Infrastructure and Security Administrator

Position:Infrastructure & Security Administrator

Location: Nelsonville, OH

Job :980

# of Openings:1

Infrastructure and Security Administrator

The Infrastructure & Security Administrator is responsible for the operation, security, reliability, monitoring, and continuous improvement of the College's network, cybersecurity technologies, physical technology infrastructure, and related systems.

The position serves as the primary service owner for wired and wireless networking, firewalls, Internet connectivity, network security, physical security technology, cameras, access control technology, infrastructure monitoring, UPS systems, and related services.

The Infrastructure & Security Administrator also serves as the primary technical lead for cybersecurity operations, working under the cybersecurity governance and risk-management direction of the Chief Information Officer.

The position works collaboratively with the Cloud Services Administrator, Director of Application Services, Campus Technology Specialists, facilities personnel, public safety personnel, vendors, and other College departments to provide a secure, resilient, and reliable technology environment.

Network and security services are critical to College operations, this position will participate in scheduled maintenance, system upgrades, cybersecurity response, emergency service restoration, or infrastructure work outside normal operating hours in accordance with College policies and applicable employment requirements.

The position is expected to maintain sufficient documentation and cross-training to support continuity of critical infrastructure and security services.

This position will have access to and encounter confidential information. Strict confidentiality must be maintained and shared only on a need-to-know basis. Further, confidential information must only be accessed on an as-needed basis.

This position is expected to participate in an on-call rotation to provide coverage to the College outside of normal business hours.

The Infrastructure & Security Administrator serves as the primary service owner for:

• Wired networking
• Wireless networking
• Fortinet/Forti Gate firewall services
• Security monitoring
• Vulnerability management
• Physical security technology
• Electronic access control technology
• Network-connected point-of-sale and meal-service technologies
• UPS and infrastructure power monitoring
• Network-connected operational technology
  
  Backup and recovery infrastructure, where assigned
• Core network services and infrastructure dependencies
• Provide confidential information for bargaining unit contract negotiations
• Management of student interns

• Administer the College's Cisco Meraki network environment.
• Configure, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot switches, wireless access points, VLANs, routing, addressing, and related networking technologies.
• Maintain reliable wired and wireless connectivity throughout classrooms, labs, offices, public spaces, and other College facilities.
• Maintain connectivity between college buildings and campuses using SDWAN and VPN technologies.
• Monitor network capacity, availability, utilization, performance, and security.
• Plan network improvements, equipment replacement, expansion, and lifecycle activities.
• Maintain accurate network diagrams, inventories, configurations, and documentation.
• Coordinate Internet, telecommunications, and network-related vendor services as assigned.

• Administer and maintain the College's Forti Gate firewall environment.
• Maintain firewall policies, segmentation, secure remote access, filtering, threat-prevention capabilities, and related security functions.
• Regularly review firewall configurations, administrative access, firmware, security recommendations, and logs.
• Maintain appropriate network segmentation between administrative, instructional, student, guest, infrastructure, Internet-of-Things, and other network environments.
• Work with the Cloud Services Administrator and Director of Application Services to securely provide network access to cloud and enterprise services.

• Serve as the primary technical lead for day-to-day cybersecurity operations.
• Implement security standards, technical controls, and remediation activities established under the College's cybersecurity program and direction from the CIO.
• Monitor security events, alerts, logs, and threat information.
• Investigate suspicious activity and coordinate technical incident response.
• Conduct or coordinate vulnerability scanning and remediation activities.
• Track identified vulnerabilities through remediation or documented risk acceptance.
• Assist in maintaining secure configurations for network, infrastructure, and connected systems.
• Participate in cybersecurity incident response, containment, recovery, and post-incident review.
• Support cybersecurity assessments, audits, cyber insurance requirements, and risk-management…