Remote - IT Security Specialist

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Title: IT Security Specialist

Location: Raleigh, NC (Remote)

Duration : 12 Months

Client : State of NC

Job Description:

The NCDIT-Transportation Information Security Office requires a senior information security architect specializing in risk assessment and technical consultation, focusing on industry standard security, risk, and compliance, especially PCI-DSS and NIST.

***The candidate will be allowed to work remotely until all staff return to site. At that point the candidate will be required to come onsite.

***The candidate will need to use his or her own computer until he or she starts working onsite. When the candidate is working full time on site he or she will be given NCDOT equipment.

The NCDIT-Transportation Information Security Office (ISO) requires a senior information security architect analyst specializing in risk assessment and business technical consultation.  This architect resource will consult on multiple projects to recommend security best practices, develop architectures and hardening guides, and review and evaluate solutions against relevant risk frameworks and regulations.  This resource will provide information security policy, process, procedure and application consulting to the NCDIT-Transportation Information Security Office focusing on DMV program and project support.  This position will be an NCDIT-Transportation Information Security Business Architect (ISBA) dedicated primarily to DMV projects, and will support some minor overflow project consulting for other Divisions and IT consulting. This resource will lead PCI-DSS compliance activities for NCDOT.  This resource should possess senior information security technical skillsets as well as senior soft skills as this resource will interface with IT and business leaders across the agency.  This resource should possess senior skillsets in preparing reports and presentations to senior management, program/project management and related staff on the recommendations, issues and status of any given IT information security aspect of a project or initiative.  This resource must have extensive advanced information security practitioner experience with hands-on experience implementing and operating a suite of standard information security technologies such as but not limited to firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM and network traffic capture and analysis.  The position will require extensive experience and knowledge of information security frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST 800-53 and other standards such as PCI-DSS, FISMA, OWASP and federal law and NC General Statute.  This position will benefit from familiarity and experience with IT architecture frameworks and methodologies such as SABSA and TOGAF.