CLOUD DEVOPS AND APPLICATION MIGRATION ENGINEER

HRA/DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of New York Information Technology Services (ITS) is seeking an IT Infrastructure Engineer to act as a Cloud DevOps and Application Migration Engineer. You will assess architecture, drive cloud migrations, and build robust CI/CD pipelines across teams.

Ideal candidates have strong cloud experience (AWS/Azure), hands-on skills with GitHub Actions, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes, and a focus on security, monitoring, and deployment governance. NYC residency not required.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field and 4+ years of full-time IT infrastructure experience; or 8+ years alternative.
• Experience migrating and modernizing enterprise apps in AWS/Azure environments.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, automation, and cloud-native monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Assess architecture, dependencies, data flows, and security for cloud migration or modernization.
• Collaborate with analysts, owners, developers, infra teams, and vendors to define migration requirements.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and related automation.
• Assist teams in modernizing legacy .NET, Java, and API components for cloud readiness.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboards for operations visibility.
• Coordinate migration activities across teams and stakeholders to manage dependencies and risks.
• Provide guidance on cloud deployment processes, pipelines, containers, observability, and issue resolution.

Skills

Cloud migrations

DevSecOps

CI/CD pipelines

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The Department of Social Services (DSS) is comprised of the administrative units of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). HRA is dedicated to fighting poverty and income inequality by providing New Yorkers in need with essential benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance. DHS is committed to preventing and addressing homelessness in New York City by employing a variety of innovative strategies to help families and individuals successfully exit shelter and return to self-sufficiency as quickly as possible.

Information Technology Services (ITS) is DSS’s technology services organization. ITS mission is to support the daily, emergent, and long-term needs of both agencies. ITS creates and enhances the technology infrastructure and computer applications that support HRA and DHS and develops applications, including a variety of client eligibility and recertification systems, case management systems, housing systems, employment/work engagement services, revenue producing computer matches, claiming systems, and personnel systems.

Information Technology Services (ITS) is recruiting for one (1) IT Infrastructure Engineer, to function as Cloud DevOps and Application Migration Engineer, who will:

• Assess, application architecture, dependencies, interfaces, data flows, technical debt, security requirements, and operational constraints in order to recommend appropriate cloud migration or modernization approaches.
• Collaborate with business analysts, application owners, developers, infrastructure teams, and vendors to define functional and technical migration requirements and resolve application readiness gaps.
• Design, build, and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and related automation platforms in order to standardize application deployment to cloud environments.
• Assist teams in modernizing legacy .NET, Java, API, and related application components by recommending refactoring, configuration, dependency, and deployment changes needed for cloud readiness.
• Implement application monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboard capabilities using cloud-native and enterprise monitoring platforms in order to support operational visibility and incident response.
• Coordinate application migration activities with development teams, Infrastructure and Operations, security teams, vendors, and project stakeholders in order to manage dependencies, risks, decisions, and implementation status.
• Provide technical guidance to application teams on cloud deployment processes, pipeline usage, container practices, observability, and migration issue resolution.

Hours/Shift:

9:00am-5:00pm

IT INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER - 95714

Minimum Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering or a related field and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to datacenter engineering and operations, cloud engineering and operations, complex IT infrastructure engineering; or,

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to datacenter engineering and operations, cloud engineering and operations, complex IT infrastructure engineering; or,

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

Preferred Skills

• Experience migrating and modernizing enterprise applications in AWS and Azure environments.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and scripting or automation tools.
• Experience with .NET, Java, APIs, serverless computing, managed cloud services, application observability, and performance tuning.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps practices, release management, secrets management, automated testing, security scanning, and deployment governance.
• Ability to collaborate with application development, infrastructure, security, vendor, and business teams during complex migration waves.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

Residency Requirement

New York City Residency is not required for this position

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.