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Job Summary:
Dice is seeking a Senior Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Specialist to serve the City of New York in advanced-level cybersecurity. The Senior CERT Specialist will guide the development and deployment of incident response policies and serve as a primary technical authority during high-profile cybersecurity incidents.
Responsibilities:
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point for high-profile cybersecurity incidents, supporting the CERT Lead in ensuring 24x7 operational readiness;
• Lead complex incident response engagements end-to-end, coordinating activities among City departments, external partners, and state, federal, and private entities;
• Provide technical mentorship, peer review, and on-the-job training to CERT Specialists, including guidance on forensic methodology, analytical rigor, and report quality;
• Act as a subject matter expert in investigating cybersecurity incidents through advanced log, file, and malware analysis;
• Perform and oversee memory, network, disk, and cloud forensics across enterprise environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform);
• Devise and validate remediation strategies and assist affected City agencies in containing, eradicating, and recovering from cybersecurity incidents;
• Lead the development of post-incident action plans and root-cause analyses to improve Mean Time to Detect, Respond, and Recover/Restore;
• Design, build, and enhance cyber-incident detection tools, automation, and response capabilities, including custom tooling and detection content;
• Partner with cyber threat intelligence teams to operationalize indicators, TTPs, and campaign intelligence into proactive countermeasures and threat hunts;
• Design, lead, and facilitate cyber tabletop exercises with City departments to identify capability gaps, procedural weaknesses, and critical infrastructure dependencies;
• Contribute to the development, review, and continuous improvement of citywide incident response policies, playbooks, and standard operating procedures;
• Assist NYC agencies in maturing their cyber incident response programs through direct consultation and capability assessments;
• Maintain current knowledge of cyber threat campaigns, adversary tradecraft, and emerging vulnerabilities, and share that knowledge across the team;
• Participate in on-call rotation, which may require rotational weekday/weekend coverage;
• Handle special projects and initiatives as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to projects and policies required by the particular position; or,
• Education and/or experience which is equivalent to '1' above.
Preferred:
• Significant experience performing security events and incident detection, handling, and response in an operational environment such as SOC, CSIRT, or CERT, including experience leading incidents.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring or providing technical leadership to junior analysts or responders.
• Advanced experience reviewing and analyzing security events from diverse monitoring and logging sources, including SIEM, EDR, and cloud-native telemetry.
• Deep knowledge of packet analysis and IDS/IPS technology.
• Proven experience conducting host, network, memory, and disk forensics in enterprise environments.
• Proven experience conducting incident response and forensics in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience conducting malware analysis, including static and dynamic analysis and reverse engineering.
• Strong understanding of intrusion analysis, attacker tradecraft, and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and the Cyber Kill Chain.
• Experience designing and facilitating tabletop exercises or incident response training.
• Experience with website and web application security assessment or penetration testing.
Company:
Dice is a job-searching platform for technology professionals. It is a sub-organization of DHI Group. Founded in 1990, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.