Cybersecurity Manager

Job Summary

The Cybersecurity Manager serves as a strategic collaborator, bridging the gap between technical execution and business strategy, ensuring our data remains secure while our operations stay agile. This role leads a high-impact team to stay ahead of evolving threats and will report to the School of Medicine and Public Health's Chief Information Security Officer. The ideal candidate views security as a human challenge and will build a high-trust security culture through coaching, mentoring, and collaboration with faculty, staff, and students.

This position protects HIPAA‑regulated patient data and supports the School’s $1B+ research enterprise against a sophisticated global threat landscape.

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of cybersecurity services and infrastructure, ensuring best practices and standards are applied.
• Determine necessary technical changes to improve security.
• Develop procedures and training for daily administrative tasks for cybersecurity services and infrastructure.
• Ensure change management processes are followed for cybersecurity services and infrastructure.
• Direct the daily activities of the cybersecurity team by prioritizing technical workflows, managing resource allocation, and providing technical mentorship to ensure projects are completed on schedule and security standards are consistently met across all units.
• Handle work performed both in‑person on campus and remotely off‑site as required.

• 5 years of experience in cybersecurity.
• Ability to communicate with diverse audiences from technical IT folks to senior leadership.
• Proven experience navigating high‑stakes disagreements between technical requirements and business needs.
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity industry standards (HIPAA, NIST, ISO, CIS, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to consult on the development, design, and implementation of security best practices and standards.
• Ability to identify risk associated with business processes, operations, information security programs, and projects.

• Experience managing a team.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Technical knowledge of research data security.
• Proven experience automating repetitive cybersecurity tasks.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code.
• Cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, or GIAC.

Bachelor's degree preferred.

The starting salary is $120,000 annually, negotiable based on experience and qualifications.

Employees can expect generous vacation, holidays, sick leave, competitive insurance and savings accounts, and retirement benefits.

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW‑Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinions enrich the university community. We commit to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as interlinked goals.

The University of Wisconsin‑Madison is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran, and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies.