
Senior Cyber Cloud Security Engineer
New York, NYFull-time$75–140K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Senior Cloud Security Engineer works with NYC agencies to support compliance with cybersecurity policies, standards, and data security practices. The role analyzes identity and access management posture, supports risk management and remediation, and operates defensive technologies across cloud and on-premises environments. It also provides security design guidance and reports project deployment plans to agency technology departments and executive leadership.
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Job Description
The Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) leverages technology to drive opportunity, improve public safety, and help government run better across New York City. From delivering affordable broadband to protecting against cybersecurity threats and building digital government services, OTI is at the forefront of how the city delivers for New Yorkers in the 21st century. Follow us on social media @NYCOfficeofTech, and visit www.nyc.gov/oti to learn more.
At OTI, we offer great benefits, and the chance to work on projects that have a meaningful impact on millions of people. You'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and collaborate with other passionate professionals who share your drive and commitment to making a difference through technology.
About Cyber Command
Cyber Command is charged with protecting all City systems against cyber threats, including systems that deliver vital services to New Yorkers. Headed by the Chief Information Security Officer of the City of New York, we provide in-depth support to over 100 agencies and offices to protect, detect, identify, respond to, and recover from cyber threats.
Job Description
The Senior Cloud Security Engineer will work with all NYC agencies to ensure compliance with NYC cybersecurity policies and standards, industry best-practices and data security practices; analyze the identity and access management posture to provide actionable results in collaboration with other members of the Cloud Security Team; follow-up with tasks executed by agencies and appropriate risk management strategies are undertaken; and assist the agency resources with security challenges and advise on remediation techniques.
Responsibilities will include:
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Ensure that cloud and on-prem technologies are integrated, tested, operated, and configured to meet the objectives of NYC Cyber Command’s defensive efforts.
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Responsible for the operation of key strategic defensive technologies including cloud-based security implementation controls and responder environments, network defenses, Citywide email filtering technology, and endpoint protection
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Provide guidance at various stages of planning and implementing security design, processes and solutions;
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Pivot between numerous technical projects and communicate status at different stakeholder levels;
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Document and report to management the execution phases and project-level solution deployment plans to leverage the NYC agencies' technology departments and executive leadership.
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Handle special projects and initiatives as assigned.
HOURS/SHIFT
Day - Due to the necessary technical duties of this position in a 24/7 operation, candidate may be required to work various shifts such as weekends and/or nights/evenings.
WORK LOCATION
Brooklyn, NY
TO APPLY
- Interested applicants with other civil service titles who meet the preferred requirements should also submit a resume for consideration
Please go to www.cityjobs/jobs/search and search for Job ID #790855
SUBMISSION OF A RESUME IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INTERVIEW
APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OVERSIGHT APPROVAL
OTI participates in E-Verify
IT SECURITY SPECIALIST - 95622
Qualifications
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.
Additional Information
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
Salary Min: $ 75,000.00
Salary Max: $140,000.00
How this job compares
Set against the 565 open Cloud Security Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$75–140K/yr
- New York median$149–215K/yr29 salary ranges
- US median$130–186K/yr474 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $108K, is 42% below the New York median midpoint ($187K) — in the lowest quarter of Cloud Security Engineer salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 35 open Cloud Security Engineer jobs in New York and 565 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Cloud Security Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (515 postings).
- Education
- 93 of the 565 open Cloud Security Engineer jobs (16%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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