Security Policy Manager - JVN #1662

Title: Security Policy Manager - JVN #1662
Salary Range: $95,000 to $100,000 plus Excellent Comprehensive Benefits Package
Work Location: Brooklyn, NY (15 Metrotech)

New York City's fastest growing Department, the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) is a nationally recognized provider of customer service based IT solutions and services. DoITT provides an array of services to other City agencies as well as directly to the citizens of New York through the 3-1-1 Citizen Services Center, NYC TV, NYC.gov, and its GIS, Data Center and Telecom Divisions.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Reporting to the Assistant Commissioner for IT Security, the Security Policy Manager will head a unit tasked with formulating and publishing IT security policies and procedures for the City of New York. Responsibilities will include:
Head a unit tasked with formulating and publishing IT security policies and procedures for the City of New York;
Security policies will cover the full scope of IT activities such as operations, networking, system administration and applications.
The Security Policy unit will also develop operational security guides to support published policies. These security guides will be used by IT personnel in over 50 City agencies to help them strengthen the security of their operations;
Participate in the City's Computer Emergency Response Team, the primary IT responder in case of an electronic attack on the City's information infrastructure.

PREFERRED SKILLS:
Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
A minimum of two years of experience in developing computer security policies and/or operational security guides;
Strong subject matter expertise in computer operations required;
In-depth knowledge of operating systems, firewalls, IDS, IPS, email security, LDAP, content filtering and single sign-on are desirable.
A CISSP certification (or similar) is desirable, although not a requirement.
Experience in managing projects, staff and consultants.

The candidate should be prepared to provide a portfolio of sample policies and/or guides that they have personally authored or edited.

CIVIL SERVICE QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
A Master's Degree in computer science from an accredited college and three years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience using mainframe, mini- or micro-computer technology in computer applications programming, systems programming, computer systems development, data telecommunications, data base administration, or planning of data processing, at least 18 months of this experience must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity in the areas of computer applications programming, systems programming, computer systems development, data telecommunications, data base administration, or planning of data processing or in the supervision of staff performing these duties,
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A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college and four years of experience as described above
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A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of experience as described above,
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Education and experience equivalent to the above. However, all candidates must have at least a high school diploma or its equivalent and must possess at least three years experience as described above, including the 18 months of administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory experience as described above.

NOTE: The following types of experience are NOT acceptable; superficial use of preprogrammed software without complex programming, design, implementation or management of the product; use of word processing packages; use of a hand held calculator; primarily the entering or updating of data in a system; the operation of data processing hardware or consoles.

TO APPLY, PLEASE SUBMIT RESUME INDICATING JVN # TO: Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) Recruitment Office, 75 Park Place - 9th Floor, New York, NY 10007
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E-mail to SYSrecruit@doitt.nyc.gov (indicate Office Title in subject line)

The City of New York is an Equal Opportunity Employer