Endpoint Security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) Specialist for the Division of HPD TECH

Job Description

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

- We maintain building and resident safety and health
- We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
- We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.
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Your Team:

Housing Preservation & Development Technology (HPD Tech) is the IT division within HPD. The Office of HPD Tech leads the agency’s effort to transform HPD through technology by promoting productivity and eliminating manual processing, shrinking costs, and increasing the pace of work. HPD Tech works to improve effectiveness of business processes using core applications for flawless execution. HPD Tech empowers decision makers with access to quality (complete and accurate) information to anticipate and pro-actively react to building, neighborhood and market conditions.

The Office of HPDTech is composed of 7 units: CIO (Chief Information Office), CTO (Chief Technology Office), CPO (Chief Product Office), Budget, Enterprise Architecture, Planning & Compliance, and Information Security.


Your Impact:

As the Endpoint Security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) Specialist for the Division of HPDTech, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding our organization’s digital assets by focusing on the management of endpoint security solutions from various vendors such as Trelix, Crowdstrike, and Microsoft, and ensuring the right individuals have the appropriate access to critical systems and data. This position is central to enhancing our security posture, reducing risk, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. By driving the implementation and continuous improvement of our endpoint security tools and IAM processes, tools, and policies, the successful candidate will help shape a secure and scalable access environment that supports business agility and operational efficiency across the enterprise. Your contributions will directly impact user experience, security incident prevention, and the organization’s ability to meet its governance and audit goals.

Your Role:

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Endpoint Security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) Specialist to join our cybersecurity team. In this role, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining identity and access solutions that ensure secure, compliant, and efficient access to organizational resources. You will manage the full identity lifecycle, including provisioning, deprovisioning, role-based access controls, authentication mechanisms, and access reviews. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of IAM technologies, security best practices, and regulatory requirements. This role is essential to strengthening our security posture, supporting operational efficiency, and enabling secure digital transformation across the agency. Additionally, the candidate will be required to focus on the management of endpoint security solutions from various vendors such as Trelix, Crowdstrike, and Microsoft, within our environments. The role will be responsible for the day-to-day operations, installations, troubleshooting, reporting and incident management of the security products across the entire infrastructure environment. The analyst will also be required to support new configuration requests, testing and deployment for endpoint solutions.


Your Responsibilities:

- Deploy, manage, and monitor endpoint protection solutions (e.g., antivirus, anti-malware) across all agency devices.
- Investigate and respond to endpoint security incidents and alerts in coordination with the SOC or incident response team.
- Conduct periodic security assessments and audits of endpoints to identify and remediate risks.
- Maintain visibility i