New York City Cyber Command (NYC3) is committed to protecting City systems that provide vital services to New Yorkers from cyber threats, and helping residents become safer in their digital lives. 

As the organization defending the largest municipality in the country, NYC3 is charged with directing citywide incident response, setting citywide cybersecurity policies and standards and working with city agencies to strengthen their cyber defenses.  

• Support the Cybersecurity Data Science team, led by the Cybersecurity Lead Data Scientist; 

• Analyze data in order to defend against cyber threats to the City; 

• Integral to the defense of the City’s information environment, and works directly with the NYC3 Architecture, Engineering, and Threat Management teams; 

• Design, build, implement, and operate systems that ingest, normalize, correlate, analyze, and present cybersecurity relevant data from across the City. 

1. A baccalaureate degree, from an accredited college including or supplemented by twenty-four (24) semester credits in cyber security, network security, computer science, computer programming, computer engineering, information technology, information science, information systems management, network administration, or a pertinent scientific, technical or related area;

or

2. A four-year high school diploma or its equivalent approved by a State’s department of education or a recognized accrediting organization and three years of satisfactory experience in any of the areas described in “1” above;

or

3. Education and/or experience equivalent to “1” or “2”, above. College education may be substituted for up to two years of the required experience in “2” above on the basis that sixty (60) semester credits from an accredited college is equated to one year of experience. In addition, twenty-four (24) credits from an accredited college or graduate school in cyber security, network security, computer science, computer programming, computer engineering, information technology, information science, information systems management, network administration, or a pertinent scientific, technical or related area; or a certificate of at least 625 hours in computer programming from an accredited technical school (post high school), may be substituted for one year of experience.

CANDIDATES WITH OTHER PERMANENT CIVIL SERVICE TITLES WITH THE CITY OF NEW YORK WHOSE FUNCTIONS CAN MATCH THE JOB DESCRIPTION ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

Preferred Skills 

The preferred candidate should possess the following:

• At least 1 year experience (including internships) analyzing large, high velocity, heterogeneous datasets; 

• Proficient in using cloud-based tools for ingesting, normalizing, analyzing, and presenting data for future engineering solutions and executive decision makers; 

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or information systems and have specializations in mathematics, number theory, applied cryptography, or statistics or relevant experience;

• Strong practical knowledge of data structures, Java, relational database design, and familiarity with system level and distributed programming;

• Familiarity with Unix scripting, Web development, and automated testing would be highly desirable, but not necessary.