Cyber Security Analyst

Cyber Security Analyst Level II to join the IT Services Division. Under the direction of the Executive Director Infrastructure, will assist with implementing cybersecurity policies, standards, directives, and guidelines that draws heavily from citywide cyber policies implemented by the City of New York for all agencies. The role defends against cybersecurity incidents and identifies, analyzes, communicates and contains incidents as they occur. This cybersecurity role requires excellent communication skills, creativity, strong technical background, and familiarity with traditional and emerging security technologies and practices. The activities of this role will be split between day-to-day operations and working on new and existing cybersecurity related projects.

• Under supervision, with latitude for independent initiative and decision making, assist DoTSS in liaising with the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) by ensuring any security threats are mitigated by DCWP in a timely manner
• With an effort to remain proactive and stay ahead of the issues, respond to alerts and events that could threaten the Agency's information technology security posture
• Characterize and analyze network traffic and server/cloud performance metrics to identify anomalous activity and potential threats
• Complete appropriate patching on various systems, including workstations, servers and network equipment such as switches, voice gateways and routers
• Analyze identified malicious activity to determine means, method, and details of exploitations against agency systems and applications
• Evaluate commercial software in conjunction with OTI for safe use by NYC DCWP
• Guide ITOPS in reimage/restore devices and equipment to previous known good states after an incident
• Validate, analyze, investigate and mitigate reported trouble tickets or incidents from OTI
• Follow up to ensure DCWP staff are taking and following Cyber Security Training
• Ensure new software (COTS, on-prem, cloud-based CRM) are being developed following citywide security standards and protocols passes through SDLC and security accreditation (from OTI)
• Follow up on incident reports and app scan reports to ensure that proper mitigation is taking place in timely manner
• Conduct network monitoring and intrusion detection analysis using various computer network defense tools, such as intrusion detection/prevention systems, firewalls and host-based security systems; review and adjust ACL as needed based on source/destination/port by requirement
• Conduct log-based and endpoint-based threat detection to detect and protect against threats coming from multiple sources
• Correlate activity across assets (endpoint, network, apps) and environments (on-premises, cloud) to identify patterns of anomalous or suspicious activity
• Support the creation of business continuity/disaster recovery plans, including conducting disaster recovery tests, publishing test results and making changes necessary to address deficiencies
• Research emerging threats and vulnerabilities to aid in the identification of incidents
• Provide users with incident response support, including mitigating actions to contain activity and facilitating forensic analysis when necessary
• Perform security standards testing against computers or IT equipment before implementation to ensure security standards are met
• Coordinate with OTI and ITOPS on providing IT inventory, performing DCWP security audits and coordinate comptroller and Criminal Justice Information Security (CJIS) directive audits

A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by twenty-four (24) semester credits in cyber security, network security, computer science, computer programming, computer engineering, information technology, information science, information systems management, network administration, or a pertinent scientific, technical or related area; or a four-year high school diploma or its equivalent approved by a State's department of education or a recognized accrediting organization and three years of satisfactory experience in any of the areas described above; or education and/or experience equivalent to the above. College education may be substituted for up to two years of the required experience on the basis that sixty (60) semester credits from an accredited college is equated to one year of experience. In addition, twenty-four (24) credits from an accredited college or graduate school in cyber security, network security, computer science, computer programming, computer engineering, information technology, information science, information systems management, network administration, or a pertinent scientific, technical or related area; or a certificate of at least 625 hours in computer programming from an accredited technical school (post high school), may be substituted for one year of experience.

• Experience in IT audit, enterprise risk management, penetration tester, red team/incident responder or as a junior security operations analyst
• Experience with regulatory compliance and information security management frameworks (such as International Organization for Standardization [ISO] 27000-1 or 27000-2, COBIT, National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] 800-53 or 800-171)
• Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one
• Ability to effectively influence others to modify their opinions, plans or behaviors
• Understanding of organizational mission, values, goals and consistent application of this knowledge
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
• Understanding of privilege access management for servers (preferred knowledge of Delinea/Centrify)
• Familiarity with CISA Binding Operational Directives
• Familiarity with Trellix/McAfee/CrowdStrike/Rapid7, and Azure