Night Shifts / Weekend Shifts (not including a mandatory unpaid meal break after 6 hours of work), 35 work hours per week.
Mandatory Skills:
Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered
Minimum 8 years of experience in Threat Management/SOC/Incident Response environment.
For this senior position, leadership skills are a must, including the ability to lead and mentor junior analysts, coordinate team activities, and manage SOC operations effectively.
Prior experience working in a SOC environment is mandatory. This includes familiarity with SOC operations, procedures, and tools such as SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) systems, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools.
Required Services:
Perform many critical functions within the Threat Management discipline including staffing 24x7x365 coverage at the City’s Security Operations Center (SOC) augmenting FTE shift schedules including days, nights, weekends, and holidays.
Interface with Cyber Command teams internally, with City agencies, vendors, and information-sharing partners.
Monitor City networks and security alerts for intrusion, attempted compromise, and anomalous behavior; apply mitigation techniques or escalation factors; correlate threat intelligence across various logs collected by established security controls.
Produce routine SOC metrics & reporting.
Maintain situation reports (SITREPS)
Perform weekly quality control checks.
Works closely with SOC Director on incident preparation including the continuous development of new SOC playbooks and runbooks.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
Knowledge of cybersecurity principles, practices, and procedures
Strong understanding of network and host technologies
Experience applying techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusion using IDS methods and technologies.
Experience with SIEM technologies, malware analysis and mitigation techniques
Apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation)
Interpret information collected by diagnostic network tools (Netflow, security event logs, IDS systems, etc.)
Ability to investigate and solve complex problems.
Excellent communication skills are crucial for effectively communicating security incidents, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including SOC Director and senior management.
Threat Hunting: Proactive threat hunting capabilities to identify and investigate potential security threats or anomalies within the environment before they escalate into incidents.
Incident Response: Experience in incident response procedures and methodologies,
including the ability to analyze security incidents, contain threats, mitigate risks, and recover from security breaches effectively and efficiently
- Locations
- Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States
- Experience
- 8+ years