Senior Network Systems Analyst

Requisition No: 885164 

Agency: Military Affairs

Working Title: Senior Network Systems Analyst

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 62000486 

Salary: $89,000.00 

Posting Closing Date: 10/30/2026 

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WORK LOCATION: Tallahassee, Florida

ABOUT THE FLORIDA STATE GUARD (FSG)

The Florida State Guard serves Florida as a cornerstone of statewide crisis and emergency response. The mission of the Florida State Guard is to protect and preserve the life and property of the people of Florida from all threats to public safety through rapid deployment of ground, maritime, and air capabilities in partnership with state and local agencies. The Florida State Guard is a Division of the Florida Department of Military Affairs.

OUR BENEFITS INCLUDE:

• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Dental, Vision and Supplemental Insurance
• Retirement Benefits
• Vacation and Sick Leave
• Paid Holidays
• Opportunities for Career Advancement
• Tuition Waiver for Public College Courses
• Training Opportunities
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CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:

1. New employees of the Florida State Guard will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening.
2. New employees of the Florida State Guard are required to participate in a direct deposit/electronic transfer program. 
3. The Florida State Guard is paid on a monthly basis.
4. As a CANDIDATE, you may be required to provide documentation (i.e., High School Diploma or Equivalency, College Transcripts, ETC.) to verify meeting these Minimum Qualifications.

*NOTE*

To be considered for this position, application must be fully completed, your responses to qualifying questions for this position must be verifiable by documentation provided through the electronic application process and clearly stated within the employment history.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• A High School Diploma or equivalent; AND 
• Five (5) years of professional IT experience or any combination of non-professional or professional experience and college education of 60 semester hours or 90 quarter hours for each year in the above fields, can substitute on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.
• CompTIA Security+
• ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and/or Microsoft AZ-500.

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

• Master's Degree preferred in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads development and implementation processes for the agency’s IT systems and department.
• Oversees the creation, maintenance, and establishment of information security incident response policies, plans, and procedures, to include:
  • Developing and maintaining policies and procedures to ensure security requirements are incorporated into the change control process.
  • Establishing and maintaining policy and regulatory expectations for the protection of the physical operating environment for agency-owned or managed IT resources.
  • Establishing and maintaining a policy and procedure review process that facilitates continuous improvement to protection processes.
  • Manages the following duties required per Rule 60-GG-2:
  • Establishing an information security program that includes information security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines; an information security awareness program; an information security risk management process, including the comprehensive risk assessment required by section 282.318, F.S.; a Computer Security Incident Response Team; and a disaster recovery program that aligns with the agency’s Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plan. Proactively research latent security threats and recommend risk mitigation actions.
  • Performing information security investigations that could potentially impact the employment status of employees (career service, SES, SMS, contractors).
  • Performing information security investigations in conjunction with the Inspector General’s Office and law enforcement agencies.
• Oversees the deliverables for independent contractors and third-party employees to ensure compliance with the contract.
• Review and modify firewall rules iteratively to be more secure.
• Manage and configure the agency’s endpoint security solution.
• Respond to information security incidents and execute countermeasures.
• Serve as an operational information security subject matter expert to other sections within the division.
• Create, maintain, establish, and review application security standards and implementation plans and procedures as part of a secure software development lifecycle process.
• Recommend security remediation paths for legacy systems and applications.
• Review cloud migration strategies to ensure continued security compliance as applications and servers migrate to new environments.
• Review access requests and provide access control oversight.
• Maintain technical skillset to adapt to new technologies as they emerge, including researching and recommending security-focused training for themselves and others in the division.
• Ensure cryptographic standards are maintained in systems and applications.
• Maintain compliance with CJIS (criminal justice) systems and recommend technologies and procedures for on-premises and cloud-based CJIS infrastructure
• Evaluate desktop policies to ensure proper patching levels and security policies are maintained.
• Manage strategic tasks, including information security risk assessments, audits, and governance.
• Assist with non-routine and unforeseen administrative tasks as a result of incidents, activations, or direction of leadership.
• Research, analyze, draft, and implement cybersecurity policies and best practices which support the FSG.
• Monitor trends in order to identify needed changes to cybersecurity rules

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:  

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in latest technology for IT systems and management.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent analytical and management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Through understanding of IT and practical applications to support the agency’s goals.
• Skill in client relationship management
• Skill in research, analytics and creating reports from a large database.
• Skill in attention to detail and accuracy.
• Experience leading and supervising a team.
• Ability to maintain perspective during crisis-level incidents.
• Ability to assist with non-routine and unforeseen administrative tasks as a result of incidents, activations, or direction of leadership.
• Ability to deal tactfully and courteously with internal and external customers.
• Ability to maintain sensitive and confidential information.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to plan, organize, direct work, and evaluate results and alternative strategies.
• Ability to process large amounts of information from diverse sources and to integrate that information into a logical format for presentation in reports, documents, and other written materials.
• Ability to be resourceful, act independently, and take action in situations that lack clear direction.
• Ability to do short- and long-range program project planning.
• Ability to understand, formulate, and apply rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to assess budgetary needs.
• Ability to train others.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center View phone number on us.fitly.work). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.