OPEN TO CITY EMPLOYEES ONLY PERMANENT IN THIS TITLE

OTI seeks an experienced and forward-thinking Senior DevOps Engineer to drive the modernization, scalability, and security of the city's critical digital infrastructure. In this role, you will bridge the gap between development and operations, automating core processes to ensure the seamless delivery of civic technology solutions that serve millions of New Yorkers and thousands of businesses daily.

Responsibilities will include:
-Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
-Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub) to ensure fast, secure, and reliable software deployments.
-Architect and manage containerized environments utilizing Docker and containerized cloud services (e.g., Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS) to support microservices.
-Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting systems (e.g., Dynatrace, Elastic, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, ScienceLogic) to ensure high availability and proactive issue resolution.
-Develop, integrate, and maintain pipelines that automate security scanning and vulnerability management.
-Lead the automated provisioning, patching, and version upgrades of cloud databases and containerized applications to ensure high availability, security, and peak performance.
-Maintain application configuration, secrets, and certificates.
-Partner closely with software engineering, security, and product teams to foster a DevOps culture, providing technical leadership and mentoring junior engineers.
-Drive rapid prototyping, validation, and deployment of cutting-edge AI models, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and Proofs of Concept (POCs) to evaluate technical feasibility and accelerate business innovation.
-Perform special projects and initiatives as assigned.

HOURS/SHIFT
Day - Due to the technical duties of this position in a 24/7 operation, candidate may be required to work overtime and/or various shifts such as weekends and/or nights/evenings.

WORK LOCATION
Brooklyn, NY

TO APPLY
OPEN TO CITY EMPLOYEES ONLY

Only permanent employees in the title and those that are reachable on the current civil service list are eligible to apply.

Please go to www.cityjobs/jobs/search and search for Job ID# 789192

* Interested applicants with other civil service titles who meet the preferred requirements should also submit a resume for consideration

SUBMISSION OF A RESUME IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INTERVIEW
APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OVERSIGHT APPROVAL

This position is open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program.
Please indicate in your cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position under the 55-a program

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Qualifications

1. A master's degree in computer science from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience in Information Technology (IT) including applications development, systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing, or user services. At least eighteen (18) months of this experience must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity in the areas of applications development, systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing or in the supervision of staff performing these duties; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and four (4) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience as described in "1" above; or

3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and six (6) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience as described in "1" above; or

4. A satisfactory combination of education and experience equivalent to "1", "2" or "3" above. However, all candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and must possess at least three (3) years of experience as described in "1" above, including the eighteen (18) months of administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory experience as described in "1" above.

In the absence of a baccalaureate degree, undergraduate credits may be substituted for a maximum of two (2) years of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 semester credits for six (6) months of the required experience. Graduate credits in computer science may be substituted for a maximum of one (1) year of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 graduate semester credits in computer science for one (1) year of the required IT experience. However, undergraduate and/or graduate credits may not be substituted for the eighteen (18) months of experience in an administrative, managerial, executive, or supervisory capacity as described in "1" above.