Information Security Director
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The Information Security Director leads enterprise IT security and privacy efforts, including policy design, security assessments, incident response, and compliance. The role works with IT, Legal, and other company groups to monitor infrastructure, evaluate applications and network devices, and promote security compliance. The posting seeks a candidate with at least three years of enterprise IT security experience and a bachelor's degree; an advanced degree and BPO contact center experience are preferred.
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Director, Information Security
The successful candidate for this position will be a highly motivated, proven self-starter with a thorough understanding of the diverse aspects of information security. The Director of IT Security is responsible for the following:
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Comprehend and enforce applicable laws, regulations and compliance relating to IT security and privacy, working closely with the Legal
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Design and implementation of security policy and procedures
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Work directly with others in the IT department to maintain and proactively monitor core infrastructure components, including products from Cisco, Oracle, MS Windows, and servers running versions of Linux/Unix operating systems
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Lead security assessments of systems, applications and networks in a complex IT environment
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Make relevant recommendations for products and procedures to maintain and improve IT security
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Lead security incident response
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Work in the evaluation of current and future applications and network devices
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Handling sensitive, confidential data
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Act as liaison with entire company to promote, educate, and ensure compliance of IT security
Requirements:
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Three years professional experience designing, implementing and managing enterprise IT security
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Thorough understanding of IT security and privacy laws, regulations and compliance, including forensics, SOX, PCI and HIPAA. SAS70, eDiscovery or COBIT/ISO experience highly desirable.
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Perform or work with others to execute security assessments of technical environments
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Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and speech, as well as being able to prepare and present IT related material to a wide variety of audiences, including non-technical executives and management and on occasion, to large groups
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Successful project management experience
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Understanding of concepts relating to Identity Management
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Ability to coordinate incident response with many internal and external organizations including IT, legal, internal audit, operations, executive management and local and federal authorities as needed
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Experience developing, reviewing, administering, and implementing security policies
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B.A. or B.S required, advanced degree preferred
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Experience within the outsourced (BPO) Contact Center Experience would be ideal
CERTIFICATIONS: Security certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP(ISC2)), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Global Information Assurance Certification, GIAC Information Security Officer (GISO), and/or GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC).
Title: Information Security Director
Location: TX-Austin
Requisition ID: 04FKG
How this job compares
Set against the 1,227 open Information Security jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$130–203K/yr43 salary ranges
- US median$30/hr42 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 81 open Information Security jobs in Texas and 1,227 across the US. 16% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- EY8 open
- Akamai Technologies, Inc.4 open
- SonarSource4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Information Security postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 1,028 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 277 of the 1,227 open Information Security jobs (23%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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