Cyber Assurance Principal Engineer $162,084 – $203,866

City and County of San Francisco

The Cyber Architecture and Assurance team is one of four teams in the Office of Cybersecurity, focused on developing cybersecurity policies and standards, ensuring application and platform architectures meet OCS (Office of Cybersecurity) cybersecurity standards. We are active in empowering IT groups throughout the City and County in their risk mitigation practices, providing real-time assurance data and toolsets to IT professionals and management throughout the City and County enterprise. We are a service-oriented, dynamic and diverse group, who are firmly committed to our mission. The Office of Cybersecurity is helmed by the City Chief Information Officer (CCISO).

The Cyber Assurance Program project is moving into its compliance phase. As we continue to enhance the program, expand our visibility, gaining critical security intelligence, we are seeking to align and empower City IT stakeholders with cybersecurity best practices, actively remediating risk in accordance with established policies, automating many of the operational security practices needed to ensure the protection of City and County department and constituent data. One of the primary assurance tools our team utilizes is the Tanium platform. This position will work closely with our current principal engineer in maintaining and leveraging all aspects of the platform to realize OCS assurance program and project objectives.

We are seeking a highly motivated and technically experienced contributor to serve as a Tanium administrator, engineer, and thought leader to serve as partner to our lead Tanium engineer, and to assist in our mission of reducing cyber risk throughout the City and County. This position reports to the Office of Cybersecurity’s Cyber Defense Supervisor, who currently supervises the Office of Cybersecurity Cyber Defense and Cyber Architecture and Assurance teams. As a Principal Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining, promoting, training and leveraging our Tanium platform in service to Assurance program objectives and cybersecurity IT stakeholders throughout the City and County, among other duties described pertaining to our general mission.

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