The mission of the New York City Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in New York City by working in partnership with the community to enforce the law, preserve peace, protect the people, reduce fear, and maintain order. The NYPD strives to foster a safe and fair city by incorporating Neighborhood Policing into all facets of Department operations, and solve the problems that create crime and disorder through an interdependent relationship between the people and its police, and by pioneering strategic innovation.

The Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) supports the Department by acquiring, distributing, installing and maintaining Local Area Networks, personal computers, mainframe computers, software, and data communications networks. ITSD also plans and coordinates the implementation of advanced technology.

Job duties include:
1. Plan, define and maintain policies, standards, configuration and operating procedures and guidelines regarding security, identity and access. Define, manage and monitor data security,
confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
2. Monitors industry developments; liaises with vendors. Ensures compliance with Citywide and agency security policies and standards. Recommends updates and improvements to agency
security policies and standards. Consults with agency executives to provide IT Security Policy guidance.
3. Identifies probable system exposure, compromise, problems or design flaws and escalates issues to upper management to limit serious performance impact.
4. Design, implement and support Cisco-centric WAN, LAN, and wireless infrastructure.
5. Offers support to application development, network, server, database and storage teams regarding new technologies, services, and system requirements.
6. Provide security design assistance on new products and internally developed projects.
7. Manage and support remote access technologies (VPN, Terminal Services, etc).
8. Work with emerging technologies such as SD-Wan, Cisco ACI, and data center products.
9. Lead complex Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) configurations in terms of inter VRF routing through firewalls, and service changing.

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.

-ACI Skills is required -Experience with SD-WAN, network switching(capacity planning & VLAN), network routing (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP), WAN technologies(WPLMS, VPN) and network firewalls -Experience Cisco wireless deployments, Cisco data carrier, local balancing -6 years of related experience, including two years in an Engineer position -Experience in executing physical equipment installs -Cisco Certification is desired but not required. CCHP+, Understanding of MPL%, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, OOS -Knowledge of Data Center networking such as Nexus, and ACI -Ability to multi-task, work independently and/or within a team, attention to detail and meet deadlines -Proficient in general office PC skills using MS Office and other various software applications or systems.

New York City Residency is not required for this position

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.