About New York City Cyber Command
NYC Cyber Command was created in 2017 by Executive Order to lead the City’s cyber defense efforts, working across more than 100 agencies and offices to prevent, detect, respond, and recover from cyber threats. NYC Cyber Command is committed to protecting NYC infrastructure and critical systems from malicious attacks through the use of the latest technologies, public-private partnerships, and regular training and exercises for City employees.
Job Description
Counter Threat Automation Engineers within NYC Cyber Command perform many critical functions within the Threat Management discipline. Chief among these functions is providing the key verticals of the Threat Management team with technical support via the development and deployment of key tools and platforms that enable the teams to function effectively. This role is explicitly for a developer with experience both in incident response and code development.
Responsibilities will include:
● Design and implement security solutions across multiple platforms.
● Integrate innovative and custom technology to improve data collection, detection, analysis, and monitoring efforts;
● Create well documented and clearly articulated code, process and services documentation;
● Assist during Incident Response by providing dynamic and rapid deployment of custom tooling and scripts;
● Analyze, mine, and correlate traffic and event logs to identify malicious or anomalous behavior;
● Create and define custom detection logic across all detection platforms using either the user interface or via available APIs;
● Develop scripts, tools and software that will promote and support the automation-orchestration platform;
● Understand REST and SOAP API usage and implementing solutions utilizing APIs from NYC3 utilized solutions;
● Perform special projects and initiatives as assigned.
Minimum Qualification Requirements
1. 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
2. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" above.
Preferred Skills
The preferred candidate should possess the following:
● Proficiency in Python, with knowledge of Flask web framework;
● Proficient in front-end technologies: Javascript, Vue.js, CSS3, and HTML5;
● Proficient in git version control and git life-cycle development;
● Understanding of cyber security incident response and willingness to assist in incident response duties;
● Excellent verbal and oral communication skills are required;
● A basic understanding of Agile development model;
● Understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable applications;
● Basic ability to code in Go will be a plus;
● Ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability,
authentication, non-repudiation);
● Experience working in a security environment and/or supporting security teams from a technical standpoint.
To Apply
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* Interested applicants with similar civil service titles who meet the preferred requirements should also submit a resume for consideration
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