Cloud and Virtual Technical Lead for the Division of HPD Tech
Job Description
About the Agency:
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.
- We maintain building and resident safety and health
- We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
- We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.
HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.
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Your Team:
Housing Preservation & Development Technology (HPD Tech) is the IT division within HPD. The Office of HPD Tech leads the agency’s effort to transform HPD through technology by promoting productivity and eliminating manual processing, shrinking costs, and increasing the pace of work. HPD Tech works to improve effectiveness of business processes using core applications for flawless execution. HPD Tech empowers decision makers with access to quality (complete and accurate) information to anticipate and pro-actively react to building, neighborhood and market conditions.
The Office of HPDTech is composed of 7 units: CIO (Chief Information Office), CTO (Chief Technology Office), CPO (Chief Product Office), Budget, Enterprise Architecture, Planning & Compliance, and Information Security.
Your Impact:
As the Cloud and Virtual Technical Lead for the Division of HPD Tech, you will align technology with the Agency’s business needs by providing analysis, solutioning, application development and IT infrastructure services. We are seeking to augment the technology group with a person who will guide software development projects toward cloud platforms.
Your Role:
Your role will be to leverage analytical/problem solving skills with operational experience deploying on IaaS and PaaS platforms. Working closely with software development and architecture teams. You will be the main resource to enable HPD to have Cloud-Computing presence.
Your Responsibilities:
- Architect the Windows11 upgrade for all Telework Virtual PC’s in the agency.
- Expand the AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop) technology/environment to accommodate the upcoming teleworking for DC37 employee.
- Migrate HPD databases over to Cloud Computing.
- Review IT solutions proposals to identify opportunities where cloud hosting will yield best outcomes for performance/reliability, cost benefit, delivery time, and long-term management.
- Execute cloud resource provisioning tasks, performance monitoring and maintenance.
- Stay current on emerging cloud offerings and technologies.
Preferred Skills:
- Software development within the Microsoft stack (browser, mobile, cross-platform)
- Use of the MS Azure Dashboard to implement cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions.
- Datacenter operations including storage and server provisioning and management (physical/virtual);
- Cloud resource and scalability management.
- Infrastructure architecting.
- Technical Certifications: Professional certification in any IT discipline will be considered, but preference is given for the following: MSCA Cloud Platform, AWS Operations, Google Cloud, VMware Certified Professional
Qualifications
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position; or,
2. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" above.
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.
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Are you passionate about leading innovative cloud solutions in an essential sector? As the Cloud and Virtual Technical Lead for the Division of HPD Tech in New York City, you’ll play a pivotal role in transforming how we serve our communities. HPD Tech is on a mission to modernize the housing landscape, making it safer and more accessible for all New Yorkers. Your responsibilities will encompass architecting the Windows11 upgrade for telework PCs, expanding Azure Virtual Desktop solutions, and migrating databases to robust cloud platforms. You’ll collaborate closely with software development teams to ensure seamless application deployment and stay abreast of the latest cloud technologies to optimize operational efficiency. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and have a knack for scalable infrastructure management, this is the job for you! Plus, with the city investing in housing like never before, this is your chance to make a lasting impact while working for a cause that matters. Join us and help guide HPD’s cloud computing journey to better serve New Yorkers in need.
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