HBITS: HBITS-08-15059
Senior, IT Specialist
30 month contract
Interview: In-person
Work model: 50% telecommuting, 50% Office per week in Albany, NY
--- Project Description ---
This position provides senior-level operating system administration for
the New York State Department of Labor's hybrid computing
environment, spanning Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes platforms
hosted both on-premises and in the cloud. The position supports the
systems administration and platform management architecture that
sustains the UISIM system following go-live, and is responsible for
technical administration, operational support, and sustained high
availability across all layers of that hybrid infrastructure. The position
resides within the ITS Office of the CTO, CPEO Site Reliability
Engineering organization and works in coordination with State staff who
support these platforms.
--- Day-to-Day Tasks ---
1. Perform hands-on administration of Windows Server and Linux
operating systems across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud-hosted
environments, including installation, configuration, patching, hardening,
and version upgrades.
2. Administer enterprise virtualization and hypervisor platforms, including
host configuration, virtual machine provisioning, and storage, network,
and resource assignment.
3. Administer Kubernetes clusters supporting UISIM workloads through
node provisioning, component upgrades, and container platform
troubleshooting.
4. Configure and review privileged and administrative access controls,
coordinate elevated account requests with Agency database and
security staff, apply security baselines, and remediate vulnerability scan
findings.
5. Monitor system capacity, performance, and availability using Agency
tools, tune resources, and troubleshoot and resolve incidents and
service requests during scheduled work hours.
6. Implement and validate high-availability configurations (clustering,
failover, replication, backup/restore testing), write and maintain
automation and configuration management scripts, and execute
change requests within approved change windows.
7. Document root causes and corrective actions, while maintaining
comprehensive technical documentation including system diagrams,
operational procedures, and configuration records.
8. Support State technical staff through guidance and knowledge transfer
as directed by the State Project Manager, and participate in recurring
status meetings to report progress, risks, and issues to State
supervisory staff.
--- Required Qualifications ---
• 84 months of experience administering Windows Server operating systems in
an enterprise
• 84 months of experience administering Linux server operating systems, such
as Red Hat, Enterprise Linux, SUSE, or Ubuntu, in an enterprise environment,
including installation, configuration, patching, and version upgrades.
• 60 months of experience administering Kubernetes or an equivalent container
orchestration platform, including cluster provisioning, component upgrades,
and troubleshooting.
• 72 months of experience administering server operating systems hosted in a
public or private cloud environment, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web
Services, or Google Cloud Platform.
• 60 months of experience using enterprise monitoring and alerting tools to
track server
• 72 months of experience administering enterprise virtualization or hypervisor
platforms, such as VMware vSphere and ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox
VE, Nutanix AHV, or Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, including host
configuration, virtual machine provisioning, storage and network assignment,
and resource management.
• 72 months of experience implementing and maintaining high availability
configurations for server operating systems, including clustering, failover,
replication, or backup and restore.
• 72 months of experience configuring and administering privileged and
administrative access
• 60 months of experience using infrastructure automation or configuration
management tooling, such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, PowerShell,
or Bash, to provision or administer servers.
• 60 months of experience applying security baselines and remediating
vulnerability scan
MVP Consulting Plus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.