City Of New York

SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

City Of New York$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
  • 4 years' experience in datacenter/cloud engineering or complex IT infrastructure operations
  • 8 years' experience in related fields (with a bachelor's degree)
  • Proven track record in supervising technical staff
  • Experience with AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud solutions

Responsibilities

  • Supervise Server Administrators and oversee their workflows
  • Instruct staff on complex network operating systems and software installation
  • Design, implement, and maintain secure AWS & Microsoft Azure solutions
  • Implement and enforce cloud security best practices
  • Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot performance issues
  • Ensure accurate web server and software operations through troubleshooting
  • Lead the evaluation and implementation of new infrastructure technologies

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional development and technical leadership
  • Work in a collaborative environment with cross-agency partnerships
  • Contribution to significant projects in cloud and server technologies
  • Potential for career advancement within the organization
  • Stable working hours from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Full Job Description
Information Technology Services (ITS) is recruiting for one (1) IT Infrastructure Engineer, to function as Senior Systems Administrator, who will:

- Supervise Server Administrators, distribute work assignments, and ensure tasks are completed.

- Instruct/demonstrate staff members and users the proper, efficient usage and/or installation of highly complex network operating systems or related program product software; design, develop, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS & Microsoft Azure cloud solutions supporting agency applications.

- Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, including identity management, encryption, and compliance controls and oversee all aspects of Web Servers and related enterprise software throughout their lifecycle.

- Supervise and provide technical leadership to staff responsible for enterprise Windows infrastructure while directing efforts to evaluate, test, and implement new technologies, and ensuring effective server administration, software deployment, system reliability, and data integrity.

- Collaborate with development teams to analyze application behavior, troubleshoot usability and performance issues, review deployment configurations, and recommend infrastructure-level improvements to enhance user experience and system reliability and oversee deployment and operational support of all web servers in the environment to include application configuration, certificate management, and web services configuration and maintenance.

- Ensure the web servers, hardware and software are operating accurately; troubleshoot all issues with the developers, various infrastructure teams and vendors.

- Implement security hardening measures, monitor vulnerabilities, and maintain web servers and application security to ensure ongoing protection and compliance.

- Serve as backup to the Manager by supervising technical staff, coordinating with City and State agencies including the New York City Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (OTI) and the New York State Department of Social Services (NYSDSS), leading the evaluation, testing, and implementation of emerging infrastructure technologies, and providing hands-on administration and oversight of enterprise Windows Server environments, software deployment, systems operations, and data integrity, backup, and disaster recovery.

Hours/Shift:
9:00am-5:00pm

IT INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER - 95714

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering or a related field and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to datacenter engineering and operations, cloud engineering and operations, complex IT infrastructure engineering; or,

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to datacenter engineering and operations, cloud engineering and operations, complex IT infrastructure engineering; or,

3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above.

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