The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Network Engineer III to join their Cybersecurity team. This senior level technical position plays a critical role in supporting and securing the City’s enterprise IT environment, focusing on network defense and infrastructure resilience.
Responsibilities:
- Diagnose and resolve complex cybersecurity and network issues
- Investigate and remediate web browsing threats, malware infections, and intrusion attempts
- Apply analytical reasoning to balance customer needs, operational realities, and technical constraints
- Design, specify, and implement new cybersecurity hardware, software, and services
- Manage and maintain firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), web content filtering, email protection, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms
- Monitor, analyze, and fine-tune security infrastructure for performance, resilience, and compliance
- Collaborate with cross departmental teams to deliver secure and scalable technological solutions
- Contribute security expertise to technology initiatives, from planning through implementation and support
- Communicate complex technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Produce accurate and concise documentation, memos, reports, and user guides
- Deliver outstanding customer service to City agencies and staff, ensuring timely and effective support
- Update and maintain technical documentation and automated work management systems
- Perform other cybersecurity functions as assigned by the Chief Information Security Officer
Requirements:
- High School graduate or equivalent
- Specific vocational, administrative, or technical knowledge obtainable through six months to one year of advanced study or training past the high school level
- Three years of work experience in an Information Technology related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Proficient with server hardware, Microsoft Server OS, and major Linux distributions (Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.)
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Visio)
- Working knowledge of vulnerability management and offensive security principles
- Hands on experience with cybersecurity incident handling, digital forensics, and full disk encryption
- Support, investigate and validate the implementation of security policies such as Conditional Access, Insider-Risk Management, DSPM for AI, Data Loss Prevention Information Protection, and endpoint/server security compliance
- Bachelor's degree with coursework in Cybersecurity, Information Assurance or a related discipline
- A minimum of 3 years of IT experience specializing in IT security technologies or information assurance
- CompTIA Security+, ISC2, GSEC and/or other IT security certifications