The Role
Responsible for managing cybersecurity during a data center migration, prioritizing and remediating vulnerabilities, coordinating across environments, and maintaining communication with stakeholders.
Summary Generated by Built In
Senior Cybersecurity Manager
ROLE
We need an experienced Senior Cybersecurity Manager at the New York City Department of Social Services (DSS). DSS enhances the quality of life for all New Yorkers by providing temporary assistance to eligible individuals and families with social service and economic needs, supported by IT Services (ITS) which operates the critical technology infrastructure behind the agency’s programs. DSS is currently executing a large-scale Data Center Co-location and Migration Project to consolidate multiple data centers into a new facility at 11 MetroTech in Brooklyn, replacing end-of-life infrastructure and mitigating risk of service disruption to agency operations. In this role, you will ensure prompt identification and prioritization of IT/security service disruptions and alerts arising during the data center migration, coordinate across legacy, cloud, and DR environments leveraging Splunk, CrowdStrike, and Trellix, serve as POC for all infrastructure vulnerability findings, and create remediation workflows for systems related to the DC implementation. This is a full-time opportunity. We can offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.
RESPONSIBILITIES
REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS
LOCATION
CLIENT
WORK AUTHORIZATION
TRAVEL
WORK HOURS
EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFICATION
RELOCATION
COMPENSATION
ROLE
We need an experienced Senior Cybersecurity Manager at the New York City Department of Social Services (DSS). DSS enhances the quality of life for all New Yorkers by providing temporary assistance to eligible individuals and families with social service and economic needs, supported by IT Services (ITS) which operates the critical technology infrastructure behind the agency’s programs. DSS is currently executing a large-scale Data Center Co-location and Migration Project to consolidate multiple data centers into a new facility at 11 MetroTech in Brooklyn, replacing end-of-life infrastructure and mitigating risk of service disruption to agency operations. In this role, you will ensure prompt identification and prioritization of IT/security service disruptions and alerts arising during the data center migration, coordinate across legacy, cloud, and DR environments leveraging Splunk, CrowdStrike, and Trellix, serve as POC for all infrastructure vulnerability findings, and create remediation workflows for systems related to the DC implementation. This is a full-time opportunity. We can offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Objective: To ensure prompt identification and prioritization of IT/security service disruptions and alerts arising during the DSS Data Center migration from Brooklyn to a hybrid Cloud and NJ DR facility. Security triage in data center migration refers to the process of identifying, assessing, and responding to security incidents and vulnerabilities that arise throughout the various stages of a data center migration project.
- Scope: Analyze infrastructure Vulnerability service tickets related to the migration project for all new hardware / environments and locations.
- Tasks Breakdown:
- Maintain proactive communication with stakeholders including ITS, OTI, DSS Legal Affairs, and NYC Cyber Command.
- Coordinate across legacy, cloud, and DR environments, leveraging knowledge of SIEM (Splunk), EDR (CrowdStrike), and endpoint policy management (Trellix).
- POC for all infrastructure Vulnerability findings found for all locations and environments for the D/C move.
- Coordinate vulnerability remediation for new infrastructure and environments as part of D/C move.
- Create remediation workflows affecting systems and environments related to the DC implementation.
- Maintain structured management and communication for vulnerabilities related to the DC implementation.
- Document resolutions and practices for institutional knowledge and audit.
REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Rapid7 InsightVM, and ability to prioritize vulnerabilities based on exploitability, business impact, and criticality
- 5+ years of experience setting up remediation projects, running advanced queries, exporting data in Rapid7, and performing analysis in Excel using pivot-tables
- 5+ years of experience using CrowdStrike Falcon during incident response to identify malicious processes, lateral movement, and behavioural indicators across compromised endpoints
- 5+ years of experience using Trellix EDR and ePO to investigate alerts, correlate threat events, and reconstruct attack timelines during incident response
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with IT Service Management software including ServiceNow (creating tickets, searching, updating, attaching files, researching SLA, creating child-parent ticket pairs)
- 5+ years of experience using Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ES to investigate security incidents by correlating logs, alerts, and behavioural anomalies across diverse data sources
- 5+ years of strong foundational understanding of general IT concepts, with hands-on familiarity across Windows, Unix, and Linux server environments, core networking principles, virtualization technologies such as VMware, and exposure to enterprise platforms including Oracle and IBM systems
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field – preferred
LOCATION
- Brooklyn, NY
CLIENT
- NYC Department of Social Services
WORK AUTHORIZATION
- Must be legally entitled to work in the United States
TRAVEL
- No travel required.
WORK HOURS
- 8 hours per day. 1 unpaid hour for lunch
EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFICATION
- W2 Hourly
RELOCATION
- Not eligible for relocation benefits.
COMPENSATION
- Compensation Range: $74.18 - $98.90/hr commensurate on experience
- Benefits: Benefits package includes options for health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; 401k contribution options; paid sick time
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The Company
What We Do
West 4th Strategy provides rapid response technology services to civilian, defense, and homeland security customers. We build and mobilize dynamic teams of qualified technologists who embody competence, professionalism, and a commitment to results. We excel at moving fast to find the right people to get the job done. And the best part of our technology teams? They make the government’s mission their mission. Our teams work with a sense of purpose to power the government. West 4th Strategy. Our work defines us.
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