NYC Dept of Info Technology (DoITT) Looking for Senior Director, Enterprise Cloud Services. at Brooklyn Heights, NY Full Time

Senior Director, Enterprise Cloud Services

Salary: up to $177,250 Commensurate with Experience
Excellent Benefits

Brooklyn, NY                     

The Senior Director for Enterprise Cloud Services serves as the lead technical manager for the City of New York’s cloud hosting services, enabling more than 70 agencies to leverage cloud solutions. The Senior Director oversees a team of engineers and architects that are responsible for delivering and administering the Agency’s multi-tenant cloud computing strategy and service offering; and manages the iDevOps team responsible for the IT automation framework and service optimization program.

Job Description:

• Oversee the design and deployment of cloud computing services such as IaaS, SaaS and PaaS;
• Develop technical roadmap for private and public cloud implementation;
• Manage validation of technical business cases for cloud-based solutions;
• Supervise Subject Matter Expert team of cloud engineers and architects;
• Ensures security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions;
• Manage team responsible for automation engineering platforms and tools, such as Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible, et;
• Oversee development of Ansible playbooks used in deployment and operations;
• Consult with clients to proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability;
• Follow trends in technology and lead new approaches to scalability and high availability of distributed cloud container architecture & services’
• Work individually without much direction while also working as part of a team toward common goals;
• Work on large scale Cloud projects related to design deployment and configuration;
• Configure templates, establish standardized architecture and processes to automate builds and implementation;
• Build maintain and operation an enterprise data lake;
• Document architected solutions, functional and design specifications, presentations, and other documents as needed.

Preferred skills:

• 10+ years of experience, at least 5+ years managing a team of technical professionals;
• 3-5 years’ experience provisioning, deploying, and operating large scale web services AWS, Azure and Google; including Cloud Watch & Auto scaling, scale sets, Availability set, Azure ASR, traffic management, CDN;
• Strong working knowledge of Windows, VMWare, VXRail, and other enterprise-level technology platforms;
• Strong working knowledge and experience is hosting disciplines: storage, storage arrays, storage networking, network protocols, and general connectivity in multi-platform enterprise environments;
• Communicates effectively verbally, including excellent presentation skills to team mates as well as upper management; knowledge of VMware tools stack, EMC Virtual Storage Integrator; in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in DNS, LDAP, TCP/IP, SNMP and other network protocols;
• Hyper-converged networking architecture experience and working knowledge of SAN infrastructure, protocols and enterprise class storage systems and storage related concepts as it relates to building and supporting an enterprise class virtual infrastructure;
• Experience and working knowledge of enterprise networking systems, protocols and security related concepts as it relates to building and supporting an enterprise class virtual infrastructure;
• Strong project management and task execution skills;
• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills;
• Experience with popular programming languages (Java, Javascript, C++, C#, Python, Go, etc.);
• Experience with Ansible and Ansible Tower;
• Experience with testing and debugging distributed systems and web architectures;
• Experience with and a clear understanding of cloud services and deployment models;
• Experience with virtualized cloud infrastructure such as vSphere, OpenStack, AWS, GCE, or Azure;
• Working knowledge of Hashicorp Terraform infrastructure as code product suite;
• Experience using infrastructure as code tools (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation);
• Familiarity with ElasticSearch and various analytic solutions;
• Solid understanding of cloud design in the areas of virtualization and global infrastructure, distributed systems, load balancing and security;
• Solid knowledge of AWS platform and its services – including but not limited to: AMIs, Route53, VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, SQS, Cloud Watch, securing of VPC, implementation of Security Groups, Identity and Access Management, Backups, Restore and Disaster recovery;
• Experience administering/supporting Windows and Linux systems running in Azure;
• Solid Knowledge of Azure platform and supporting services, including but not limited to; Azure Active Directory, Azure B2C, Azure Logic app, Express Route, Service Bus, Functions, OMS, automation accounts, NSG’s, etc;
• Hands-on experience with containerization platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker, and familiarity with micro services management a plus.

Qualification Requirements: 

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics or related field and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture and/or IT infrastructure systems;

or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and ten years of satisfactory full-time experience related to enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture and/or IT infrastructure systems;

or

3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to “1” or “2” above.

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