NG911 IT Security Analyst – SOC / SIEM /… at OZ Solutions… · New York

About the role
OZ Solutions Group is hiring an NG911 IT Security Analyst for a New York City government agency. You'll work as a security subject matter expert on the Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG911) program, which upgrades the call system that handles every 911 call in New York City. You'll secure the Class 1/2/3 and Call Handling upgrades through their configuration and test phases.

This is hands-on security operations and analysis work for mission-critical public-safety infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Determine security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements
• Analyze security assurance levels and evaluate security policy against next-generation threats
• Analyze new threats and exploits; design and implement firewall and IPS solutions to mitigate them
• Assess risks to critical applications, recommend security controls, and communicate risk to business units
• Monitor for and respond to malicious activity; run cybersecurity, technical and forensic investigations
• Write playbooks for security events
• Build SIEM dashboards, onboard log sources, and tune detection rules to cut false positives
• Automate workflows with SOAR and scripting (Python, batch, PowerShell)
• Pull reporting data from SQL databases
• Resolve operational security incidents and requests

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Intrusion Prevention/Detection Systems (e.g., Palo Alto Threat Prevention, Cisco Firepower/Sourcefire, FortiGate IPS, Snort/Suricata, Trellix NSP, Check Point)
• Extensive experience performing cyber and technical threat analysis
• SIEM experience: building dashboards, onboarding logs, writing and tuning correlation rules (Splunk, QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, ArcSight, LogRhythm, or similar)
• SOAR expertise (Splunk SOAR/Phantom, Cortex XSOAR, Sentinel playbooks, IBM Resilient, Swimlane, or similar)
• Incident response and digital forensics experience
• Scripting for automation (Python, batch, PowerShell)
• SQL for reporting
• Working knowledge of security regulations and standards (NIST 800-53, CJIS, ISO 27001, etc.)
• Must currently live in the NYC metro area (NYC, Long Island, Westchester, northern/central NJ, or southwestern CT) and be able to come on-site in Brooklyn when required.

Nice to have

• 911, NG911, public-safety, or emergency-communications experience
• NYC or other government agency experience
• Certifications such as CISSP, GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, CySA+, Security+, CISM, or Splunk certifications

Pay: $135,000.00 - $155,000.00 per year

Work Location: Remote