DevOps Engineer

About the role

The Mayor's Office of Contract Services (MOCS) oversees and provides services related to procurement citywide. It ensures fairness, transparency, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness in the procurement process. MOCS uses technology tools, publishes data, hosts public hearings, and collaborates with agencies and vendors to improve procurement practices.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the entire lifecycle of operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Support the production and non-production J2EE environments.
• Coordinate execution of break fixes in both environments.
• Architect and design infrastructure of new applications in collaboration with development teams.
• Determine timelines and project tasks for internal and vendor development teams.
• Ensure deliverables meet requirements and provide production management support input for new application builds.
• Engage with QA during testing to monitor servers and provide feedback.
• Ensure team has proper information for deployment and work with development teams to match code to server software stacks and specifications.
• Develop and streamline deployment processes and pipelines.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and reduce manual intervention time.
• Manage operational readiness testing and communicate project statuses to senior staff, executive management, and stakeholders.
• Prepare senior level technical reports for executive management.
• Manage special IT projects as assigned.

Requirements

Must demonstrate competency and/or history of consistent quality performance in the following areas:

• Expertise in developing deployment templates for infrastructure automation tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.
• Experience administering and maintaining AWS infrastructure, Atlassian products, Windows servers, Linux servers, IBM FileNet, and J2EE application stacks.
• Familiarity with configuring SSO using SAML across different applications and platforms.
• Knowledge of SQL queries (T-SQL or similar).
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Perl, or Unix Shell Scripting) across multiple environments for configuration management, build, and deployment activities.
• Understanding of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins.
• Understanding of building and deploying Portal applications.
• Understanding of source or version control management tools such as Subversion, Git, or Bitbucket.
• Knowledge of virtualized (VMWare), distributed architecture with High Availability.
• Understanding of network troubleshooting using tools such as network analyzers, sniffers.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, presentation, and facilitation skills; ability to handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines.
• Initiative and ability to investigate, follow-up with various stakeholders, e.g., Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI), vendors to resolve issues.