Principal Automation Engineer

5 days ago

Brooklyn, NY, USAStaff+

Responsibilities

Provide Site Reliability Engineering support for current and new automation services, including reliability, performance, and uptime.
Write, update, and maintain infrastructure and automation code, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code modules, and monitoring and alerting scripts.
Serve as the highest escalation point for production incidents, lead root cause analysis, and drive resolution of complex platform issues.
Lead design sessions for new services, cluster expansions, and platform improvements.
Plan and prioritize personal work while managing, coordinating, and reviewing the work of DevOps Engineers.
Act as technical owner for production environments and enforce standards, documentation, and operational best practices.
Handle special projects and initiatives as assigned.

A master's degree in computer science and three years of progressively responsible full-time IT experience, including at least 18 months in an administrative, managerial, executive, or supervisory capacity; or a bachelor's degree and four years of qualifying IT experience; or a four-year high school diploma or equivalent and six years of qualifying IT experience.
All candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or equivalent and at least three years of qualifying IT experience, including 18 months of administrative, managerial, executive, or supervisory experience.
Qualifying IT experience may include applications development, systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing, or user services.
Undergraduate or graduate credits may substitute for limited portions of required IT experience, but not for the required 18 months of administrative, managerial, executive, or supervisory experience.
Applicants must be permanent employees in the title or reachable on the current civil service list; qualified employees in other civil service titles may also submit resumes for consideration.

The posting states that OTI offers great benefits and the opportunity to work on projects with meaningful public impact.
Work location is Brooklyn, NY.
The regular shift is daytime, but overtime and weekend or night/evening shifts may be required due to 24/7 operations.
The position is permanent in title and open only to eligible NYC City employees.

5,001-10,000 employees