Data Engineer

  • $52,700.00 - $75,000.00/year
  • About New York City Cyber Command
    Mission. NYC Cyber Command leads the City’s cyber defense efforts, working across more than 100 agencies and offices to prevent, detect, respond, and recover from cyber threats. NYC3 protects NYC infrastructure and critical systems from malicious attacks and safeguards the data, devices, and services of the City. 
     
    Culture. Foremost, we serve the people of the City of New York, so earning - and keeping - their trust is paramount. To deserve that trust, we relentlessly focus on facts, provide sound judgment, and maintain a healthy culture. We pride ourselves on having a respectful and inclusive workplace built on kindness, honest intellectual debate, and excellent work. 

    Job Description
    • Support the Cybersecurity Data Science team, led by the Cybersecurity Lead Data Scientist;
    • Analyze data in order to defend against cyber threats to the City;
    • Integral to the defense of the City’s information environment, and works directly with the NYC3 Architecture, Engineering, and Threat Management teams;
    • Design, build, implement, and operate systems that ingest, normalize, correlate, analyze, and present cybersecurity relevant data from across the City.

    Minimum Qualifications for Cyber Security Analyst Civil Service Title
    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.

    CANDIDATES WITH OTHER PERMANENT CIVIL SERVICE TITLES WHOSE FUNCTIONS CAN MATCH THE JOB DESCRIPTION ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

    Preferred Skills 
    The preferred candidate should possess the following:
    • At least 1 year experience (including internships) analyzing large, high velocity, heterogeneous datasets; 
    • Proficient in using cloud-based tools for ingesting, normalizing, analyzing, and presenting data for future engineering solutions and executive decision makers; 
    • A bachelor’s degree in computer science or information systems and have specializations in mathematics, number theory, applied cryptography, or statistics or relevant experience;
    • Strong practical knowledge of data structures, Java, relational database design, and familiarity with system level and distributed programming;
    • Familiarity with Unix scripting, Web development, and automated testing would be highly desirable, but not necessary. 

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