What are the responsibilities and job description for the VIRTUALIZATION ADMINISTRATOR position at City of New York?
APPLICANTS MUST BE PERMANENT IN THE COMPUTER SPECIALIST (SOFTWARE) CIVIL SERVICE TITLE.
The Department of Social Services (DSS) is comprised of the administrative units of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). HRA is dedicated to fighting poverty and income inequality by providing New Yorkers in need with essential benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance. DHS is committed to preventing and addressing homelessness in New York City by employing a variety of innovative strategies to help families and individuals successfully exit shelter and return to selfsufficiency as quickly as possible.
Information Technology Services (ITS) is DSSs technology services organization. ITS mission is to support the daily emergent and longterm needs of both agencies. ITS creates and enhances the technology infrastructure and computer applications that support HRA and DHS and develops applications including a variety of client eligibility and recertification systems case management systems housing systems employment / work engagement services revenue producing computer matches claiming systems and personnel systems.
Information Technology Services (ITS) / Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) is recruiting for one (1) Computer Specialist SW) III to function as a Virtualization Administrator who will :
Develop recommend manage cloud and virtual infrastructure. Ensure VMWare ESXi
Vcenter VROPS VRA and other vendor software components are operating accurately
and efficiently within the ITS I&O Operations. Troubleshoot all issues with various ITS
teams and external vendors to maintain business continuity.
Assist ITS teams in the execution of engineering operational cloud and virtualization
workflows and the use of capacity planning tools that focus on speed to market return
on investment and delivery of business value. Work as an engineer for the modernization
of the agencys cloud and VMWare infrastructure. Collaborate with the administration
various teams business users along with VMWare and Microsoft to architect engineer
and deploy modern technology. Work daily with developers and business relationship
managers (BRMs) to assist and support their customized solutions.
Keep current with new emerging technological trends that are producing measurable
and consistent benefits for the businesses including cloud platform service opportunities
on prem / private cloud virtual backup VDI and analyze such technologies to bring into scope
of existing infrastructure. Must be familiar with Vmware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Suite and
all practical applications associated with the suite.
Apply specialized cloud and virtualization business knowledge to define the engineering
requirements based on an understanding of the customers business needs and objectives.
Act as the lead engineer and deploy the latest tools including Vcloud Vrealize Operation
Manager Vrealize Automation Vcenter Esxi NSX and Horizon View to meet the business
needs.
Assist in the application of the information technology strategy and vision with Information
Security business departments and business partners to ensure business continuity
productivity and security are maximized. Must be able to proactively work with Cyber
Command to remain compliant with cyber initiatives.
Identify deliver maintain and monitor key operational metrics to assess systems health
infrastructure efficiency and proper data maintenance and management then assist in driving
the activities and projects to ensure the IT organization achieves those metrics.
Hours / Shift : 9am 5pm
COMPUTER SPECIALIST (SOFTWARE) 13632
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 : Employment Type :
Fulltime
Key Skills
Hadoop,Microsoft Windows Server,Windows,Apache,Linux,SAN,Shell Scripting,System Administration,Administrative Experience,Scripting,Oracle,Troubleshooting
Vacancy : 1
