Information Security Officer

Job Posting:

JR101154 Information Security Officer (Open)

Department:

BSU Business Operations, PM

Position Type:

Regular

Open Date:

07-07-2025

Close Date:

$145,000 - $155,000

Job Description:

Provides strategic direction, leadership, and coordination for enterprise security strategies in Information Technology that safeguard information resources.

Responsibilities:

• Perform technical security assessments of computing environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established Information Assurance (IA) standards and regulations, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Assist in the development, implementation, and updating of security policies and monitoring of IT security procedures; validate and verify system security requirement definitions and analysis.
• Coordinate Enterprise Application Security with Functional Data Stewards to ensure access verification and authorization requirements are monitored and approved.
• Maintain Enterprise Application Security Business processes and work with IA staff in workflow management of security and access requests and approval.
• Integrate IA, cybersecurity, security systems, and system components including those for networking, computing, and enclave environments.
• Ensure security best practices are integrated into systems and operational environments; assist in the identification and implementation of appropriate information security functionality.
• Interface with IT and non-IT personnel to resolve security-related issues; assess and mitigate system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle.
• Research and proactively identify security updates, conduct vendor and platform risk analysis, and perform security analyses and risk, vulnerability assessments; support the handling, reporting, recording, and resolution of campus-wide security incidents.
• Ensure security is embedded via processes and systems throughout the university by working with various university departments.
• Manage external and internal audits related to information security.
• Collaborate with the USM system office, risk management, and other teams to ensure comprehensive security governance.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in information security or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CISSP or similar certification.
• Familiarity with modern technologies such as cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence.

Conditions of Employment:

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
• Note: Position excluded from Union Representation and Collective Bargaining

Additional Job Information:

Benefits include medical, dental, prescription, long-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment insurance and life insurance; paid time for paid sick leave, annual leave, and personal leave; 12 paid holidays per year, tuition remission; employer-funded pension and supplemental retirement accounts.

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The University makes, and will continue to make, reasonable accommodations to promote the employment of qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans, unless such accommodations would impose an undue hardship on the University's business.

 In addition, employees and applicants will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion, or discrimination because they have engaged in, or may have engaged in, activities such as filing a complaint, assisting or participating in an investigation, compliance review or hearing, or opposing any act or practice made unlawful, or exercising any other right protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended or the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended.