IT Specialist - Windows / Linux / Cloud

HBITS

HBITS-08-15060 EXEC

Senior, IT Specialist

30 month contract

Interview

In-person

Work model

50% telecommuting, 50% Office per week in Albany, NY

--- Project Description ---

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 ---

• 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.

• Document root causes and corrective actions, while maintaining

comprehensive technical documentation including system diagrams,

operational procedures, and configuration records.

• 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.

--- Required Qualifications ---

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

MVP Consulting Plus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.