Senior Virtual Systems Engineer

****Permanent incumbent only. Only permanent Certified IT Administrator (LAN / WAN) will be considered. *****

The New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) is one of the oldest law enforcement agencies in the country with a mission of combating municipal corruption. It serves the people of New York City by acting as an independent and nonpartisan watchdog for New York City government City agencies and City employees vendors with City contracts individuals and entities that receive City funds.

The Information Technology Unit of the NYC Department of Investigation is looking for a Virtual Systems Engineer to support the agencys IT infrastructure. The ideal candidate will provide enhancements and implementation of new technologies to support the strategic needs of the agency and its partners in the delivery of applications and services in a reliable and secure fashion. The engineer will be responsible for preparing technical reports design documentation and run books.
The engineer is required to assist with scheduled authorized security patches upgrades and assist with change management operations once approved by in house CMB and Security management team.

The selected candidate must demonstrate the ability to exercise independent initiative and judgment when managing upgrading and monitoring the infrastructure along with the DOI applications that reside on them. This includes over 300 Windows and Linux servers running multiple applications such as Exchange SQL Oracle and custom inhouse applications.
Candidate is required to work Nights and Weekends as needed.
Must have a drivers valid New York drivers license.
Candidate must be VCP certified in VMware vSphere 6x 7x and 8.x
If selected the candidate will be fingerprinted and undergo a background investigation.

CERTIFIED IT ADMINISTRATOR (LA 13652

Qualifications :

Professional/vendor certification(s) in local area network administration that is required for the position to be filled. In addition all candidates must have the following:

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of satisfactory fulltime (not classroom based) experience in local area network and/or wide area network planning design configuration installation implementation troubleshooting integration performance monitoring maintenance enhancement and security management; or

2. A fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of satisfactory fulltime (not classroom based) information technology experience of which at least 2 years must have been as described in 1 or

3. A satisfactory equivalent of education and/or experience equivalent to 1 or 2 above. Education may be substituted for experience on the basis that 30 undergraduate semester credits from an accredited college is equivalent to 6 months of experience. A masters degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college may be substitute for one year of experience. However all candidates must have at least one year of satisfactory (not classroom based) fulltime information technology experience as described in 1 above.

Note: In addition to meeting the minimum Qualification Requirements: Incumbents may be required to update existing and/or obtain additional professional industrystandard certification(s) for current and future technical environments(s) in which they may be assigned to work as determined by the employing agency.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime