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Information Systems Security Specialist

Salary

$66,267.97 - $95,242.16 Annually

Location

Las Cruces, NM

Job Type

Full-time Regular

Job Number

F109 01-25 TB

Department

Information Technology Services

Opening Date

01/06/2025

Closing Date

2/10/2025 11:59 PM Mountain

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Nature of Work

Monitors and maintains information security and privacy policies and programs to provide protection and confidentiality of City information systems and data generated, stored, and transmitted electronically.

Environmental Factors:

Work is performed in a standard office environment, and at various locations throughout the City with exposure to all types of weather and traffic conditions. Occasional exposure to heat, dust, construction environments, and electrical equipment.

Physical Factors:

Moderate physical demands; mostly desk work requiring the ability to lift and carry personal computer equipment.

Work Situation Factors:

Position involves competing demands, performing multiple tasks, working to deadlines, occasional work beyond normal business hours, and responding to customer issues. Regular attendance is an essential function of this job to ensure continuity of services. Position is subject to drug testing in accordance with applicable State and Federal regulations and City of Las Cruces policies.

Meeting or exceeding the minimum requirements does not guarantee an invitation to participate in the process.

FIRST CONSIDERATION MAY BE GIVEN TO CURRENT CITY OF LAS CRUCES EMPLOYEES WHO MEET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.

Full-time, regular, exempt position.

This position is graded RX22.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Identifies, investigates, and documents specific security issues and violations; conducts and performs assessments and audits of information technology systems and processes.

• Prepares and presents various special and recurring reports; performs various evaluations and analysis on Information systems to identify security risks and report on recommendations and solutions.

• Identifies, documents, tracks, and evaluates vulnerabilities and risks; determines tasks necessary to remediate issues identified; provides notification to management of security breaches or potential issues and recommends solutions in efforts to protect integrity of information and system security.

• Reviews and evaluates placement and role of servers, network devices, and infrastructure; evaluates City needs and implements options for information systems; collaborates with various other departments to ensure that all information systems, servers, networks, and infrastructure are operational and effective.

Assesses configuration of systems and network devices and adherences to standards for controls; evaluates OS patch levels, system logging and monitoring controls, security of system configuration against defined security standards, account policies, user rights, file system and registry security, local and group security polic es, network services configurations, IP addressing and routing,