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Listing Description

KPA exists to help companies keep their workforces safe and healthy. At the end of the day, we succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced the trauma of a workplace accident or an injury.   

How do we do it? By offering a unique combination of software, consulting, and training that helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important—their core business. 

Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row, KPA is made up of diverse, vibrant individuals working together for the greater good.  

We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for some like-minded people to help us do it. 

Position Description:
As a member of the Technology team, Information Security Manager will assist with the support of internal employees and play a crucial role in planning, implementing, maintaining, and securing high quality, highly scalable infrastructure for KPA’s Software as a Service (SaaS) products.  The ideal candidate will have strong troubleshooting skills, experience with security best practices and supporting multipledevelopment stacks, and function well within service level agreements and change management processes. 

Key Responsibilities
  • Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of security solutions such as AV/EDR, SIEM, DLP, O365 ATP, SOAR, IPS, Netflow, Vulnerability Management
  • Provide updates, optimization and maintenance of security systems and appliances to ensure maximum availability
  • Conduct incident response and event analysis using defined playbooks
  • Interface with members across IT to deploy security solutions and configure secure system configurations
  • Perform basic investigative searches and reporting using LogDNA or similar tool
  • Proactively assess areas of potential risk or vulnerability and deliver recommendations to the management team
  • Assist in applying solutions and controls to meet security compliance requirements
  • Engage third-party vendors for support and best practices of security solutions
  • Maintain security runbooks, policies, asset inventory, network diagrams, and contact lists
  • Assist the IT team with helpdesk tickets within established Service Level Agreements (SLA) and serve as an escalation point for team members

  • Required Skills and Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or IT related discipline or equivalent work experience
  • CompTIA Security+, SANS, GIAC, Offensive Security, or CISSP certifications preferred
  • Generally 3+ years of professional experience in Information Technology roles such as workstation/server administration, help desk, network support, application support
  • Generally 1+ years of professional experience in Cloud Hosting (IaaS / PaaS); Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services preferred, general database technologies, and Microsoft Office 365
  • Strong competency with security incident response and/or forensics
  • Experience in Linux and Windows system administration, troubleshooting, and secure configuration
  • Experience with network security devices such as firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, web application firewalls, Wireless Intrusion Prevention, Vulnerability Management and SIEM tools
  • Knowledge of security architecture, security policies and procedures, and best practices
  • Knowledge of system, application, and network security attacks and mitigation techniques
  • Knowledge of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols
  • Able to multitask, prioritize, and track time efficiently
  • Desire to learn and continually improve self and others though knowledge sharing
  • Work ethic that corresponds with KPA’s core values: Integrity, Helpful, Excellence, Agile, Respectful, and Teamwork

  • Compensation
  • Annual Salary Between $110k-$140k
  • Annual Bonus up to 10%
  • KPA Office/Event Attendance and COVID-19 Vaccination Policy

    Daily office attendance is currently optional for all employees. Each office will be open for those seeking the opportunity to return to the office. Team meetings and events will be held in both KPA Offices and outside of KPA Offices where employee attendance will be expected.

    For all KPA office sites, events and meetings, any employee attending, even temporarily, must be fully vaccinated with at least fourteen (14) days following their final vaccine. The final vaccine is defined as a second dose for Pfizer or Moderna, or the first dose of Johnson and Johnson.

    About KPA

    For over 30 years, KPA has helped 10,000+ clients achieve regulatory compliance, maintain a safe workplace, and save money. 

    Business Nuts and Bolts 

    Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), and Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. KPA solutions help clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems across their entire enterprise. The combination of KPA's software, consulting services, and award-winning training content helps organizations minimize risk so they can focus on what's important—their core business.  
    KPA’s majority investor is a tier-one private equity firm, Providence Equity Partners, which provides -capital and expertise to accelerate growth organically and through additional acquisitions. We’re now in an exciting time of accelerated growth with the promotion of our SaaS solutions. 

    Honoring Our Experiences, Building Mutual Respect 

    At KPA, we strive to build an environment that respects our talented colleagues’ individual experiences and mutual respect for our customers and partners regardless of color, religion, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. We aim to make meaningful contributions to celebrate our differences and learn from each other, uniting in an open and accepting culture that acknowledges everyone’s physical, workplace safety, and psychological safety.  

    We are passionate about what we do, how we do and why we do it. Our culture is driven by the KPA core values – Integrity, Helpful, Excellence, Agile, Respectful, and Teamwork. Success will be determined by the capabilities, energy and character of the people we bring into our organization and the performance they achieve.

    KPA, with headquarters in Colorado and teammates throughout the United Sates, is recognized as one of Colorado's Best Places to Work and Best Midsize Places to Work by Built In Colorado for 2022.  

    “To be ranked so highly in Built In’s Best Places to Work Awards is a recognition of KPA’s dedication to creating a team of outstanding professionals and our efforts to create a positive and safe workplace culture for everyone,” said Chris Fanning, KPA President and CEO. “I believe we’ve developed a high caliber organization comprised of passionate people who are experts in their respective fields and deliver great value to our customers.”
     
    As a growing company KPA values its employees by supporting them with a full benefits package including:
    - Medical (both PPO and HDHP plans available)
    - Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account (dependent on medical plan)
    - Dental
    - Vision
    - Paid Time Off increasing with tenure
    - Paid Holidays and floating holidays
    - 401(k) match with immediate vesting
    - No-cost Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
    - Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
    - Employee Assistance Program
    - Telehealth
    - Pet Insurance

    KPA is committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation, to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, religious dress/grooming, color, ethnicity, sex (including sex stereotyping), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, creed, uniform service member status, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, breast-feeding and/or pregnancy-related conditions, age, protected medical condition, leave status, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristics, or any other legally-protected status in accordance with the requirements of all federal, state and local laws. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

    If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hr@kpa.io.


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