Unix Middleware Engineer — Cloud, CI/CD & AWS Automation

Cityofnewyork; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

City of New York’s Information Technology Services (ITS) is seeking a Unix Middleware Engineer as an IT Project Specialist. The role focuses on automation, cloud migration, identity management, and building high-availability containerized environments for enterprise applications.

You will implement CI/CD with Jenkins, Git, and Java; design container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift), write Ansible playbooks, and manage AWS resources (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, Route53, VPC) with security

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent with related work experience as specified.
• Alternate pathways include an Associate degree with extensive relevant experience.
• Additional education/experience that matches the requirements is acceptable.
• Experience must align with technology, processes, and domain requirements.

Responsibilities

• Oversee complex infrastructure automation, cloud migration, and identity management.
• Lead design and maintenance of high-availability containerized environments and middleware stacks.
• Develop and implement CI/CD strategies using Jenkins, Git, and Java; design container systems and orchestration.
• Conduct code reviews and specify hardware, storage, and software configurations for containers.
• Write Ansible playbooks for deployment and integrate with Jenkins for CD workflows.
• Manage AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, Route53, VPC) and security groups; maintain infrastructure with Jenkins and AWS tools.
• Develop observability and monitoring with Splunk and AppDynamics; design dashboards for logs.

Education

Baccalaureate degree in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field

Associate degree in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field

Baccalaureate degree with eight years of related experience

Education and/or experience equivalent to above

Tools

Jenkins

Red Hat Linux

Git

Java

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Ansible

AWS

EC2

RDS

S3

IAM

Route53

VPC

Splunk

AppDynamics

Job description

City of New York’s Information Technology Services (ITS) is seeking a Unix Middleware Engineer as an IT Project Specialist. The role focuses on automation, cloud migration, identity management, and building high-availability containerized environments for enterprise applications.

You will implement CI/CD with Jenkins, Git, and Java; design container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift), write Ansible playbooks, and manage AWS resources (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, Route53, VPC) with security