Senior Cybersecurity and Systems Engineer Job Troy area,Alabama USA,IT/Tech

Senior Cybersecurity and Systems Engineer – Troy University

Location: Troy – T01
Work Status: Full-Time (FT)

This position is responsible for leading the cybersecurity and systems team to deliver organizational goals, managing the security program, systems architecture, and ensuring application security scanning and vulnerability assessment infrastructure. The role includes coaching and mentoring the team, conducting annual performance reviews, defining security strategy, raising accountability through timely issue escalation, resolving conflicts, maintaining enterprise-level systems architecture, designing technical documentation, staying current on industry trends, performing tech talks, and other assigned tasks.

Collaborate with Security and Systems Leadership to lead the team on delivering agreed upon organizational goals
Schedule and participate in coaching and mentoring sessions with the team
Perform and document annual performance reviews for the team
Participate in defining systems and security strategy for Troy University
Actively manage the security program, systems architecture, and provide consistent status updates to IT leadership regarding progress against objectives
Raise accountability by escalating issues in a timely manner and creating and maintaining detailed documentation
Resolve issues, dependencies, and conflicts; ensuring that the team is involved, engaged, and informed
Establish and maintain an enterprise application security scanning and vulnerability assessment infrastructure that will collect and store application vulnerability data from all environments, in a unified performance dashboard
Establish and maintain an enterprise-level systems architecture and oversee backup of those systems
Design and ensure technical documentation is maintained for the area of responsibility
Stay up-to-date with trends in information security and systems management
Perform tech talks and other awareness campaigns to spread security knowledge throughout Troy University
Other tasks as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Security, Information Systems, or related field

Minimum of three years of enterprise security/systems experience

Minimum of four years of Security or IT management experience, preferably for teams of four or more

Knowledge of frameworks/regulations such as ISO 27001, NIST 800‑53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, GDPR, SOX, ITIL, COBIT, COSO, or similar

Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects and assist/advise engineers in establishing appropriate priorities

Ability to manage key customer relationships, including with senior managers

Ability to influence a cross‑functional team to accomplish goals

Excellent analytical skills and ability to learn quickly

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to be flexible

Preferred Qualifications

Accredited certifications, such as CISSP, OSCP, GCIH, GCIA, CEH, or CCNA

Previous SOC/NOC/DC experience

Work Hours

Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm; additional work hours as needed; some travel required.

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