Lead Data Integration Dev-Ops / Systems Engineer

About the role

The Lead Dev-Ops / Data Integration Systems Engineer will play a crucial role in designing, automating, securing, monitoring, and improving the infrastructure that powers the City’s enterprise data integration and data engineering platforms. This position will help establish reusable infrastructure patterns, improve observability and security, reduce operational bottlenecks, and strengthen the City’s ability to operate reliable data integration systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and improve cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting enterprise data integration platforms and data engineering workflows.
• Build and maintain deployment automation for Linux and Windows servers, containerized workloads, databases, integration runtimes, APIs, and workflow orchestration systems.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and automation using tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, Helm, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Support containerized services and orchestration patterns using Docker and AWS services such as ECS, EKS, ECR, Batch, CloudWatch, and related tools.
• Configure, improve, and maintain system monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability using tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, and SNS.
• Support secure infrastructure patterns for sensitive or restricted data, including access control, secret management, encryption, network segmentation, auditability, and least-privilege design.
• Support enterprise integration platforms and data systems, including DataBridge, DataBridge-Airflow, AIS, MuleSoft, Postgres/PostGIS environments, APIs, and related application stacks.
• Improve operational reliability through backup automation, deployment standardization, incident response practices, performance tuning, and lifecycle management.
• Work closely with data engineers, data architects, application teams, vendors, and stakeholders to support reliable integrations and data services.
• Translate platform requirements into scalable infrastructure designs that can be reused across multiple projects and departments.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues involving infrastructure, networking, containers, databases, pipelines, authentication, scheduling, or application runtime environments.
• Contribute to DevOps standards, infrastructure documentation, operational runbooks, architecture diagrams, and reusable deployment patterns.
• Support continuous improvement of the City’s enterprise data integration ecosystem.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s/advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in DevOps, systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related role.
• Demonstrated experience managing systems or software stacks in a production environment with appropriate testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational support practices.
• Strong Linux systems administration skills; Windows systems administration experience is also useful.
• Strong command-line skills, including Bash and PowerShell.
• Strong scripting skills with Python, Bash, or similar tools.
• Experience with Docker and containerized application deployment.
• Experience with AWS cloud services, preferably including ECS, EKS, ECR, Batch, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC/networking, S3, RDS, and related services.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or Helm.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, CloudWatch, and SNS.
• Experience supporting Postgres or other relational database environments.
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow, DBT, MuleSoft, Kubernetes, and enterprise integration platforms.
• Understanding of secure systems design, access control, secret management, and production change management.
• Experience hosting or supporting GIS, data visualization, data management, or integration tools is a plus.
• Experience in a public-sector or large enterprise environment is a plus.

Qualifications

• Commitment to automation, repeatability, and continuous improvement.
• Dedication to making Philadelphia municipal government more robust, efficient, equitable, and resilient.
• Previous work in a public-sector or large-organization setting is a plus.

Skills and Abilities

• Clear and concise writing and communication skills, with a documentation-driven approach.
• Creative problem-solving and critical thinking.
• Strong operational judgment and attention to reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Ability to manage multiple systems, projects, and production support needs simultaneously.
• Ability to coordinate technical implementation work with engineers, analysts, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Ability to work with non-technical stakeholders and translate operational needs into technical solutions.
• To troubleshoot system health, deployment issues, networking problems, container failures, database performance, and production incidents.
• To design maintainable, secure, and repeatable infrastructure patterns.
• To automate routine operational tasks and reduce manual maintenance burden.
• To maintain clean, secure, and reliable data environments.
• To work effectively in a hybrid cloud and on-premises environment.
• To support systems that handle sensitive, operationally important, or resident-facing data.
• To communicate complex technical concepts in understandable terms.
• To contribute to shared engineering standards and improve operational practices over time.
• To identify opportunities for infrastructure modernization and improvement.

Benefits

We offer Comprehensive health coverage for employees and their eligible dependents, a wellness program offering eligibility into the discounted medical plan, paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays, generous retirement savings options, and participation in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Additionally, we provide free SEPTA transportation, tuition discounts and scholarships, and the opportunity to live in a city that values inclusion, integrity, innovation, empowerment, and hard work.

Pay

Salary Not to Exceed: $100,000
Starting salary to be determined based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Effective May 22, 2023, vaccinations are no longer required for new employees that work in non-medical, non-emergency or patient facing positions with the City of Philadelphia.

Additional Information

The successful candidate must be a city of Philadelphia resident within six months of hire.