Senior DevOps Engineer for Civic Tech & AI POCs

City of New York; Brooklyn (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

City of New York’s Office of Technology and Innovation seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to modernize, scale, and secure critical digital backend systems in Brooklyn. You will bridge development and operations, automate core processes, and ensure reliable civic tech delivery for millions of New Yorkers and thousands of businesses.

You will design cloud/hybrid infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, manage containerized services, and implement comprehensive monitoring and security across

Qualifications

• Master's degree with 3 years IT experience in applications development or systems development.
• Bachelor's degree with 4 years IT experience as described above.
• High school diploma with 6 years IT experience; some supervisory experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or GitHub for secure deployments.
• Architect containerized environments using Docker and cloud services (ECS, EKS, AKS).
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting (Dynatrace, Elastic, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor).
• Develop pipelines for security scanning and vulnerability management.
• Lead automated provisioning, patching, and upgrades of cloud databases and apps.
• Maintain configurations, secrets, and certificates.
• Collaborate with software, security, and product teams to foster DevOps culture and mentor junior engineers.
• Drive rapid prototyping of AI models and MCP servers for POCs.

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Four-year high school diploma with IT experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Docker

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

Azure AKS

Dynatrace

Elastic

Grafana

CloudWatch

Azure Monitor

ScienceLogic

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Job description

City of New York’s Office of Technology and Innovation seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to modernize, scale, and secure critical digital backend systems in Brooklyn. You will bridge development and operations, automate core processes, and ensure reliable civic tech delivery for millions of New Yorkers and thousands of businesses.

You will design cloud/hybrid infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, manage containerized services, and implement comprehensive monitoring and security across