Principal Automation Engineer
City of New York22 hours ago
Brooklyn, NY, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide site reliability engineering support for automation services and ensure reliability, performance, and uptime targets are met.
- Write, update, and maintain infrastructure and automation code, CI/CD pipelines, IaC modules, and monitoring and alerting scripts.
- Serve as the highest escalation point for production incidents, lead root cause analysis, and resolve complex platform issues.
- Lead design sessions for new services, cluster expansions, and platform improvements.
- Manage, coordinate, and review the work of DevOps Engineers while planning and prioritizing personal workloads.
- Own production environments, enforce technical standards and documentation, and promote operational best practices.
- Handle special projects and initiatives as assigned.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in computer science and three years of progressively responsible 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.
- A satisfactory combination of education and experience may qualify; undergraduate and graduate credits may substitute for limited portions of the required IT experience, but not for the 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.
Benefits
- The employer states that OTI offers great benefits and the opportunity to work on technology projects with public impact.
- Permanent position open only to eligible NYC city employees and reachable civil service candidates.
- Work location is Brooklyn, NY.
- Day shift is listed, but overtime and weekend, night, or evening shifts may be required because the operation is 24/7.
- The position is open to qualified persons with disabilities eligible for the 55-a Program.
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About City of New York
The City of New York is the municipal government for the five boroughs, delivering public services such as housing, social assistance, public safety, and digital tools for residents and businesses. It is publicly funded and operates agencies including the Department of Social Services (HRA and DHS) and the New York City Housing Authority. Headquartered in New York, NY, it builds and maintains large-scale systems supporting benefits eligibility, case management, housing, and civic services.