Overview
On Site
Contract - Independent
Skills
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE Note: Candidates who do n
Job Details
Client Name: City of New York
Start Date: August 25, 2025
End Date: August 22, 2027
Contract Length (in weeks): 104 Weeks
Night SOC Analyst Hours:
Night SOC Analyst Hours:
Shift Schedule: Night shifts will typically occur between the hours of 6:00 PM and 6:00 AM. The night SOC analyst position will include weekend shifts
SCOPE OF SERVICES
SCOPE OF SERVICES
TASKS:
- Perform many critical functions within the Threat Management discipline including staffing
24x7x365 coverage at the City?s Security Operations Center (SOC) augmenting FTE shift
schedules including days, nights, weekends, and holidays. - Interface with Cyber Command teams internally, with City agencies, vendors, and
information-sharing partners. - Monitor City networks and security alerts for intrusion, attempted compromise, and
anomalous behavior; apply mitigation techniques or escalation factors; correlate threat
intelligence across various logs collected by established security controls. - Produce routine SOC metrics & reporting.
- Maintain situation reports (SITREPS)
- Perform weekly quality control checks.
- Works closely with SOC Director on incident preparation including the continuous
development of new SOC playbooks and runbooks.
Requirements
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered
Minimum 8 years of experience in Threat Management/SOC/Incident Response environment.
- For a senior position, leadership this includes the ability to lead and mentor junior analysts,
coordinate team activities, and manage SOC operations effectively. - Prior experience working in a SOC environment is mandatory. This includes familiarity with
- SOC operations, procedures, and tools such as SIEM (Security Information and Event
- Management) systems, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and endpoint
detection and response (EDR) tools.
DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE: - Knowledge of cybersecurity principles, practices, and procedures
- Strong understanding of network and host technologies
- Experience applying techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusion using IDS
methods and technologies. - Experience with SIEM technologies, malware analysis and mitigation techniques
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