West 4th Strategy

Senior Cybersecurity Manager

Brooklyn, NY
Full Time
Experienced
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
  • 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
Share

Apply for this position

Required*
We've received your resume. Click here to update it.
Attach resume or Paste resume
Attach resume as .pdf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .txt, or .rtf (limit 5MB) or Paste resume

Paste your resume here or Attach resume file

Invitation for Job Applicants to Self-Identify as a U.S. Veteran
  • A “disabled veteran” is one of the following:
    • a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or
    • a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
  • A “recently separated veteran” means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
  • An “active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran” means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
  • An “Armed forces service medal veteran” means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.
Veteran status


Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability
Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form CC-305
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026
Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Please check one of the boxes below:

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.

You must enter your name and date
Human Check*