Job Description

Work Schedule

This is a full-time position scheduled to work Monday through Friday, with core hours between the hours of 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Applicants hired into this position will work hybrid coming onsite regularly at various UW Health locations. Hours and hybrid work may vary based on the operational needs of the department.

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Join the #1 hospital in Wisconsin!

We are seeking a Systems Security Manager who can bring calm, clarity, and decisive leadership when the stakes are high. This is an opportunity to lead a talented cybersecurity team, navigate complex incidents, and make UW Health stronger and more resilient with every challenge.

You’ll thrive in this role if you can:

• Lead through a crisis, establishing command, priorities, ownership, and direction.
• Make smart, risk-based decisions with incomplete information while balancing security, operations, and patient care.
• Bring technical credibility across incident response, forensics, identity, endpoint, cloud, network, detection, and threat response.
• Communicate with confidence and clarity, translating complex cyber risks into what leaders and stakeholders need to know.
• Build and develop strong teams, creating accountability and reducing reliance on individual heroics.
• Operate with urgency and discipline, strengthening playbooks, escalation processes, exercises, and after-action reviews.
• Turn incidents into improvement, using lessons learned to strengthen controls, processes, detection, and preparedness.
• Build strong partnerships across technical, operational, clinical, Legal, Privacy, and Communications teams.
• Be a thoughtful financial steward, making smart investments while identifying opportunities to reduce unnecessary spend.

If you’re the kind of leader people want in the room when things get complicated, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree Required

• Four (4) years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree in addition to experience below
• Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree in Healthcare, Information Technology, Business, or related field Preferred

Work Experience

• 3 years of experience in planning and implementing mid to large scale security or technical projects Required
• 3 years of supervisory or management experience Required
• Extensive project management experience Preferred
• 5 years of supervisory or management experience Preferred
• Experience developing and supporting applications deployed in a 24x7 healthcare setting Preferred

Licenses & Certifications

• CISSP Preferred
• Other security and/or technical certifications Preferred

Our Commitment to Social Impact and Belonging

UW Health is committed to fostering a workplace that creates belonging for everyone and is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. Our respect for people shines through patient care interactions and our daily work practices as we work to embrace the knowledge, unique perspectives and qualities each employee and faculty member brings to work each day. It is the policy of UW Health to provide equal opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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