Senior DevOps Engineer

OPEN TO CITY EMPLOYEES ONLY PERMANENT IN THIS TITLE

The Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) leverages technology to drive opportunity improve public safety and help run better across New York City. From delivering affordable broadband to protecting against cybersecurity threats and building digital government services OTI is at the forefront of how the city delivers for New Yorkers in the 21st century. Follow us on social media @NYCOfficeofTech and visit to learn more.

At OTI we offer great benefits and the chance to work on projects that have a meaningful impact on millions of people. Youll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and collaborate with other passionate professionals who share your drive and commitment to making a difference through technology.

OTI seeks an experienced and forward-thinking Senior DevOps Engineer to drive the modernization scalability and security of the citys critical digital 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 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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COMPUTER SYSTEMS MANAGER - 1005D

Qualifications :

1. A masters 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.

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 :

Full-time