Cybersecurity Analyst: Threat Detection & Incident Response

Empire State; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Empire State in Albany, NY is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst to monitor and protect critical information systems, working with the Security and Network teams to uphold security standards.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree in IT or related field with 3+ years’ experience, security certifications, and hands-on vulnerability/incident response work; salary ranges from $85,000 to $90,000 annually.

In-office presence is required; hybrid schedules may be possible based on job duties and ESD policy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT-related discipline with minimum of 3 years' experience in related field; or a 2-year degree with minimum of 5 years' experience.
• Security certifications (currently held or in progress).

Responsibilities

• Assist with monitoring, deployment, administration, and troubleshooting network security solutions.
• Assist with performing vulnerability and penetration tests on endpoints and information systems and mitigate identified risk
• Monitor network traffic and security solutions for suspicious behavior and troubleshoot / escalation issues as needed
• Assist ESD's Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) to Perform Forensic analysis on suspicious network behavior and potentially compromised systems
• Assist with monitoring ESD's SIEM solutions
• Assist with managing ESD's Data Encryption Services solution
• Manage ESD's patch management solution and apply application, endpoint, server and security appliance critical updates and patches
• Work with ESD's Security team to support and administrate ESD's Next Gen anti-virus solutions
• Assist with managing ESD's Secure File Transfer Solution and Treasury secure bank file transmissions
• Assist with managing ESD's MFA and SSO solutions
• Assist with all critical system security requests to include granting or restricting access to ESD's critical business systems
• Create and maintain documentation, flowcharts, diagrams and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) for ESD's Security Infrastructure
• Assist with daily monitoring of critical security infrastructure
• Active member of ESD's Cybersecurity Incident Response Team
• Collaborate on Cybersecurity Policies and Procedures
• Assist ESD's Help Desk with incident management as directed
• Assist with IT Disaster Recovery efforts, testing and documentation
• Perform other related duties and / or projects as directed by IT Management

Skills

Information security concepts

Network security

Vulnerability testing

Penetration testing

SIEM

MFA/SSO

Data encryption

Patch management

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT-related discipline

2-year degree with 5 years experience

Security certifications

Tools

SIEM

Next Gen anti-virus

MFA/SSO

Data Encryption Services

Secure File Transfer Solution

Job description

Empire State in Albany, NY is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst to monitor and protect critical information systems, working with the Security and Network teams to uphold security standards.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree in IT or related field with 3+ years’ experience, security certifications, and hands-on vulnerability/incident response work; salary ranges from $85,000 to $90,000 annually.

In-office presence is required; hybrid schedules may be possible based on job duties and ESD policy.