Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

The Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) runs technology for New York City, from affordable broadband and cybersecurity to digital government services.

The team needs a senior DevOps engineer to modernize, scale and secure the city's critical digital infrastructure.

You would connect development and operations by automating core processes, so civic technology reaches millions of New Yorkers and thousands of businesses every day.

The posting notes that benefits are offered but does not list them.

Responsibilities

• Build and run scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure with tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines, for example in Azure DevOps or GitHub, so releases are quick, safe and dependable.
• Set up and manage Docker containers and container services such as Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS or Azure AKS for microservices.
• Put in place thorough logging, monitoring and alerting with tools such as Dynatrace, Elastic, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or ScienceLogic, keeping systems available and catching problems early.
• Build and maintain pipelines that run security scans and manage vulnerabilities.
• Lead automated provisioning, patching and version upgrades for cloud databases and containerized applications, protecting availability, security and performance.
• Look after application configuration, secrets and certificates.
• Work with software engineering, security and product teams to build a DevOps culture, giving technical direction and mentoring junior engineers.
• Rapidly prototype, test and deploy new AI models, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and proofs of concept to judge feasibility and speed up innovation.
• Take on special projects and initiatives as assigned.

Requirements

• Hold a master's degree in computer science from an accredited college or university, plus 3 years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory IT experience such as applications or systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing or user services, with at least 18 months in management, executive or administrative positions in those areas or supervising staff doing that work.
• Or hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, plus 4 years of the same kind of experience described above.
• Or hold a 4-year high school diploma or equivalent, plus 6 years of that experience.
• Or have an equivalent mix of education and experience to the options above. In every case you need at least a 4-year high school diploma or equivalent and 3 years of that experience, including 18 months in an administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory role.
• Without a bachelor's degree, undergraduate credits can count toward up to 2 years of IT experience, at 30 semester credits per 6 months. Graduate computer science credits can count toward up to 1 year, at 30 graduate semester credits per year. Undergraduate or graduate credits cannot replace the 18 months of administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory experience.

Conditions

Based in Brooklyn, NY.

Civil service title: Computer Systems Manager, 1005D.

Open only to permanent employees in this title and to those reachable on the current civil service list.

Applicants with other civil service titles who meet the preferred requirements may also submit a resume.

Submitting a resume does not guarantee an interview.

Appointments are subject to oversight approval.

Open to qualified people with a disability who are eligible under the 55-a Program.

The team runs 24/7, so you may be required to work overtime and/or various shifts, including weekends and/or nights or evenings.

The city is an equal opportunity employer that values a diverse workforce and prohibits discrimination and harassment based on legally protected characteristics.

Benefits

• The posting notes that benefits are offered but does not list them.