Cyber Security Analyst, Level 2

City of New York; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

City of New York is seeking an Information Security Analyst to support day-to-day security operations by monitoring alerts, investigating threats, and protecting city systems, networks, and data. This role covers access provisioning, log analysis, vulnerability reviews, and incident response for the pension platform.

Responsibilities include updating playbooks, policies, and dashboards, supporting risk assessments, and promoting security awareness across agencies.

Qualifications

• A baccalaureate degree with 24 credits in cyber security or related fields.
• Three years of related experience with a high school diploma.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience as described above, including cyber security credits or programming cert.

Responsibilities

• Information and Cyber Security: monitor and fine-tune security tools, understand networking, and communicate clearly.
• Business Continuity: assist in developing and testing the Business Continuity Plan and conducting tabletop exercises.
• Enterprise Risk Management: help identify and report security risks and support risk mitigation efforts.

Skills

Networking concepts

Applications & OS

Cybersecurity concepts

Security tools familiarity

Security certifications

Communication skills

Procedural adherence

Education

Bachelor's degree with 24 cyber security credits

High school diploma + 3 years related experience

Education/experience equivalent with 60 college credits + 24 cyber security credits or 625-hour programming cert

Job description

Job Description

CANDIDATES MUST BE PERMANENT IN THE CYBER SECURITY ANALYST CIVIL SERVICE TITLE OR HAVE A COMPARABLE CIVIL SERVICE TITLE TO APPLY The Information Security Analyst supports day-to-day security operations by monitoring alerts, investigating potential threats, and helping protect systems, networks, and data. This role will support many functions of the Information Security Program which includes, access provisioning, log analysis for fraud mitigation, security accreditations of new products and services, vulnerability reviews and follow up remediation of vulnerabilities associated to our new pension platform, reviews of indicators or compromise to be applied to NYCERS security controls for awareness, monitoring and incident response of our SIEM and security tools for suspicious activity, triage alerts and elevate incidents to senior analysts, support phishing analysis and malware investigations, support phishing simulations and user awareness campaigns, assist with security reports and dashboards, help update playbooks, policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines, participate in basic risk assessments, and promote security best practices, across the agency. CYBER SECURITY ANALYST - 13633

Key Responsibilities

• Information and Cyber Security: Understanding of networking, familiarity with applications and operating systems, knowledge of cyber security concepts, and willingness to manage, fine tune, and optimize security tools, such as SIEM, Endpoint Detection, Fraud mitigation tools, Intrusion Detection, etc. (training provided). Additional skills include possessing or willing to obtain a security certification (CompTIA Security+, Google Cybersecurity professional, CISSP, etc.), detail oriented, good written and oral communications, comfortable interaction with agency colleagues, ability to follow procedures and ask questions.
• Business Continuity: The Information Security Analyst will play a critical role in strengthening organizational resilience by leading the development, support, and testing of the comprehensive Business Continuity Plan (BCP). This includes conducting regular Business Impact Analyses (BIA) to establish Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), maintaining up-to-date recovery documentation, and providing continuity training across business units. The candidate will design and facilitate annual tabletop exercises simulating cyberattacks or system outages, document the results, and track remediation actions to close identified gaps.
• Enterprise Risk Management: Additionally, this role will directly assist with the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) program by identifying, analyzing, and cataloging security risks within the central corporate risk register. The analyst will partner with various agency divisions and the head of Enterprise Risk Management to develop risk mitigation strategies, monitor key risk indicators (KRIs), and prepare detailed risk profile reports and dashboards for senior leadership.

Qualifications

1. 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. 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. 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.

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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.