About New York City Cyber Command
New York City Cyber Command (NYC3) is committed to protecting City systems that provide vital services to New Yorkers from cyber threats, and helping residents become safer in their digital lives.
As the organization defending the largest municipality in the country, NYC3 is charged with directing citywide incident response, setting citywide cybersecurity policies and standards and working with city agencies to strengthen their cyber defenses.
About the Position
Under the direction of a Cyber Command manager, the Associate Cloud Reliability Engineers are responsible for making sure that security technologies are integrated, tested, operated, and configured to meet the objectives of NYC Cyber Command’s defensive efforts. This role is responsible for the operation of key strategic defensive technologies including cloud-based data and responder environments, perimeter defenses, Citywide email filtering technology, and endpoint protection.
Responsibilities include:
· Work closely with private sector partners and City Agencies to ensure the efficacy of NYC Cyber Command defense technologies;
· Seek to bring together business owners, incident responders, and other members of the Security Sciences team to creatively solve complex challenges with engineering solutions;
· Assist in the use of automation tools, configuration management solutions, DevOps principles, and data;
· Available on-call to address pressing issues affecting a wide variety of challenges, and are calm under pressure.
Minimum Qual Requirements
1. 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
2. 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 in “1” above;
or
3. Education and/or experience equivalent to “1” or “2”, above. College education may be substituted for up to two years of the required experience in “2” above 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.
Preferred Skills
The preferred candidate should possess the following:
· 1 year of experience, inclusive of internships and other personal experience;
· Familiarity with one or more of the following areas: Common networking protocols and services including TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, and LDAP
· Cloud templating and automation tools for deploying and managing infrastructure (Terraform, etc.)
· Troubleshooting workstation (Windows, Mac) and server (Windows, Linux) issues
· Scripting skills (Python, Bash, Powershell)
· Administering and automating UNIX/Linux operating systems;
· May be required to be on call outside normal business hours to accommodate a 24/7 operation.