IT Infrastructure Engineer

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The Infrastructure Engineer reports directly to the agency Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) responsible for protecting monitoring and enhancing the infrastructure and security posture of NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services information systems applications networks and cloud environments. The position combines advanced incident response digital forensics threat detection vulnerability management cybersecurity analytics governance risk and compliance (GRC) and security operations functions. The role serves as a technical escalation point for cybersecurity incidents supports enterprise security initiatives conducts cybersecurity assessments and audits develops policies and procedures and collaborates with City agencies vendors and stakeholders to improve cyber resilience and operational security.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and coordinate cybersecurity incident response digital forensics malware analysis threat hunting containment eradication recovery and post-incident activities.
- Monitor and analyze security events alerts logs and threat intelligence using SIEM endpoint protection cloud security and monitoring platforms.
- Perform vulnerability assessments risk analyses remediation tracking validation testing and reporting across infrastructure applications cloud environments and endpoints.
- Conduct cybersecurity audits control assessments risk reviews and compliance evaluations aligned with NIST CSF NIST SP 800-53 CIS Controls Zero Trust principles and Citywide cybersecurity policies.
- Develop and maintain cybersecurity policies standards procedures playbooks incident response plans and operational documentation.
- Support Identity and Access Management (IAM) operations including SSO MFA RBAC access reviews provisioning deprovisioning and privileged access governance.
- Analyze cybersecurity metrics trends vulnerabilities incidents and operational performance indicators; develop executive-level reports and recommendations.
- Partner with internal technology teams application owners vendors City agencies and external partners to improve cybersecurity capabilities and remediation outcomes.
- Support cloud security reviews application security assessments secure application onboarding and software security initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership mentoring and guidance to junior cybersecurity staff and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Assist with audit readiness evidence collection regulatory compliance activities and cybersecurity governance initiatives.
- Research emerging threats technologies attack techniques and industry best practices to strengthen defensive capabilities.
r reports directly to the agency Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) responsible for protecting monitoring and enhancing the infrastructure and security posture of NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services information systems applications networks and cloud environments. The position combines advanced incident response digital forensics threat detection vulnerability management cybersecurity analytics governance risk and compliance (GRC) and security operations functions. The role serves as a technical escalation point for cybersecurity incidents supports enterprise security initiatives conducts cybersecurity assessments and audits develops policies and procedures and collaborates with City agencies vendors and stakeholders to improve cyber resilience and operational security.

To Apply:

Please go to or for current NYC employees and search for Job ID # 784250.

No phone calls faxes or personal inquiries permitted. Only those candidates under consideration will be contacted.

IT INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER - 95714

Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science engineering or a related field and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to datacenter engineering and operations cloud engineering and operations complex IT infrastructure engineering; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to datacenter engineering and operations cloud engineering and operations complex IT infrastructure engineering; or

3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 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 :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time