Cybersecurity Engineer

Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associate's degree in cybersecurity with 1+ year experience in cybersecurity or IT, or Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity
  • Experience securing operating systems, networks, and applications at the enterprise level
  • Preferred cybersecurity certifications
  • Ability to perform vulnerability assessments and remediation
  • Strong communication skills for educating stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Plan and implement changes to the college's information security infrastructure
  • Perform vulnerability scans and assist with remediating identified issues
  • Conduct risk assessments and support remediation efforts
  • Investigate security anomalies and respond to reported issues
  • Develop and enforce information security policies and procedures
  • Perform security analysis to support institutional business processes
  • Train the college community on security policies and procedures

Benefits

  • Full-time position with a focus on cybersecurity in an educational environment
  • Opportunity to impact and enhance college-wide security measures
  • Professional development through interaction with various stakeholders
  • Engagement with academic cybersecurity program support and training
  • Exposure to diverse cybersecurity challenges in a campus setting
Full Job Description
Salary: $71,029.00 - $117,400.00 Annually
Location : Catonsville, MD
Job Type: Full-Time Staff
Job Number: 2026-051
Division: Administrative Services
Department: Information Technology
Opening Date: 09/23/2026

Class Description

The purpose of this class is to perform administrative and technical work in securing and support of the College's computing and/or network infrastructure.
Minimum Requirements

Associates degree in cybersecurity with a minimum of one-year experience in cybersecurity or information technology or a Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity. Experience with securing operating systems, networks, and various applications at an enterprise level required. Cybersecurity certifications preferred.

Compensation within the posted range is determined by a candidate's education level and/or years of experience in the field. Generally, employees are hired in the lower third of the scale.
Class Specific Essential Duties
  1. Provide planning and implementation of additions, deletions, and major modifications to the college wide information security infrastructure.
  2. Perform vulnerability scans of college systems, review vulnerability scan reports, and assist the appropriate stakeholders with remediating vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
  3. Conduct security risk assessments and assist with remediation activities.
  4. Investigate and respond to security anomalies discovered during system security logs reviews or reported by college stakeholders.
  5. Assist with the development and enforcement of college wide information security policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines.
  6. Perform security analysis to secure the business processes of the institution while meeting faculty, student, and administrative needs.
  7. Assist the College community in identifying and remediating college security policy violations.


Essential Job Duties are intended to be examples of duties and are not intended to be all inclusive. There will be other duties as assigned.

Position Specific Essential Duties
  1. Perform periodic risk assessments of data systems and business processes, identify vulnerabilities, determine acceptable levels of risk, and identify ways to reduce those risks.
  2. Respond to security incidents, perform forensic investigations, and coordinate incident resolution and training with end users.
  3. Install, configure, and maintain Access Control Lists (ACLs), firewalls, and various security appliances to ensure institutional data security.
  4. Review, test, and recommend new security enhancements to protect, and monitor college business processes both on premise and in cloud hosted solutions.
  5. Communicate with and provide training for the College community on current network and information security processes and procedures.
  6. Assist with the implementation of security measures to protect the College's computer systems, networks, and data.
  7. Provide technical support for the college's academic cybersecurity program.


Essential Job Duties are intended to be examples of duties and are not intended to be all inclusive. There will be other duties as assigned.

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Do you have a Associates degree in cybersecurity with a minimum of one-year experience in cybersecurity or information technology or a Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity?Yes/NoDegree Earned
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Do you have experience with securing operating systems, networks, and various applications at an enterprise level?Provide example
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Do you have a Cybersecurity certification?Yes/NoProvide Detail
Required Question

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