Systems Engineer

Description

The city's technology office works on broadband access, cybersecurity protection and digital government services for New York City residents.

This role is a Systems Engineer position within the Infrastructure Management Division, where you will work on projects with a broad public impact alongside experienced technology staff.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain VMware infrastructure, including vSphere, ESXi, vCenter and related components.
• Support and tune virtualized compute, storage and networking environments at enterprise scale.
• Automate provisioning, configuration and lifecycle management of virtual infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI and scripting.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions, including Terraform modules and state management.
• Create automation workflows for VM provisioning, patching, configuration and compliance.
• Diagnose and fix complex virtualization, performance and availability problems.
• Work with storage, network, security and cloud teams on integrated infrastructure solutions.
• Help with capacity planning, disaster recovery and high-availability designs.
• Write up architecture, operating procedures and automation standards.
• Take on special projects and infrastructure initiatives as assigned.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college, or a degree supplemented by 24 credits in voice and/or data telecommunications or a related scientific, technical or electronics field, plus four years of satisfactory full-time experience in analytical, planning, operational, technical or administrative work in a voice and/or data telecommunications or closely related electronics planning, management or service organization. One year of that experience must be highly specialized, and 18 months must be in an executive, managerial or administrative role, or supervising staff doing voice and/or data telecommunications work.
• An associate degree from an accredited college, or a degree supplemented by 12 credits in voice and/or data telecommunications or a related scientific, technical, electronics or similar field, plus five years of the experience described in the first option.
• Education and/or experience equivalent to the first option, with at least a four-year high school diploma or equivalent, one year of specialized experience as described in the first option, and 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory experience as described in the first option.

Conditions

Location: Brooklyn, NY.

Hours: because this is a 24/7 operation, you may be required to work various shifts, including weekends and/or nights or evenings.

Civil service exams must be passed to remain employed by the company. If you are a permanent employee in the civil service title listed here, or you file for the exam during an open filing period, you meet this requirement; the Department of Citywide Administrative Services website has filing details.

The civil service title for this role is Telecommunications Manager (No. 8298A).

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

Submitting a resume does not guarantee an interview.

All appointments are subject to oversight approval.

The position is open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program; if you wish to be considered under it, say so in your cover letter.

The company is an equal opportunity employer that works to keep its workforce diverse and free from discrimination and harassment based on any legally protected status.