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Job Summary/Basic Function:

The Cyberdome Lead will be the key platform engineer and architect to ensure core technologies are kept up to date and appropriately serving client needs. This role will also provide analyst / threat hunting mentoring and skill development with the undergraduate workers. Finally, the Cyberdome Lead, alongside the Cyberdome Manager, will act as coordinators of research requests of the Co-PIs and graduate assistants.

Department Overview:

Boise State University’s Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity is a leader of innovative cybersecurity research and advancement in Idaho and the region. We welcome and facilitates strategic partnerships with industry, higher education, business and government to improve cybersecurity for Idaho and the nation. The Institute also works to commercialize ground-breaking research and tools, and educate graduates to become the change-makers and forward-thinkers of the 21st century. Our focus is students. We are distinctive, nimble and responsive.

Level Scope:

Fully competent and productive professional contributor who applies acquired job skills, policies, and procedures to complete substantive assignments/projects/tasks of moderate scope and complexity. Works independently with general supervision; exercises judgment within defined guidelines and practices to determine appropriate action. May provide guidance and assistance to entry level professionals and/or support employees.

Essential Functions:

60% of Time the Cyberdome Lead must:

Establish platform metrics and KPIs to drive quality and efficiency.
Manage engineering staff, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions.
Develop and maintain an educational and research environment where the knowledge and performance of the group are constantly advancing.
Perform staff appraisals.
Develop and mentor staff, ensuring training and development opportunities are maximized.
Build and maintain employee morale and motivation.
Oversees the platform engineering/operations of the Cyberdome environment, ensuring the platform is operating optimally and internal/external clients are receiving maximal quality of service.
Creates issue reports for platform performance.
Assists with the creation of report packages for internal/external clients.
Provides mentoring to student engineers to improve Cyberdome efficiency and readiness response.
Develops and delivers technology and process improvements for the Cyberdome in order to maintain operational readiness for incident response.

35% of Time the Cyberdome Lead must:

Provide support to other departmental events and activities

5% of Time the Cyberdome Lead must:

Perform other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

Experience in complex technology or public cloud environments.
Experience with developing and optimizing applications on cloud/Linux-based systems.
Good understanding of public cloud architectures.
Experience working with end-customers to ensure timeliness of deliverables are provided efficiently and effectively.
Experience in providing support for cybersecurity platforms and outcomes.
Highly Proficient in scripting languages (shell scripts and/or PowerShell) and regular expressions
Highly Proficient in integrating open-source cybersecurity technology platforms
Experience in understanding threat vectors and pragmatic methods of reducing risk
Experience with Security Information Event Management (SIEM) technology platforms, such as ElasticISIEM or others
Experience with vulnerability management platforms, host/network intrusion detection
Experience mentoring teams to accomplish established goals.
Strong communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
Experience monitoring and maintaining metrics and SLAs.
Experience working with customers in a service environment.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of experience with integrating computer / cybersecurity platforms and 3 years of experience in complex computational environments, or equivalent. BS or MS in technology field, with at least one cybersecurity industry certification (e.g. Sec+, SANS GIAC, SSCP, etc) or technical cybersecurity certification (e.g. Cisco, Palo Alto, etc).

Preferred Qualifications:

Previous experience with supervising interns

Salary and Benefits:

$71,406.00 -$75,000.00. Boise State University is committed to offering a benefits package that provides health and financial protection plans as well as resources to promote health and well-being. Our program provides flexibility so you can choose the benefits that are right for you and your family. Learn more about our benefit options at https://www.boisestate.edu/hrs/benefits/ .

Required Application Materials:

Resume and Cover letter

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