Information Security Engineer

Title: Information Security Engineer #00054

State Role Title: Info Technology Specialist III

Hiring Range: up to $130,000

Pay Band: 6

Agency: Department of Elections

Location: Department of Elections

Agency Website:

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Information Security Engineer is responsible for the technical execution of information security activities within ELECT systems. The Information Security Engineer ensures ELECT systems maintain confidentiality, integrity and availability for all users. The Information Security Engineer, under the direction of the Information Security Officer, ensures ELECT systems meet federal, Commonwealth of Virginia and agency security standards. The position will work with various ELECT teams and security staff of the Commonwealth of Virginia to ensure security requirements are included and implemented in SDLC activities and infrastructure operations.

The Department of Elections promotes and supports accurate, fair, open and secure elections for the citizens of the Commonwealth. ELECT ensures the proper administration of election laws, campaign finance disclosure compliance, and voter registration processes in the state by promulgating rules, regulations, issuing instructions, and providing information to local Electoral Boards and general registrars.

The Department of Elections envisions a highly modern, efficient and professional electoral process that is trustworthy and accountable at all levels and engages Virginia's diverse citizenry in the most fundamental right in a democratic society: the right to vote.

Minimum Qualifications

• Extensive hands on experience in Emerging Threat Management
• Extensive knowledge of current and emerging information technologies and security tools used to perform information security functions.
• Secure Software development Lifecycle
• Strong customer focus - able to meet the demands of internal and external customers.
• Flexible and adaptable - capable of changing direction where required and showing flexibility to meet new demands and of adapting to a fast-moving technology landscape.
• Experience in forming business partnerships that help drive the information security strategy forward.
• Ability to communicate to senior executives and elected officials both orally and in written correspondence
• Demonstrated ability to provide strategic information technology (IT) advice to executive stakeholders and be able to provide leadership and guidance in the delivery of multiple complex projects.
• Demonstrated ability to design secure solutions and apply appropriate Defense-in-Depth security controls for on premise, hybrid and cloud solutions.
• Experience in strategic/long term thinking.

Extensive knowledge in the following:

• How Emerging Threats can introduce Risks
• Information Security Programs.
• Computers, applications, and electronics.
• Security Frameworks and threat environments.
• Cybersecurity core and privacy principles.

Other skills and abilities include:

• Critical thinking.
• Active listening.
• Judgment and decision making.
• Complex problem solving.
• Oral and written comprehension.
• Work effectively as a member of a team and exercise good interpersonal skills.

Additional Considerations

Experience in the following areas is a plus:

• Server Administration
• Network Administration
• Disaster Recovery
• Business Continuity
• Procurement and budgeting
• Business Intelligence/Data management
• Voting systems and pollbook equipment

Familiarity with:

• Data transformation and movement
• System analysis and design, networking, firewalls, servers, and appliances
• NIST or VITA Security Standards, processes, and procedures

Any equivalent combination of experience, education, or training to meet the experience and education qualifications.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to "Your Application" in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

State employees who have been affected by Policy 1.3 Layoff and possess a valid Interagency Placement Screening Form (Yellow Card) or a Preferential Hiring Form (Blue Card) must submit the card BEFORE the closing date for this position. The card may be scanned and attached to the application or faxed to View phone number on click.appcast.io. Please include your name and the position number on the fax cover sheet. AMERICORPS, PEACE CORPS, AND OTHER NATIONAL SERVICE ALUMNI ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

Reasonable accommodations are available to individuals with disabilities during the application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act. Please call View phone number on click.appcast.io for assistance.

All applicants are subject to a background investigation. The investigation may include: fingerprint checks (State Police, FBI); local agency checks; employment verification; verification of education (relevant to employment); credit checks; and other checks requested by the hiring authority.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Contact Information

Name: Kimberly Crutchfield

Phone: View phone number on click.appcast.io

Email: View email address on click.appcast.io

In support of the Commonwealth's commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at View phone number on click.appcast.io.

Note : Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.

Each agency within the Commonwealth of Virginia is dedicated to recruiting, supporting, and maintaining a competent and diverse work force. Equal Opportunity Employer