Job Title (Date): Sr. Information Security Engineer (December 2025)
Department:
Information Technology
Employee Type:
Full-time
Reports to: Assistant Director – IT Infrastructure Services
FLSA Status:
Exempt
Travel Required:
None
Supervisory Responsibility:
None
Salary Range: $99,168 - $148,752
Posting Period:
December 3, 2025 – December 16, 2025
*Typically, initial wage is set between the minimum and the midpoint of the salary range depending on the employee’s qualifications and experience.
Summary of Responsibilities:
The Senior Information Security Engineer serves as the expert in information security, including enterprise-wide security architecture/design, vulnerability management, system / data protection, security centric technical solutions, and leadership for implementing security capabilities, controls, monitoring and alerts. In collaboration with the SERS Information Security and Privacy Officer address complex IT security architecture issues, coordinate with users to determine requirements, ensuring systems are appropriately hardened while striking a balance between user experience and operational security.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for performing all activities necessary for maintaining a strong security posture for the enterprise as well as managing daily security monitoring, alerts, and remediation.
- Serves as a subject matter expert (SME), plans security systems by evaluating network and security technologies; developing requirements for local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), virtual private networks (VPNs), routers, firewalls, and related security and network devices; designs public key infrastructures (PKIs), including use of certification authorities (CAs) and digital signatures as well as hardware and software; adhering to industry standards and best practices.
- Partner with ISO on plans, policies, initiatives, budgets, internal and external audits, responses, as well as resolving audit issues and findings.
- Prepare, prevent, detect, respond, and recover cyber security events. Beyond analysis, provide insight, direction, and leadership to secure SERS’ information assets.
- Knowledge or awareness in information security, compliance, assurance, and/or other security standard methodologies and principles.
- Responsible for assisting with activities designed to systematically run information security, such as security investigations, intelligence, assurance, and/or other project oversight, including developing standard methodologies for information security standards and handling IT controls and compliance with internal policies.
- Monitor, detect, and respond to security events and incidents that may affect SERS, minimizing risk of cyber-attacks and focus on detection and response. threats -.
- Protect SERS from the loss of sensitive information and data through normal business processes and/or malicious actors.
- Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and availability is maintained.
- Develops security architectural reference material to ensure that security practices are being implemented in a repeatable fashion every time a new project is implemented.
- Own the architecture and management of information security systems including, but not limited to, centralized logging, intrusion detection, security networks, application vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, patch management, identity and access management, and encryption and key management.
- Perform reviews and investigations of system logs, events, and alerts from all collected systems and architectures, and take required action to remediate any vulnerabilities and exposure issues.
- Ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and security of all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI) data by strictly adhering to federal and state laws, regulations, polices, and best practices for data protection and access control.
- Other duties as assigned.
The incumbent is required to:
- Carry a cell phone with text messaging capabilities to respond to daily business needs.
Educations and Skills/Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in computer science or related field;
- Five to seven years related experience and/or training;
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification, desired with;
- Ability to adapt and change behavior or methods of approach in rapidly changing environments.
- Strong attention to detail skills.
- Ability to demonstrate authenticity in relating to others.
- Demonstrates eagerness to continuously learn and acquire necessary technical knowledge.
- Effective and efficient use of computers in the working environment.
- Competence in collecting, consolidating and correctly using relevant data; recognizing important information.
- Develops and maintains effective relationships with others to encourage and support communication and teamwork.
- The ability to identify problems and issues of varying complexities and find effective solutions.
- Effective planning and organizing skills.
- Follows through to ensure that quality and productivity standards are met.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to use strategic awareness to put things in context and to think broadly.
- Equivalent combination of education, skills, and experience.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required.
Working Conditions:
This role operates in a professional office environment and is subject to prolonged periods of sitting or standing at a desk and working on a computer. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines and may need to be able to lift up to 10 pounds at times. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Information Technology staff members are eligible to work remotely 2 days per week, after 30 days of employment. Remote working days are not guaranteed and subject to change based on organizational needs.
Competencies:
Focus on Service - Employee demonstrates dedication to delivering service that meets or exceeds the needs and satisfaction of our members, retirees, employers, and fellow employees. Actions and decisions put the needs of the customer first. Establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and seeks feedback to use for improvement. Accountability - Takes personal responsibility for one’s work in both successes and failures. Shows commitment and dedication in one’s work. Follows through on all projects, goals, commitments made to others, and all other aspects of one’s work.
Consistently shows attention to quality, accuracy, and completeness of work activities. Uses failures as opportunity to learn and grow. Attends work and arrives as scheduled. Collaboration - Interacts with others in ways that demonstrate teamwork and cooperation. Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others at all levels of the organization to achieve goals and support ONE SERS. Acknowledges others’ contributions and considers their ideas without judgment. Focuses energy on working together to find solutions. Respect and Inclusivity - Able to work with many people with different backgrounds. Shows respect for individual differences, thoughts, and opinions of other team members and is supportive of new ideas and different perspectives shared by others. Seeks to understand through open communication and active listening. Adaptability - Able to adjust to new or changing assignments, processes, people, and environments and easily consider new approaches. Strives to find efficient and innovative ways to overcome challenges and improve current processes and work products. Takes action on opportunities to improve. Embraces change and feedback in order to be more effective, efficient, and best serve our members, retirees, employers, and fellow employees. Shows dedication to positive thinking and forward momentum when facing challenges.
Disclaimer: This job description is not meant to be all-inclusive and the position itself is subject to change.
SERS is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We recruit, hire, train, and promote without discrimination due to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, military leave or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. SERS is committed to ensuring all applicants can successfully submit an application for consideration. If you have a disability, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations to complete your application for employment, please call (614) 340-2255.
SERS does not accept unsolicited recruiter and agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with SERS.
99168.00 To 148752.00 (USD) Annually
