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
The Senior Director of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is the senior manager of the platform and service delivery teams of New York City Cyber Command, working directly for the Deputy CISO for Security Sciences.
Responsibilities will include:
- Oversee the operation of key strategic defensive technologies including cloud-based data and responder environments on an on-call basis;
- Serve as a senior engineering management role that enables processes related to software delivery and production operations in a fast paced, collaborative work environment, focusing on building a high performing team and ensuing the performance and efficacy of NYC Cyber Command defensive technologies;
- Significantly impact the overall success of the organization by focusing on delivery automation, service level objectives and monitoring, capacity planning, technical problem management, developing strategic plans for DevOps throughout the organization and managing the resources assigned to the team.
Minimum Qualification Requirements for IT SECURITY SPECIALIST Civil Service Title
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.
CURRENT CITY EMPLOYEES WITH OTHER PERMANENT CIVIL SERVICE TITLES AND WHO PERFORM SIMILAR WORK ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY
Preferred Skills
The preferred candidate should possess the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems management, computer science, or equivalent experience;6+ years of DevOps or similar production / platform engineering experience, 1-2 of which in a public cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP);
- Excellent communications skills;
- Expertise in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment workflows;
- 2+ years experience managing engineering teams;
- Ability to achieve goals with minimal supervision; self-starter;
- Outstanding collaboration, team building and problem-solving skills;
- Experience in large enterprise security planning, design, configuration, installation, troubleshooting, integration, security performance monitoring, product maintenance, and security product configuration enhancements;
- Security and cloud certifications a plus (CISSP, CCSP, Google Compute, AWS, Azure, etc.);
- Knowledge of the following Google Compute Platform services or their Azure / AWS equivalents: GCP Networking, Dataflow, Bigquery, Cloud Pub/Sub;
- Working knowledge of Hashicorp’s Terraform Infrastructure as Code;
- May be required to be on call outside normal business hours to accommodate a 24/7 operation.