DevOps Engineer

City of New York • New York, NY

3h • $107,137 - $123,208

About The Position

The New York City Department of Sanitation’s Bureau of Information Technology is seeking a DevOps Engineer to augment its existing team with dedicated, scheduled off-hours support. The role focuses on maintaining the security, stability, and high availability of critical agency applications, including SMART, NOVAS, and MIMS, through Linux patching, security remediation, and infrastructure upgrades.

The successful candidate will perform off-hours maintenance, troubleshoot technical issues, respond to outages, and proactively address cybersecurity vulnerabilities while minimizing disruption to agency operations. The role requires hands-on Linux system administration experience, specifically with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or later, and experience with Rancher/Kubernetes containerization technologies.

Candidates should be permanent Certified IT Administrator (LAN/WAN) employees or have taken exam #1111. Candidates serving in similar titles may apply. The listed qualification pathways require a professional/vendor certification in local area network administration and qualifying education and experience, including a baccalaureate degree and two years of relevant experience, a high school diploma and six years of IT experience (including two years of relevant experience), or a satisfactory equivalent. All candidates must have at least one year of qualifying full-time IT experience. Education substitutions and possible future certification requirements are described in the posting.

Requirements

• Permanent Certified IT Administrator (LAN/WAN) status or having taken exam #1111; candidates serving in similar titles may apply.
• Hands-on Linux system administration experience, specifically with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or later.
• Experience with Rancher/Kubernetes containerization technologies.
• Professional/vendor certification in local area network administration, as required for the position.
• One qualifying pathway: a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of satisfactory full-time, non-classroom-based experience in LAN/WAN planning, design, configuration, installation, implementation, troubleshooting, integration, performance monitoring, maintenance, enhancement, and security management; or a four-year high school diploma or equivalent and six years of satisfactory full-time, non-classroom-based IT experience, including at least two years of the described LAN/WAN experience; or a satisfactory equivalent of education and experience.
• At least one year of satisfactory full-time, non-classroom-based IT experience of the described qualifying type.
• Incumbents may be required to update existing or obtain additional professional industry-standard certifications for the technical environments to which they are assigned.

Responsibilities

• Perform monthly security patching, operating system updates, and vulnerability remediation across Linux infrastructure running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or later.
• Monitor cybersecurity advisories, emerging threats, and known vulnerabilities to assess infrastructure exposure and recommend proactive patching and remediation strategies.
• Maintain, update, and upgrade platform tools, including Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Rancher, and RabbitMQ.
• Manage and update Rancher/Kubernetes containerization platforms, ensuring cluster security, performance, and high availability.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and infrastructure upgrades during designated off-hours windows to minimize disruption and maintain availability during peak business hours.
• Serve as a primary technical responder during off-hour shifts for system outages and infrastructure issues.
• Lead root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and service restoration.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level