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NY HELPNo

AgencyHomeland Security and Emergency Services, Division of

TitleInformation Technology Specialist 4 (Information Security)

Occupational CategoryOther Professional Careers

Salary Grade25

Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)

Salary RangeFrom $90806 to $114444 Annually

Employment Type Full-Time

Appointment Type Contingent Permanent

Jurisdictional Class Non-competitive Class

Travel Percentage 10%

Workweek Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week 37.5

Workday

From 8 AM

To 5 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? Yes

County Albany

Street Address 1220 Washington Ave

Building 7A

City Albany

StateNY

Zip Code12226

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree* with at least 15 credit hours in cyber security, information assurance, or information technology AND three years of information technology experience including two years of information security or information assurance experience**.

Substitution*:
• Bachelor's degree candidates without at least 15 course credits in cyber security, information assurance, or information technology require an additional year of general information technology experience to qualify.
• Appropriate information security or information assurance experience may substitute for the bachelor's degree on a year-for-year basis. An associate degree requires an additional two years of general information technology experience.

**Experience solely in information security or information assurance may substitute for the general information technology experience.

Duties Description Duties may include but are not limited to:

• Design, plan, and facilitate cyber security tabletop exercises to foster information-sharing and enhance cyber awareness with stakeholders.
• Conduct post-exercise after-action analysis, reporting, and assessment, develop recommendations, and design future exercises to validate improvements.
• Review, analyze, and comment on customer incident response plans and provide suggestions to improve customer incident response efforts.
• Conduct outreach to non-executive agencies, local governments, public authorities, and critical infrastructure entities to discuss cyber security policies, programs, and infrastructure.
• Assist in the development of customer-facing cyber security programs which align with industry best practices across domains such as IT asset management, configuration management, cyber security policies and procedures, data governance, access management, endpoint protection, vulnerability management, incident response and security awareness training.
• Assist with remote and on-site customer cyber security assessments including cyber risk assessments against the CIS Critical Security Controls, network scans, and cyber threat and vulnerability analysis.
• Liaise with cyber security industry experts to maintain knowledge of cyber trends and techniques.
• Assist team members tasked with customer-facing incident response as they perform analysis to determine root cause and provide guidance to the customer regarding incident containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Provide input to Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) members tasked with customer-facing incident response as they develop long term recommendations to Customers post-incident based on “lessons learned.”
• Perform full scope of supervisory functions.
• Possession and maintenance of a valid Driver’s License issued by the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles is required.
• Travel will be required to support customer initiatives and engagements.

Additional Comments NOTE: Support of operations during times of emergency and disaster from State Emergency Operations Center (EOC), state field offices and/or local deployments may be required, which would result in a change and/or increase in working hours, locations and/or duties.

NOTE ON TELECOMMUTING: Employees are required to apply and obtain approval through management to telecommute according to the agency’s Telecommuting Program Guidelines.

Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify your identity.

Name Human Resources/JH

Telephone 518-408-9205

Fax 518-486-8432

Email Address HRresumes@dhses.ny.gov

Address

Street NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, HRM

1220 Washington Ave., Building 7A

City Albany

State NY

Zip Code 12226

Notes on ApplyingPlease submit a cover letter and/or resume detailing how you meet the minimum qualifications. Indicate the Position Title & Vacancy ID number of each position you are applying to.