Director, IT Security - Merakey

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your career while working with an extraordinary team? At Merakey, we put heart and soul into everything we do. We are seeking Director, IT Security to join our team at our program. This is a Hybrid position (twice a month)


* Recommend and manage short- and long-term initiatives designed to meet business requirements for infrastructure functionality, performance, availability, cost, and business continuity needs.
* Assist in creating departmental operating and capital budget.
* Guide a diverse IT team; communicate job expectations; assemble and coordinate project team members; assign individual responsibilities, planning, monitoring, measuring, and appraising job results.
* Partner with the other IT leaders to ensure security and compliance for infrastructure related IT Legal and Regulatory required policies, and procedures.
* Establish and execute strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security program directives and plans, including all information security training efforts for all Merakey companies ensuring that the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information is owned, controlled, or processed in a manner compliant with IT Policy and relevant regulatory authorities.
* Develop and maintain group information security policies, standards, guidelines and oversee the dissemination of security policies and practices; identify knowledge gaps to increase awareness of relevant information security practices.
* Provide leadership and guidance on information security topics, advising and collaborating on security processes, business continuity, and disaster recovery plans to all Merakey companies.
* Ensure that system and application security design is in accordance with IT Policy; consult with other IT team members to ensure that security is factored into the evaluation, selection, installation, and configuration of hardware, applications, and software.
* Lead investigations of any actual or potential information security violations and manage escalation of security events.
* Monitor external threat environment for emerging threats and advise relevant stakeholders on appropriate courses of action.
* Provide regular reporting on the current state of the information security program to the CIO, Executive Director of IT Operations, and others senior leadership as appropriate.
* Establish metrics and reporting framework to measure the efficiency, effectiveness, and maturity level of the program.
* Liaise with relevant business programs, divisions and external agencies as needed to ensure that the company maintains a strong security posture.
* Work with system administrators and application owners to audit, monitor and validate their environment's security, including conducting gap analysis and other comprehensive internal assessments of existing systems to improve the security infrastructure and mitigate risks.
* Provide oversight to the architecture and engineering of new security systems, including the evaluation of technical designs.
* Support technical resources and ensure they are geared towards delivering secure and safe business change at pace.
* Deploy safeguards that prevent security breaches and keep all company and guest data secure. Implement a response and recovery plan from all security breaches.
* Identify the need for upgrades or new products that provide assurance, as per a clear strategic plan.
* Assist in building relationships with vendors and overseeing all related IT contracts.
* Additional responsibilities as assigned.





Benefits

Merakey offers medical, dental - vision insurance plans, competitive compensation plans and more!


* DailyPay
* Work/Life Balance
* Flexible Schedules
* Cell Phone Discount Plans
* Employee Referral Bonuses
* Tuition Reimbursement
* Care.com Membership

To fill out an on-line application: www.merakey.org/careers



Requisition number: 92793



Earn: $145,000 annually



About Merakey

Merakey is a non-profit provider of developmental, behavioral health, and education services. More than 8,000 employees provide support to nearly 40,000 individuals and families throughout 12 states across the country each year. Click here to watch a video about Merakey. Merakey strictly follows a zero-tolerance policy for abuse.

Merakey is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer! We deeply value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ethnic background, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or disability status. Moreover, we are committed to creating teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. Merakey welcomes all Veterans to apply!



The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications:


* Bachelor's degree or equivalent from an accredited college or university in Information Management, Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, or a related field.
* 4 years of experience in Security, managing and defining strategic technical long-term roadmap.
* Security Certification required, CISSP preferred.
* Proven experience as IT director or similar role with a deep knowledge in the following technical disciplines: infrastructure and network design, firewalls, load balancers, middleware, servers and storage, database management and operations, clustering technologies, VLAN/virtualization, cloud/hybrid-cloud technologies, storage area networks, DNS services, active directory and protocols, and telephone, voice, video, and data communications.
* Practical and hands-on experience creating and implementing system, database, network, and security architectures.
* Experience working in internal, external and hybrid Cloud environments. Experience preferred with configuring, maintaining, and managing Microsoft Azure Cloud and Office 365.
* Understanding of Microsoft Azure Cloud and Office 365 services and concepts, implementation, and administration skills.
* Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with teams across the entire organization.
* Excellent leadership and decision-making skills.
* Strong documentation and project management skills.
* Experience in analysis, implementation and evaluation of IT systems and their specification.
* Excellent organizational, stakeholder and leadership skills.
* Outstanding communication and presentation skills.

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