IT Security Officer

UNITED STATES COURTS - DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

DISTRICT COURT | BANKRUPTCY COURT | PROBATION & PRETRIAL SERVICES
55 PLESANT STREET, CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03301

IT Security Officer (2026-02B)

Location:

Concord, NH
Salary Range: CPS CL 28 ($81,074 to $131,826)
* Based on Qualifications and Experience
Opening Date:
June 17, 2026
Closing Date:
Open Until Filled

Position Overview

The IT Security Officer primarily performs professional work related to the management of information technology security policy, planning, development, implementation, training, and support for the court. The incumbent provides IT security and serves as a team lead to fulfill security objectives within the court. The incumbent ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems, networks, and data and creates, promotes, and adheres to standardized/repeatable processes for the delivery of security services.

The IT Security Officer proactively engages all users in security awareness and training activities to promote the appropriate use of best security practices.

The incumbent is responsible for assisting in the implementation of local security policies, processes, and technologies that are consistent with the national information security program as well as for collaborating with other judiciary stake holders, such as the Administrative Office and other court IT personnel, to identify and collectively advance security initiatives both within and beyond court unit boundaries. Other responsibilities include assisting the network administrator in the administration of the judiciary’s information technology network by developing standards, recommending network infrastructure change, and participating in high-level and long-term design and analysis of the court’s network systems.

The incumbent will also work with endpoint administrators to ensure the secure deployment of devices into production.

Primary Representative Duties

• Review, evaluate, recommend, and enact change to the district’s technology security programs.
• Promote and provide support of existing information security services, including those that are pertinent to network infrastructure, locally developed and nationally supported software applications, software, data, voice, and video telecommunications, mobile/remote access, and other technologies used by the court.
• Provide technical advisory and remediation recommendations and best practices to securely design, implement, maintain, or modify IT systems and networks.
• Perform research, implement and maintain audits, and perform security vulnerability scanning to identify potential vulnerabilities in, and threats to, existing and proposed technologies, and notify the appropriate personnel of the risk potential.
• Recommend changes to ensure the reliability of information systems and to prevent and defend against unauthorized access to systems, networks, and data.
• Partner with the Director of Shared IT Services in the role of IT security incident response team lead. Coordinate security efforts with other members of the IT security incident response team. Facilitate appropriate action and response to various information security incidents. Log, track, document, and communicate security activity through the lifecycle of the incident.
• Serve as a first level approver for all IT security exceptions. Once approved, the ITSO maintains a comprehensive list, routinely assessing methods to remove the exception.
• Provide technical advisory services on matters of IT security, including security strategy and implementation, to court executives, and other senior court staff. Educate project stakeholders about security concepts.
• Create and employ methodologies, templates, guidelines, checklists, procedures, and other documents to establish repeatable processes across the court’s information technology security services.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of local court unit security policies and guidance, the
  remediation of identified risks, and the implementation of security measures.
• Provide security analysis of IT activities to ensure that appropriate security measures are in place, documented and enforced. Conduct security risk and vulnerability assessments of planned and installed information systems to identify weaknesses, risks, and protection requirements.
• Manage information security projects (or security-related aspects of other IT projects) to ensure milestones are completed in the appropriate order and according to schedule. Prepare special management reports for the court as needed.
• Perform routine scans and remediations to system vulnerabilities and monitor for outdated applications and security related matters.
• Serve as team lead in the administration of IT security-related automated tools, including but not limited to Endpoint Detection and Response platforms, operating system and software patch management mechanisms, web security and filtering platforms, system logging facilities, and locally installed or cloud based firewall…