CLOUD DEVOPS AND APPLICATION MIGRATION ENGINEER

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

City of New York seeks an IT Infrastructure Engineer to function as a Cloud DevOps and Application Migration Engineer. The role focuses on assessing architectures, creating migration plans, and driving cloud readiness across multiple systems.

The position requires a CS/engineering degree and several years in datacenter or cloud operations, with strong CI/CD and collaboration skills. Normal hours are 9:00am–5:00pm, on-site at NYC ITS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field and four years of experience in datacenter/cloud engineering.
• Experience with cloud migration and modernization approaches.
• Ability to design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automation across cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Assess application architecture, dependencies, data flows, and security requirements for cloud migration or modernization.
• Collaborate with analysts, owners, developers, and vendors to define migration requirements and close gaps.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins for cloud deployments.
• Assist teams in modernizing legacy .NET, Java, and API components for cloud readiness.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, alerts, and dashboards using cloud-native/enterprise tools.
• Coordinate migration activities across teams and vendors to manage dependencies and risks.
• Provide technical guidance on cloud deployment processes, pipelines, and container practices.

Skills

Cloud migration

DevOps collaboration

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Job description

CLOUD DEVOPS AND APPLICATION MIGRATION ENGINEER

• Full-time
• Agency: HRA/DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
• Salary Band: $100,000 to $125,000
• Compensation: USD 75,000 - USD 120,000

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

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.

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.

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