Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The City of Austin is a public-sector organization providing services to the Austin community. It is seeking an IT Security Consultant to lead the design, implementation, and operation of enterprise identity governance and administration capabilities, including IAM integrations, automated provisioning, federation technologies, compliance, and access governance.
Responsibilities
- Plans, designs, implements, and monitors risk mitigation and compliance of security measures, policies, and procedures
- Manages response to high-level information security issues
- Provides security program leadership in designing, procuring, and implementing secure IT solutions for enterprise-wide application and infrastructure related projects, including business continuity and disaster recovery plans
- Develops, maintains, and publishes documentation for enterprise-wide IT security standards, procedures, and guidelines
- Maintains awareness of security industry trends and identifies areas where existing information or physical security infrastructure requires change or development
- Provides risk assessments and security briefings to advise on critical issues that may affect security of enterprise infrastructure or business processes
- Performs computer security incident response to possible security breaches or policy violations
- Performs information and physical security investigations
- Develops security awareness and compliance training programs
- Consults on projects or projects manage security implementations and development
- May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others
Skills
- * Knowledge in networking, wireless, databases, applications, and system operations and how they interact with each other
- * Knowledge of enterprise information security systems and implementation
- * Knowledge of securing different types of systems
- * Knowledge of industry and department best practices, requirements and policies and procedures
- * Skills in security assessments and recommendations
- * Skill in analyzing and investigation of information security trends
- * Skill in mentoring and monitoring daily work activities of others
- * Skill in selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures
- * Skill in documenting and maintaining complex application and process or configuration information
- * Skill in identifying complex problems and implementing solutions
- * Skill in facilitating meetings of diverse stakeholders
- * Ability to educate various personnel regarding information security
- * Ability to identify trends as well as isolated events
- * Ability to accurately identify/determine customer needs and take appropriate actions and/or steps to address identified needs
- * Ability to recognize, value, and include different perspectives, experiences, approaches, and cultures in achieving organizational goals
- * Ability to gain and maintain the trust and confidence of others and the organization through consistency and reliability
- * Ability to give, receive, or share thoughts, ideas, perspective, and data to create shared understanding
- * Ability to inspire, motivate, and influence others to achieve individual and collective goals
- * Ability to make sound decisions in a timely manner that solve issues and stand the test of time
- * Ability to recognize, plan, focus upon, and work toward what is most important or critical
- * Ability to recognize strengths and areas for improvement in others and to provide opportunities, guidance, and encouragement to build skills and capacity
- * Ability to recognize, manage, and resolve conflict efficiently and equitably
- * Ability to see a broad view of an issue or challenge across typical organizational lines and beyond the present
- * Ability to create, convey, and instill a unified vision and purpose
- * Ability to see past the moment and adapt to a rapidly changing environment
- * Ability to achieve organizational goals and objectives
- * Ability to navigate relationships involving complex, emotional, and/or value-based issues in order to influence and achieve positive results
- * Graduation with a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in a field related to the job, plus four (4) years related experience
- * Experience may substitute for education up to four (4) years
- Position will be primarily remote, on-site presence required as operational & manager requests determine; occasional in-person work. Candidates will be required to address issues after hours and require one to reside within Texas
- Experience and Hands-On Identity Integration & Federation Expertise: Workday/ServiceNow integration, SAML/OIDC/OAuth2 configuration, SCIM/API provisioning life-cycle triggers, and integration monitoring
- Experience with Provisioning Automation, Life-cycle Engineering, and IaC: Life-cycle management design, scripting, automation, CI/CD awareness, attribute mapping, provisioning rule maintenance
- Experience with Identity Governance, Audit Support, and Compliance Operations: Access reviews, policy exception workflows, HIPAA/CJIS support, evidence preparation, trend analysis, documentation management
Benefits
- Medical
- Paid leave time
- A great retirement plan
- Training opportunities
- Generous leave
- Work-life balance programs
- Extensive benefits
- City of Austin Employees' Retirement System
- Access to public transit and bike-friendly infrastructure
- Wellness programs
- On-site fitness centers
- Mental health support
- Professional development and leadership opportunities
- Innovative and sustainable environments that foster collaboration and inspiration
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