HBITS-08-15059-IT Specialist-Senior

Knowledge Builders Inc; City of Albany (NY); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Knowledge Builders Inc. is seeking a Senior IT Specialist to administer Windows Server, Linux, and Kubernetes in a hybrid environment for NY State Department of Labor’s UISIM project.

The role focuses on operational support, high availability, and automation across on‑premises and cloud platforms. The position requires extensive enterprise-level experience with Windows and Linux, Kubernetes, cloud deployments, and security hardening.

Qualifications

• 84 months of experience administering Windows Server in an enterprise environment.
• 84 months of experience administering Linux server operating systems in an enterprise environment (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.).
• 60 months of experience administering Kubernetes or an equivalent container orchestration platform.
• 72 months of experience administering servers in a public or private cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• 72 months of experience implementing high availability configurations (clustering, failover, replication, backup/restore).
• 72 months of experience configuring privileged and administrative access.
• 60 months of experience using infrastructure automation/configuration tooling (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, PowerShell, Bash).
• 60 months of experience applying security baselines and remediating vulnerability scans.
• 60 months of experience using enterprise monitoring/alerting tools.

Responsabilités

• Perform hands-on administration of Windows Server and Linux operating systems across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments.
• Administer enterprise virtualization and hypervisor platforms, including host configuration, VM provisioning, and storage/network/resource assignment.
• Administer Kubernetes clusters supporting UISIM workloads through node provisioning, component upgrades, and container platform troubleshooting.
• Configure and review privileged and administrative access controls, coordinate elevated account requests with Agency security staff, apply security baselines, remediate vulnerability findings.
• Monitor system capacity, performance, and availability using Agency tools, tune resources, and troubleshoot incidents and service requests during scheduled hours.
• Implement and validate high-availability configurations (clustering, failover, replication, backup/restore testing), write automation scripts, and execute change requests within change windows.
• Support State technical staff through guidance and knowledge transfer and report progress/risks in status meetings.

Connaissances

Windows Server

Linux

Kubernetes

VMware vSphere

Cloud platforms

Automation scripting

Security hardening

Incident response

Monitoring

Change management

Outils

PowerShell

Bash

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet

Terraform

Description du poste

Job Description

Project/Program:

Unemployment Insurance System Improvement Modernization (UISIM) HBITS Post Go-Live.

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

Daily Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• 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.
• Administer enterprise virtualization and hypervisor platforms, including host configuration, virtual machine provisioning, and storage, network, and resource assignment.
• Administer Kubernetes clusters supporting UISIM workloads through node provisioning, component upgrades, and container platform troubleshooting.
• 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.
• Monitor system capacity, performance, and availability using Agency tools, tune resources, and troubleshoot and resolve incidents and service requests during scheduled work hours.
• 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.
• 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.

Mandatory Qualifications

IT Specialist–

Works in the field of Information Technology, experienced in the usage and support of a collection of development platforms, technical architectures or business applications and products that run on those platforms - beyond that of a Programmer.

Senior

60 - 84 months: Candidate is able to work independently, without assistance and provides guidance to others. May have an advanced education.

Requested 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.
• 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.
• 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.

We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military/veteran status, or any other protected basis.