Job Description

JOB SUMMARY:

Plans, manages, and evaluates districtwide information systems security and strategies necessary to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic information. Provides technical leadership, project management, and task execution for administration, programming, maintenance, performance, and implementation of the security of various enterprise wide applications and infrastructure platforms.

Supervision Received And Exercised

Receives general supervision from the Information Technology Director or designated Assistant Information Technology Director.

Exercises direct supervision over professional, technical, and support staff.

Examples of Duties

Essential Job Functions

Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead Cyber Security initiatives for the District.
• Provides project management and leadership.
• Assists in performing general management functions within the Information Technology Department including budget development and administration, organizational development, employee development and training, and other personnel related functions.
• Recommends and assists in the implementation of goals, objectives, policies, and procedures.
• Supervises, trains, evaluates, and monitors the work of department staff.
• Establishes and manages an ongoing proactive Risk Assessment program to define, classify, and secure critical assets, assess threats and vulnerabilities to those assets, and implement appropriate safeguards.
• Prepare cost estimates for budget recommendations.
• Prepares oral and written reports.
• Serves as a central resource internally and externally in response to infrastructure security concerns or questions.
• Coordinate the activities of the incident response teams.
• Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Plans, implements, monitors, maintains and enhances network infrastructure systems.
• Work closely with outside organizations such as local law enforcement, state and safety agencies, and other local education agencies for the purpose of enhancing and coordinating security efforts.
• Prepares and presents technical materials and education programs such as information security awareness.
• Assists in the security and management of data centers, disaster recovery facilities, and services hosted in the cloud across multiple locations.
• Provides enterprise level design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable network infrastructure that may include routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and other network equipment.
• Contributes to the overall engineering, design, build, and support of new and existing infrastructure.
• Implements, manages, and enforces network and server monitoring systems.
• Develops and maintains security documentation for support, audit, compliance, and disaster recovery purposes.
• Leads and supports audit processes, penetration testing, reviewing log reports, investigations, etc.
• Works with various teams within the District and third-party vendors to effectively plan, deploy, and manage technology-based solutions.
• Test and recommend patches for network systems, software, and applications.
• Designs, evaluates, and recommends IT solutions, writes Request for Proposals, Scope of Work, and creates technical documentation.
• Analyze, monitor, and remediate the source of security breaches, attacks, and hacks.
• Lead with developing, documenting, and maintaining security configuration baselines for broad range of IT assets that support District operations and identifies any unsecure deviations requiring mitigation.
• Monitor, install, and maintain the security of hardware and software such as servers, networks, firewall, VPN, and databases for the District.
• Respond to both non-emergency and emergency situations involving technological and computer security as needed and take appropriate action in accordance with established guidelines.
• Review and audit log reports from firewall, web, email filters, antivirus, and security information event management. (SIEM), and other systems for actionable items and process requests in accordance to IT policies.
• Research IT security issues and industry trends to make recommendations for internal improvements.
• Performs job related duties as assigned.
  
  

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION/TRAINING: (These are the minimum experience and education/training standards, which will be used to admit or reject applicants for examination.)

Four (4) years of full-time work experience (within the last five (5) years) in IT security operations performing task related to monitoring computer systems, analyzing security threats and vulnerabilities, or troubleshoot and resolving information security issues, which includes at least one (1) year in a lead capacity of a technical function.

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A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

CompTIA Security+, Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), or Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification is desirable.

LICENSES/CERTIFICATES/REGISTRATIONS: (Must be presented upon offer of employment and maintained throughout employment in this position).

Possession of a valid California driver license and auto liability insurance.

Additional Information

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Only online applications are accepted via https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sanbernardinousd

Computer access is available in the Personnel Commission Office.

APPLICATIONS: Following closing of recruitment, no additional application material or information will be accepted.

RECRUITMENT TYPE: OPEN & PROMOTIONAL (Anyone may apply for this position).

ADDITIONAL SALARY INFORMATION: This is an exempt position, Management Salary Range 56. Most positions in this class work 8 hours/228-days per year. The probationary period for employees in this classification is one (1) year.

BENEFITS: Health, Vision, Dental and PERS (retirement). Benefits are available to full-time and part-time employees.

For complete details visit Employee Benefits

The Examination

• Training and Experience Evaluation. WEIGHT: 100%
• Only qualified candidates will be invited to participate in the examination process.
• Successful candidates who pass all parts of the examination process will be placed on the eligibility list in order of their relative merit.
• Candidates will be notified in accordance with the Personnel Commission Rules.
• This eligibility list will be active for a period of (1) year.
  
  

Reasonable Accommodations

The Personnel Commission will make every effort possible to ensure that all applicants compete on an equal level. At any time in the employment process, applicants with disabilities may request reasonable accommodations if required. To give district staff adequate time to evaluate each case, and to arrange for accommodations, applicants must submit their request to the Affirmative Action Office at (909) 381-1122 as soon as possible. Failure to do so may result in the inability to provide the necessary reasonable accommodations in a timely manner.

Fingerprinting, drug and tuberculosis testing is required of all successful candidates new to the district.

District employees and external applicants must submit the required proof of education and/or training with each application by uploading copies of a high school diploma, GED certification (or equivalent), transcripts (official or unofficial), college degree(s), and/or training certificates. If the required proof of education is not attached to the application you may be disqualified. All relevant experience must be clearly indicated in the "Work Experience" section of the application. Resumes will not be considered.

Closing Date: June 3, 2025 at 11:59 P.M. PST

Classified Non-management Employee

PERS Retirement; Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Vacation, Holidays and Sick Leave. Benefits are available to full-time and part-time employees.

Classified Management Employee

PERS Retirement; Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance. Benefits are based on a 40-hour workweek, 8 hours per day.

School Police Officers

PERS Retirement; Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance. Benefits are based on a 40-hour workweek.

School Police Officers Differential Compensation

POST Intermediate Certification: 6% to base pay

POST Advanced Certification: 8% to base pay

Associate degree: 5% to base pay

Bachelor degree: 7% to base pay

Master degree: 9% increase to base pay

For complete benefit details, please visit https://www.sbcusd.com/district_offices/business_services_division/employee_benefits