Full Job Description
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Specialists serve the City of New York as a senior-level cybersecurity advisor and practitioner, whose expertise will guide the development, enhancement, and deployment of City-wide incident response policies and procedures. This team is the escalation point for high-profile cybersecurity incidents impacting City agencies. The CERT team engages in malware analysis, digital forensics, and campaign assessments; and harmonizes response activities among OTI- Cyber Command, City departments, and state, federal, and private partners. Specialists work alongside internal teams such as, but not limited to, cyber threat intelligence, counter-threat automation, urban technology, and data science teams to innovate detection, investigation, response, and remediation methods and capabilities.
Responsibilities include:
-Assist NYC agencies in improving cyber incident response;
-Design and participate in cyber tabletop exercises with City departments to identify capability gaps, procedural weaknesses, and critical infrastructure;
-Design, build and enhance cyber-incident detection tools and capabilities;
-Work with cyber intelligence teams to identify new cyber threats and campaigns and proactively deploy countermeasures;
-Serve as the escalation point for high-profile cybersecurity incidents;
-Prioritize incident response activities and coordinate response efforts among City departments and external partners;
-Investigate cybersecurity incidents through log, file, and malware analysis;
-Perform memory, network, and disk forensics;
-Devise appropriate remediation strategies and assist affected City agencies in containing, eradicating, and recovering from cybersecurity incidents;
-Develop post-incident action plans to improve Mean Time to Recover/Restore;
-Maintain knowledge of current cyber threat campaigns and tradecraft;
-Participate in on-call rotation;
-Handle special projects and initiatives as assigned.
HOURS/SHIFT
Day - Due to the necessary technical duties of this position in a 24/7 operation, candidate may be required to work various shifts such as weekends and/or nights/evenings.
WORK LOCATION
Brooklyn, NY
TO APPLY
* Interested applicants with other civil service titles who meet the preferred requirements should also submit a resume for consideration
Please go to www.cityjobs/jobs/search and search for Job ID #781696
SUBMISSION OF A RESUME IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INTERVIEW
APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OVERSIGHT APPROVAL
IT SECURITY SPECIALIST - 95622
Qualifications
A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to projects and policies required by the particular position; or,
Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" above.
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