Cloud Computing Engineer for the Office of HPD TECH

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the citys housing and diversity and strength in the citys neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

We maintain building and resident safety and health.
We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability.
We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness Mayor Adams comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding bringing the 10year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the citys history. This investment coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers is a multipronged strategy to tackle New York Citys complex housing crisis by addressing homelessness and housing instability promoting economic stability and mobility increasing homeownership opportunities improving health and safety and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.

Your Team:

Housing Preservation & Development Technology (HPD Tech) is the IT division within HPD. The Office of HPD Tech leads the agencys effort to transform HPD through technology by promoting productivity and eliminating manual processing shrinking costs and increasing the pace of work. HPD Tech works to improve effectiveness of business processes using core applications for flawless execution. HPD Tech empowers decision makers with access to quality (complete and accurate) information to anticipate and proactively react to building neighborhood and market conditions.

The Office of HPDTech is composed of 7 units: CIO (Chief Information Office) CTO (Chief Technology Office) CPO (Chief Product Office) Budget Enterprise Architecture Planning & Compliance and Information Security.

Your Impact:
As the Cloud Computing Engineer reporting to the Chief Technology Officer you will positively impact the organization cloud computing environment.

Your Role:
This position will be responsible for the setup the management and administration of Azure Cloud Services.

Your Responsibilities:

This position encompasses professional and responsible highly technical consultative responsibilities unique to the design and engineering of complex cloud computing and networks. Under the administrative direction of an agency IT manager with broad latitude of independent action or decision is responsible for the development of comprehensive cloudbased infrastructure solutions. Engineer and operate mission critical infrastructure and be responsible for the access and protection of sensitive data systems and networks. Design and engineer services of New York Citys Microsoft Azure tenant domain network. Lead a team or participate in a team in planning designing implementing and maintaining cloudbased solutions that includes the management of IT facilities network security telecommunications servers storage and virtualization components.

This candidate must possess an Azure Administrator Associate Certification (or equivalent) as well as the following:

General Skills:
Analyzes designs implements documents and monitors infrastructure to maximize performance and capacity. ensures security and availability of data.
Plans initiates and implements new infrastructure or design changes.
Plans initiates and implements new solutions for cloud infrastructure including network and system design and engineering.
Plans define and maintain standards and guidelines for efficiency security reuse interoperability availability consistency and integration.
Define optimal performance level for infrastructure components and ensure that the level is met.
Monitors industry development; liaises with vendors as necessary.
Ensures compliance with agency standards.
Assists with application development regarding new technologies and system requirements.
Identifies probable system problems or design flaws and escalates issues to upper management before serious performance impact.
Define manage and monitor data retention replication data protection and disaster recovery strategies to ensure proper recoverability.
Serves as subject matter expert on topics related to networks servers storage and virtualization; provides training.
Manages inventory of IT hardware and software assets. Liaises with relevant stakeholders to ensure availability of infrastructure solutions.
Maintains disaster recovery configurations for infrastructure perform periodic disaster recovery tests and maintain disaster recovery documentation and procedures in support of infrastructure.
Works closely with various IT teams to resolve infrastructure issues.
Ensure that all changes to the infrastructure adhere to established Change Management policies and procedures.
Manages network or infrastructure engineering for cloud solutions.
Prepares system configurations and management/support documentation.
Assists in the development and review of technical specifications for the procurement of relevant IT systems and services including the evaluation of vendor submissions solicited via bids requests for information and proposals.
May oversee multiple projects and supervise employees.
Required Technical Skills:
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure container registry (ACR)
Azure networking (VNET subnet security groups)
Azure storage (Azure Disks Azure Files)
Azure security (Azure Active Directory RBAC)
Azure CLI and PowerShell
Containerization (Docker containers)
Kubernetes fundamentals (architecture components networking)
Kubernetes architecture and components (Deployments)
Kubernetes APIs and CLI
Networking (Services Firewalls Load Balancing)
Storage
Security (Network Policies)
Monitoring and Logging
Linux/Unix operating systems
Scripting languages (Python)
Familiarity with InfrastructureasService
Redis configuration and optimization
Database administration (data modeling caching strategies) (optional)

Required Operational Skills:
Scaling and upgrading Kubernetes nodes
Managing Kubernetes networking and security
Troubleshooting Kubernetes issues (pod deployment service)
Implementing high availability and redundancy
Managing Azure resources (VMs storage networking)
Integrating Kubernetes with Azure services (Azure Storage Azure Functions)
Managing Kubernetes configurations (yaml json)
Cluster provisioning and management
Application deployment and scaling
Resource management (CPU memory storage)
Troubleshooting and debugging
Backup and disaster recovery (optional)
Upgrade and patch management
Performance optimization
Cost management and resource utilization
Redis data structures and commands
Redis clustering and replication
Redis persistence and backup strategies
Redis performance optimization
Redis security (authentication authorization)

Required Soft Skills:
Collaboration and teamwork
Communication and documentation
Problemsolving and analytical thinking
Adaptability and flexibility
Time management and prioritization
Continuous learning and professional development


Preferred Additional SkillsCerts (a plus):
Cloud provider knowledge (AWS GCP Azure)
Programming languages (C# Java Python Node.js)
Machine learning and artificial intelligence
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKSS)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Developer
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Redis Certified Developer
Redis Certified Administrator

Qualifications :

(1) A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by twentyfour (24) semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and two (2) years of satisfactory fulltime software experience in designing programming debugging maintaining implementing and enhancing computer software applications systems programming systems analysis and design data communication software or database design and programming including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(2) A fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six (6) years of fulltime satisfactory software experience as described in 1 above including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(3) A satisfactory combination of education and experience that is equivalent to (1) or (2) above. College education may be substituted for up to two years of the required experience in (2) above on the basis that sixty (60) semester credits from an accredited college is equated to one year of experience. A masters degree in computer science or a related computer field may be substituted for one year of the required experience in (1) or (2) above. However all candidates must have a four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent plus at least one (1) year of satisfactory fulltime software experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project.
NOTE: In order to have your experience accepted as Project Leader or Major Contributor experience you must explain in detail how your experience qualifies you as a project leader or as a major contributor. Experience in computer operations technical support quality assurance (QA) hardware installation help desk or as an end user will not be accepted for meeting the minimum qualification
requirements.
Special Note
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level IV in addition to the Qualification Requirements stated above individuals must have one year of satisfactory experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project in data administration database management systems operating systems data communications systems capacity planning and/or online applications programming.

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