Application Security Specialist

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The mission of the New York City Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in New York City by working in partnership with the community to enforce the law preserve peace protect the people reduce fear and maintain order. The New York City Police Department strives to foster a safe and fair city through the strategic deployment of resources focusing on both crime prevention and addressing quality-of-life concerns while building lasting community relationships.

The New York City Police Department is seeking a highly skilled and motivated IT Security Specialist to join the Information Security Office of the NYPD Information Technology Bureau focusing on Application Security (AppSec). The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing the analysis design development implementation enhancement and maintenance of various software functions and systems. This role requires strong leadership skills to supervise teams and coordinate complex integrated software development projects in a large complex organization.

Duties will include but are not limited to:
1. Ensure application teams understand and follow policies standards configuration and operating procedures and guidelines regarding application development and application runtime security.
2. Ensure compliance with Citywide and agency security policies and standards.
3. Identifies probable system application exposures compromises problems or design flaws and escalates issues to Information Security management to limit serious security impacts.
4. Provide secure application development and development.
5. Analyze troubleshoot document and support an application security infrastructure to minimize application development performance and capacity.
6. Plan initiate and implement application security threat modeling during infrastructure architecture and/or design changes.
7. Offer support to application development network server database and storage teams regarding new technologies services and system requirements.
8. Provide security design assistance on new products and internally developed projects.
9. Define manage and monitor security compliance of application including procedures for detecting reporting and responding to computer security incidents.
10. Monitor industry development security standards and best practices.
11. Define manage and monitor data security confidentiality integrity and availability.
12. Plan initiate and implement application security threat modeling during infrastructure architecture and/or design changes.
13. Provide security design assistance on new products and internally developed projects.
14. Review and analyze design and/or accreditation documentation to ensure appropriate security controls are in place

WORK LOCATION:
1 Police Plaza New York NY 10038

TO APPLY:
Please visit: and search for Job ID #772564

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
In compliance with Federal Law all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

The City of New York offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance for the employee and his or her spouse or domestic partner and unemancipated children under age 26 union benefits such as dental and vision coverage paid annual leave and sick leave paid holidays a pension and optional savings and pre-tax programs such as Deferred Compensation IRA and a flexible spending account.

IT SECURITY SPECIALIST - 95622

Qualifications :

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

Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

Employment Type :

Full-time