioritizing security projects, establishing standards, and approving security tools and strategies.
• Supervises and directs IT security staff, delegates security administration and remediation tasks to IT security, help desk and network personnel as needed.
• Develops security awareness programs, security bulletins, security policies, guidelines and procedures, meets with department heads and IT staff as required to implement and monitor.
• Advises and reports on security to senior management, state agencies, compliance, and audit as required. Responds to compliance and audit issues, performs risk assessments, writes management response to audits, and oversees implementation of audit findings.
• Performs vulnerability and penetration tests, remediates vulnerabilities and baseline compliance violations, advises OTIS management on vulnerabilities.
• Identifies and responds to security incidents, works closely with UT, local and federal law enforcement agencies as required, files monthly incident reports to state.
• Reviews advisories and bulletins, researches new security threats, and attends technical training and security conferences. Researches and evaluates new technologies.
• Monitors the effectiveness of defined controls for mission critical information.
• Other duties as assigned.

Bachelor's degree in a related field. Ten years experience in the information security field, including five years of management of technical staff.

Certified Information Systems Auditor and/or Certified Information Systems Security Professional or equivalent certifications preferred.

• May work around standard office conditions.
• Uses standard office equipment
• Requires occasional evening or weekend hours

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to a minimum of 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. Participation in TRS is mandatory.

A background check will be conducted on candidates under final consideration. The background check may include any or all of the following: criminal history check, prior employment verification, education verification, professional references check, and motor vehicle records check. Background checks are conducted by third-party vendors. Upon request form the third-party vendor, candidates under final consideration must provide the required information for the background checks to be completed.

The University of Texas System Administration is a federal contractor committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified applicants and employees in all terms and conditions of employment. U. T. System will provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state laws.

For information on accommodations for individuals with disabilities, please contact the Office of Talent and Innovation at oti@utsystem.edu.