Sr. Director of IT and Security

Description

About Us: 

eSimplicity is modern digital services company that work across government, partnering with our clients to improve the lives and ensure the security of all Americans—from soldiers and veteran to kids and the elderly, and defend national interests on the battlefield. Our engineers, designers and strategist cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that equip Federal agencies with solutions to courageously transform today for a better tomorrow for all Americans.  

eSimplicity is seeking a Director of IT and Security who is responsible for leading eSimplicity’s Security strategy on Corporate and Programs while also responsible for ensuring the success of the Corporate IT Operations team (GCC and Unclassified Environments) strategy, roadmap and operations. Champions and may lead implementing security tools, security tool usage, ensuring tools remain compliant and configured properly, setting program policy best practices all the while ensuring a successful program ATO across all eSimplicity programs. The Director of IT and Security provides oversight and is the subject matter expert to lower-level Security personnel. The Director of IT and Security is responsible for ensuring Corporate and IT Operation systems and procedures safeguard internal information systems, networks, databases, and Web-based assets while meeting high levels of community (employee). satisfaction. 

Responsibilities: 

• Leads the corporate IT Operations and Security day-to-day vision, roadmap, and strategies and encourages strong employee satisfaction with IT services. Successfully delivers strategic IT transformation across eSimplicity. 
• Leads the Security Operations Best Practices and meets with security personnel across eSimplicity programs to ensure consistent corporate-to-program security visionary leadership. 
• Collaborates with Enterprise Business Operations Team and efforts; serving as the IT solutions leader to translate business needs into applicable, implemented and supported IT solutions through the IT Operations team. 
• May lead/ensure or conduct vulnerability assessments and (proactively) monitors systems, networks, databases and Web-based assets for potential system breaches. Recommends and takes the lead on implementing changes to enhance security systems and prevent unauthorized access.  
• Responds or leads teams that address and respond to day-to-day corporate IT activities and alerts from information technology tools. Reports, investigates, and resolves higher level security/system incidents.   
• Responds or leads teams to respond to security tool outages, degradations in service, tune security rules and alerts, and setup/maintain security tool dashboards and reporting.  
• Research and strategize security trends, new methods, and techniques used in unauthorized access of data in order to preemptively eliminate the possibility of system breach. Ensures compliance with regulations and privacy laws.  
• Educates and communicates security requirements and procedures to all users and new employees.  
• Encourages and enables program strategy for continuous security practice and designs all security and privacy policies across an entire large-scale program.  
• Ensures (and engages with other Security SME’s) a continuous security training curricula and culture is used across the eSimplicity corporate and programs to elevate a security mindset across the team.  
• Applies iterative IT and security automation to all company aspects increasing overall security posture, and IT efficiency iteratively and never accepts the status quo.  
• Responsible for company Security and Privacy strategies, including CMMC, across all teams. Ensures a consistent approach and management across the program.  
• Leads/Coaches our corporate IT and security staff and security best practices. Leads security practices with a vision be it for business development, client facing, or corporate needs.   
• Leads corporate IT project planning initiatives with an emphasis on employee satisfaction.  
• Leader may support business development activities, technical challenges and contribute to technical business development strategies. 
• Advances automation and AI to bring efficiencies to all areas of responsibility and throughout their organization. 
• Other duties as assigned. 

Requirements

Required Qualifications:  

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline. With a minimum of ten years of general information technology experience and at least four years of specialized experience, a degree is not required.  
• Significant track history demonstrating successful