Job Summary:

Designs and implements security procedures, and controls necessary resources to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of UTMB mission critical information resources. Provides high-level support for the intuitional information security program.

Major Duties / Critical Tasks:

• Assists Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in determining strategic data and information security requirements.
• Develops necessary project plans and supports the implementation of approved projects
• Provide technical support for data confidentiality protection, system integrity, system reliability, audit and system recovery methods and procedures.
• Investigates unauthorized access, modification, disclosure, or destruction and develops controls to prevent such occurrences.
• Provides technical support for selection, configuration, and maintenance of security software, utilities, and hardware; as well as the remediation of known vulnerabilities.
• Provide technical expertise in security architect and design.
• Develops technical security standards to support policies and practice standards, assists and creates monitoring standards, and incident investigation procedures.
• Identifies and resolves security vulnerabilities, operational issues, audit concerns with existing applications, hardware implementations, and legacy systems.
• Supports the development and implementation of security awareness training programs.
• Leads, coaches, and mentors staff to assist in their growth and professional development.
• Supports investigations relating to theft of information resources, abuse of computer systems and violation of the UTMB Information Security policy and/or any other privacy policies.
• Monitors computer resources for evidence of compromise, responds to and reports security incidents and conducts trend analysis.
• Participates as a team member.
• Adheres to internal controls and reporting structures.
• Performs related duties as required.

Required Education / Experience:

Bachelor’s degree equivalent and 4 years IT Security related experience.

Equipment: 

Various computer systems and related equipment.

Working Environment:

Standard hospital, clinical and/or office environment.

Other: 

Specific job requirements or physical location of some positions allocated to this classification, may render this position security sensitive, and thereby subject to the provisions of Section 51.215, Texas Education Code. 

Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents in lieu of stated minimums require the prior approval of the Chief Human Resources Officer.