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Information Security Director

Percepta
15 hours ago
Full-time
On-site
Austin, Texas, United States
Director, Information Security
The successful candidate for this position will be a highly motivated, proven self-starter with a thorough understanding of the diverse aspects of information security. The Director of IT Security is responsible for the following:
  • Comprehend and enforce applicable laws, regulations and compliance relating to IT security and privacy, working closely with the Legal
  • Design and implementation of security policy and procedures
  • Work directly with others in the IT department to maintain and proactively monitor core infrastructure components, including products from Cisco, Oracle, MS Windows,  and servers running versions of Linux/Unix operating systems
  • Lead security assessments of systems, applications and networks in a complex IT environment
  • Make relevant recommendations for products and procedures to maintain and improve IT security
  • Lead security incident response
  • Work in the evaluation of current and future applications and network devices
  • Handling sensitive, confidential data
  • Act as liaison with entire company to promote, educate, and ensure compliance of IT security
Requirements:
  • Three years professional experience designing, implementing and managing enterprise IT security
  • Thorough understanding of IT security and privacy laws, regulations and compliance, including forensics, SOX, PCI and HIPAA.  SAS70, eDiscovery or COBIT/ISO experience highly desirable.
  • Perform or work with others to execute security assessments of technical environments
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and speech, as well as being able to prepare and present IT related material to a wide variety of audiences, including non-technical executives and management and on occasion, to large groups
  • Successful project management experience
  • Understanding of concepts relating to Identity Management
  • Ability to coordinate incident response with many internal and external organizations including IT, legal, internal audit, operations, executive management and local and federal authorities as needed
  • Experience developing, reviewing, administering, and implementing security policies
  • B.A. or B.S required, advanced degree preferred
  • Experience within the outsourced (BPO) Contact Center Experience would be ideal
CERTIFICATIONS: Security certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP(ISC2)), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Global Information Assurance Certification, GIAC Information Security Officer (GISO), and/or GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC).