Department: IT

Location: Hybrid (In State Candidates Only)

Minimum Salary: $99,545

Employment Type: Regular Full Time

Shift: 1st Shift

Scheduled Work Hours: 8:30am-5:00pm Monday - Friday, Evenings and weekends as needed

The Jel Sert Company marks a major milestone this year, 100 years of success, innovation, and industry leadership. The Jel Sert Company has focused on creating high-quality, high-value foods and beverages that help bring people together. Jel Sert is proud of being awarded the Great Place to Work certification, along with being recognized as a Best Workplace to Work in Chicago and Best Workplace to Work in Manufacturing and Production. We are currently looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team as a SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR. If you are looking for a work environment that encourages personal growth, responsibility, and a shared vision for creating incredible products that help create lasting memories, then Jel Sert wants you!

The Security Administrator will work under the direction of the Vice President of Information Technology to support and strengthen the organization’s cybersecurity posture across a multi-site manufacturing environment. This role will initially focus on identifying opportunities to enhance and maintain the organization’s existing security toolset, including Fortinet, CrowdStrike, Microsoft, ManageEngine, and Barracuda solutions.

Key responsibilities include updating and maintaining disaster recovery procedures and documentation, advancing end-user security training programs, and supporting the development and enhancement of security policies. Over time, the role will expand to include evaluating alternative technologies and processes, with a particular emphasis on securing emerging initiatives, including those involving artificial intelligence.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Investigative activities necessary to support organization’s Security Roadmap. Goal is to keep the company current vs. security needs by identifying necessary adjustments to the existing cyber security toolset.
• Maintenance of tool configurations to execute on the findings above.
• Regular, detailed review of alternative cyber security technologies to address endpoint, network, Cloud and disaster recovery positions.
• Proper response to cyber security incidents in real-time as needed – includes monitoring and forensics analysis across the toolset.
• Aid in design of security solutions related to production systems used on the plant floor.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of access control systems.
• Aid in the maintenance of vulnerability and patch management systems.
• Promote the secure, ethical, and responsible use of cyber security related technologies across the organization by providing online training programs, documentation/policies and end user classroom training opportunities.
• Assist with compliance initiatives, risk assessments, mitigation strategies and security audits.
• Occasional development of custom security related solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, the individual must maintain confidentiality, be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or similar discipline required.
• 3 + Years of general business experience performing evaluation, implementation and support of cyber security systems.
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience with the organization’s existing cyber security toolset (Fortinet, Crowdstrike, Microsoft, ManageEngine and Barracuda),
• A thorough understanding of enterprise level cyber security best practices – such as DLP, microsegmentation, zero-trust, disaster recovery, EDR, data replication strategies and least privilege.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITIES

• Ability to perform well within an on-call work environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Must be able to lead teams and manage investigative and implementation efforts.
• Ability to develop training materials and lead team and individual training events.
• Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Stay current with cyber security trends and development.
• Formal project management at the task level.
• Ability to productively manage multiple tasks concurrently.
• Perform forensics work using Crowdstrike and Fortinet reporting.
• Work from a customer service perspective.
• Working knowledge of PowerShell a plus.

BENEFITS & SALARY

The Jel Sert Company is committed to pay transparency and will provide further compensation information during the interview process. The minimum compensation for the Security Administrator is $99,545. Compensation is determined by a candidate’s experience, education, skills, training, and the internal equity within our organization. Actual compensation to be paid will be determined upon an offer. In addition to a competitive compensation package, regular full-time corporate employees of Jel Sert are eligible for our extensive benefits programs that can be reviewed here.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to-position.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Medium work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Hybrid role with the requirement to come into the office based upon business and departmental needs

FOOD SAFETY and QUALITY RESPONSIBILITIES

Follow applicable procedures and work instructions.

Back-up Redundant

IMPACT ON JEL SERT SUCCESS

End goal is to support efforts to maintain productive, scalable and secure cyber experience for the organization’s user community.