Senior Threat Analyst

City of New York•New York City, NY

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) uses technology to improve opportunity, public safety, and government services across New York City. OTI’s Cyber Command protects City systems, including systems that deliver vital services, and supports more than 100 agencies and offices in protecting against, detecting, identifying, responding to, and recovering from cyber threats. The Senior Threat Analyst is part of a critical initiative to strengthen the City’s defenses against escalating and increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats. The role analyzes emerging threats and supports proactive measures to mitigate risks. It performs Threat Management functions in the City’s Security Operations Center (SOC), which operates 24/7/365, and works with Cyber Command teams, City agencies, vendors, and information-sharing partners.

Requirements

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 equivalent education and/or experience.

Responsibilities

Staff 24x7x365 coverage at the City’s Security Operations Center, augmenting full-time employee shift schedules across days, nights, weekends, and holidays.
Interface with OTI Cyber Command teams, 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, and correlate threat intelligence across logs collected by established security controls.
Produce routine SOC metrics and reports.
Maintain situation reports (SITREPS) and perform weekly quality control checks.
Work with the SOC Director on incident preparation, including continuously developing SOC playbooks and runbooks.
Handle special projects and initiatives as assigned.