Cybersecurity Director
Company: Duck River Electric Membership Corporation
Location: Topeka
Posted on: October 30, 2024
Job Description:
Kansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. (KEC), the statewide
association for Kansas electric co-ops, seeks a Cybersecurity
Director. This position plays an important role in strengthening
KEC's and its members' cybersecurity resilience by providing an
improved understanding of emerging cyber threats and available
threat mitigations. This position will also oversee the management
of KEC information technology architecture including design,
network topology, and managed services contractor engagement. This
position also advocates for solutions that are in the best interest
of KEC as a whole and maintains that perspective as new technology
and architecture is integrated into business operations. Major
Duties:
- Work with the Kansas Intelligence Fusion Center (KIFC) to
optimize KEC's utilization of available government resources on
both physical security and cybersecurity topics as they apply to
Kansas Electric Cooperatives.
- Subscribe to and stay active with the Electric Sector
Information and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) as well as the Department
of Homeland Security's (DHS) Homeland Security Information Network
(HSIN).
- Stay abreast of reporting emerging from the E-ISAC and
pertinent communities within HSIN. Read this reporting and pass
along pertinent reports to members along with additional analysis
when possible.
- Assist KEC and members with utilizing partnership with the KIFC
to provide better understanding of architectural gaps in network
defenses.
- Perform threat hunting activities on KEC networks using
appropriate tools including but not limited to firewall log traffic
analysis.
- Assist and advise members on threat hunting skills and
tools.
- Assist members by developing network architectural design
options to improve cyber defenses.
- Provide KEC and the members' technical staff with unclassified
emerging threat information tailored to their specific assets.
- Interpret and apply threat information, provided by US
Government Intelligence Community reporting, to vulnerabilities and
consequences of member networks without compromising sensitive
government information or the privacy of KEC and its members.
- Assist members with pertinent cyber terms in contracts and
associated contract negotiations when requested.
- Act as cyber consultant to member leadership in managing their
cyber incidents. Help leadership understand what resources are
available and the best entities to engage for assistance. Act as
member proxy, when requested, to outside resource responding to a
cyber issue.
- Interpret and apply threat information, provided by US
Government Intelligence Community reporting, to vulnerabilities and
consequences of member networks.
- Provide updates to organization leadership pertaining to
emerging threats and progress in member cyber resilience.
- Communicate KEC policy positions through direct conversations,
presentations, and written statements.
- Oversee KEC's managed services provider's administration of
KEC's network and suite of business applications as the primary IT
technical Subject Matter Expert (SME). Provide guidance to the
service provider in a manner where the benefit to KEC organization
is maximized.
- Provide general assistance to KEC staff and overall programming
as needed including, but not limited to, meetings, training, and
special events or projects.
- Stay current with issues important to member electric
cooperatives and KEC members.
- Other duties as assigned. Qualifications include:
- College degree.
- Must have at least five (5) years' experience related to the
electric industry technical support operations in either Operations
Technology (OT) or Information Technology (IT).
- Demonstrated proficiency in managing ethernet wired and
wireless networks including but not limited to routers, switches,
access points, and mesh networks.
- Prefer familiarity with manipulating large .csv data sets with
spreadsheets or command line utilities via scripting. Some data
sets may exceed one million rows.
- Demonstrated proficiency in managing Microsoft networks
Forrest/Domain architectures.
- Prefer education or background in intelligence analysis.
- Prefer education or background in Linux administration and
command line utilities.
- Prefer understanding of operating processes within government
classified facilities.
- Must be eligible or possess current government clearance at the
TS-SCI level.
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Keywords: Duck River Electric Membership Corporation, Manhattan , Cybersecurity Director, Executive , Topeka, Kansas
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