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Job Description

APPLICANTS MUST BE PERMANENT IN THE COMPUTER SPECIALIST (SOFTWARE) CIVIL SERVICE TITLE.

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)/Office of Enterprise Networking Technology/UNIX Infrastructure is recruiting for one (1) Computer Specialist (SW) IV, to function as a UNIX/LINUX System Administrator, who will:

- Work on daily UNIX/Linux Infrastructure requests from HRA DSS/DHS users through the agency’s
Service Now system; review the requests and incidents tickets within the UNIX Infrastructure
group as well as with the users; attend the Service Now conferences for the requests’ approval and
implement the changes after they have been approved. Review daily Enterprise Server activity
reports.

- Monitor and maintain the health of 800+ large-scale enterprise servers including Solaris LDOMs,
Zones,Power LPARs, Red Hat Enterprise Virtual servers, and Oracle/IBM hardware appliance,
AWS EC2 instances,KVM, OpenShift, Kubernetes, container environments. Setup system policies
for server hardware and software configuration on UNIX/Linux servers and AWS instances.

- Troubleshoot hardware failures, operating system errors, network connection issues, database
errors, application errors, security issues, write scripts for system automation, work with various
application groups, other system administrators, and hardware/software vendors to resolve server
issues, replace defected devices for the entire enterprise server infrastructure.

- Perform the installation, configuration, implementation and upgrade of hardware and software in the
UNIX/Linux/AWS/Azure/container environments.

- Perform the tuning based on observability tools such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Pager Duty, and
Turbonomics.

- Participate in the evaluation, design, and planning of modernized datacenter solutions on-prem and
in cloud environment.


Hours/Shift:
Normal Business Hours

COMPUTER SPECIALIST (SOFTWARE) - 13632

Qualifications

(1) A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, including or supplemented by twenty-four (24) semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and two (2) years of satisfactory full-time software experience in designing, programming, debugging, maintaining, implementing, and enhancing computer software applications, systems programming, systems analysis and design, data communication software, or database design and programming, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(2) A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six (6) years of full-time satisfactory software experience as described in “1" above, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(3) A satisfactory combination of education and experience that is equivalent to (1) or (2) above. College education may be substituted for up to two years of the required experience in (2) above on the basis that sixty (60) semester credits from an accredited college is equated to one year of experience. A masters degree in computer science or a related computer field may be substituted for one year of the required experience in (1) or (2) above. However, all candidates must have a four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, plus at least one (1) year of satisfactory full-time software experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project.
NOTE: In order to have your experience accepted as Project Leader or Major Contributor experience, you must explain in detail how your experience qualifies you as a project leader or as a major contributor. Experience in computer operations, technical support, quality assurance (QA), hardware installation, help desk, or as an end user will not be accepted for meeting the minimum qualification
requirements.
Special Note
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level IV, in addition to the Qualification Requirements stated above, individuals must have one year of satisfactory experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project in data administration, database management systems, operating systems, data communications systems, capacity planning, and/or on-line applications programming.

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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Our Mission To work to eliminate ageism and ensure the dignity and quality-of-life of New York City’s diverse older adults, and for the support of their caregivers through service, advocacy, and education. Strategic Goals To foster independence...

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