Title: Information Security Manager - West Suburbs of Chicago

 We're seeking a proven InfoSec professional to lead and manage our IT Security programs, ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of all systems, applications, and company data.   You will be responsible for developing and implementing security policies, perform risk assessments, respond to security incidents and conduct security awareness training sessions. 

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Only Citizens need apply, location is the western Chicago suburbs, Salary is $135-145k with Excellent Benefits and Annual Bonus. This position operates in a standard in-person office environment 5 days a week.  Light travel may infrequently be required to terminal locations.   

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and governance on Information Security compliance initiatives.
• Lead and manage a team of security professionals, providing training, mentoring and evaluations.
• Develop and enforce security policies, procedures and standards to protect the digital assets with necessary internal business stakeholders
• Continuously evaluate and review existing security technologies and tools, recommending new solutions to improve the overall security infrastructure.
• Oversee and monitor all security systems, networks, and endpoints to detect and respond to potential and actual threats and breaches.
• Lead investigations of security incidents, breaches, and vulnerabilities, taking necessary actions to ensure they are contained, mitigated, and resolved. Recommend and lead future follow-up corrective actions to ensure root causes are eliminated or mitigated. Work related legal matters associated with such events as needed.
• Establish metrics and reporting benchmarks to measure the efficiency, effectiveness and maturity level of the security program.

Requirements:

• 3-5 years in a hands-on role supporting a medium to large organization in Information Security. Experience maintaining and enhancing  IT Cyber Security programs.
•  Interested more in experience and best practices in those specific areas rather than the specific tool itself. 
• Strong foundational level knowledge in a broad range of information technology core concepts including networking, architecture & design, firewalls and routing.
• Strong foundational Knowledge in Azure including securing Microsoft Entra ID and Azure Hybrid environments.
• Experience with some Crowdstrike or Netwrix preferred 
• Bachelor’s degree/Information Security, Technology or related field.

The qualified Junior to Junior to Mid-Level C#.Net Developer will work with the senior staff for guidance to create, modify, and maintain new and existing software applications and integrations in support of business requirements.  You will work with the Application Development team to identify, analyze, design, test, and deploy software applications. 

Note:

Must reside in the Chicago area currently, Must be a Citizen please... work location is the western suburbs, Salary is $83-90k with Excellent Benefits and educational certification perks. This position operates in a standard in-person office environment 5 days a week for now.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyze, define, develop, document, and deliver applications on a project-by-project basis in collaboration with internal users, business process owners and external vendors and partners. 
• Work with IT to improve computing systems and software using automation and improve data for reporting
• Understand the infrastructure and how it is configured to support business software such as Dynamics GP, Workday and other custom applications.
• Learn and improve coding skills with progressively more complex programming projects.
• Work with IT to identify and resolve issues with software products and custom software systems.
• Identify ways to gain improved performance through improved database Input/Output, SQL statements and                 execution plans, table keys and indexes.
• Produce efficient code in custom applications written in C#.Net and SQL stored procedures
• Provide support to user base by addressing programming-related requests, questions and issues. Diagnose and debug, review existing code, and provide solutions and enhancements to fulfill business needs.
• Professionalism in these external facing collaborations is essential and key to maintaining good working relationships.

Development Skills Required  

Hands-on experience in an Agile environment using:

• C#.Net coding in a .Net framework 4.0, MS SQL, Stored procedures, SQL Profiler, SQL Server 2016, Planned SQL Server Managed Instance & some SQL Server 2019 
•  REST Web APIs, SOAP API, JSON, GIT
•  Zendesk ticketing
•  Document creation and sharing in SharePoint
•  MS O365 tools, Word/Excel