IT Security Analyst

Salary : $32.75 - $43.39 Hourly

Location : 18500 Murdock Circle Port Charlotte 33948, FL

Job Type : Full-time

Job Number : 2025-00301

Department : INFORMATION TECHNOLGY

Opening Date : 09 / 04 / 2025

Closing Date : Continuous

FLSA : Exempt

Bargaining Unit : NB

General Summary & Essential Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

Performs responsible technical and analytical work to analyze, develop, and implement IT security strategies to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Charlotte County data, information systems, and IT infrastructure.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Develops, oversees, and maintains policies, procedures, and associated plans for system security administration and user system access based on industry-standard best practices.
• Coordinate and oversee the end-user cyber security awareness training and compliance program.
• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.
• Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within the network environment or enclave.
• Assesses need for any security reconfigurations (minor or significant); makes recommendations and executes them if approved.
• Conducts research on emerging products, services, protocols, and standards in support of security enhancement and development efforts.
• Performs assessments of systems and networks within the network environment or enclave and identifies where those systems / networks deviate from acceptable configurations, enclave policy, or local policy.
• Coordinates all security systems and their corresponding or associated software, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and anti-virus software; manages and ensures the security of databases and data transferred both internally and externally.
• Measures effectiveness of defense-in-depth architecture against known vulnerabilities.
• Develops cyber indicators to maintain awareness of the status of the highly dynamic operating environment.
• Oversees penetration testing of all systems to identify system vulnerabilities.
• Collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates cyber threat / warning assessments.
• Collaborates to identify access and collection gaps that can be satisfied through cyber collection and / or preparation activities.
• Keeps current with emerging security alerts and issues; downloads and tests new security software and / or technologies.
• Provides on-call support on a rotational basis.
• May travel onsite to various county facilities in performance of duties.
• Provides exceptional customer assistance, problem-solving, and / or complaint resolution by all forms of communication.

Min. Education, Licenses and Certifications

Education and Experience :

An equivalent combination of relevant training, education and experience :

Preferred : Cyber Security

Licenses and / or Certificates :

Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Supplemental Information

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Stooping, walking, sitting, pulling, lifting, grasping, hearing, seeing up close, seeing far away, kneeling, reaching, pushing, talking, standing, finger movement, repetitive motions, depth perception. Frequent lifting of up to 25 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work is performed in a relatively safe, and secure work environment.

RISK / SAFETY CONDITIONS

The position requires no exposure or risk related to physical and / or mental health and safety.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.

Charlotte County is an Affirmative Action / ADA / Veterans' Preference and Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, Minorities, and Persons

with Disabilities are Encouraged to Apply.

EMERGENCY RESPONSE / RECOVERY ACTIVITIES :

All County employees are required to work before, during, or after an emergency as needed. This may include temporarily being assigned to work and performing duties outside of the normal scope of their position, location and work schedule to fit the needs of the County and its citizens.

Charlotte County is an Affirmative Action, ADA and Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to applyAs a veterans' preference employer, certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of such service members and veterans, who claim and meet eligibility requirements of veterans' preference, receive preference and priority in employment and are encouraged to apply. In addition, certain servicemembers may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.

All positions with Charlotte County may be subject to drug testing in accordance with the Drug-Free Workplace Program and / or County policy.

Charlotte County Board of County Commissioners offers a comprehensive benefits package to regular full-time employees. Please click on the link below to view information about our benefits.