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Make a difference in the community you live in! As a Community Builder-an employee with the City of Gainesville- you will have a direct hand in building and improving your community and making a visible impact on the lives of your neighbors. Working for local government is more than a job, it's a chance to contribute to community success and to help enhance the Gainesville way of life.
Department:
9620 GRU - IT Technical Management
Salary Range Minimum:
$103,640.00
Salary Range Maximum:
$159,346.50
Closing Date:
04/19/2024
Job Details:
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Infrastructure Designer and Administrator Lead to join our dynamic Cloud team. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and administration of our on premise data center virtualization (VMware) and hardware, server and system architecture, and multi-cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP). This is a supervisory position that requires strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and a passion for driving innovation.
Salary range: $103,640 to $117,566.63 with additional benefits and training opportunities.
Responsibilities:
-Lead the design and architecture of on premise data center virtualization (VMware) and hardware (enclosures, compute, SANs, DC networking (ACI)).
-Design, implement, and manage server and system infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and scalability.
-Develop and maintain infrastructure automation and orchestration solutions to streamline deployment and management processes (Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker).
-Provide technical leadership and guidance to the infrastructure team, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards (ITIL, COBIT).
-Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions that meet business requirements and align with strategic objectives (DevOps).
-Evaluate emerging technologies and make recommendations for adoption to enhance infrastructure capabilities and budgeting.
-Manage and optimize multi-cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP) to support diverse workloads and applications utilizing IaC principals (Terraform, Azure DevOps, Git).
-Ensure compliance with security policies, procedures, and regulations to protect the integrity and confidentiality of data.
-Participate in on-call escalation rotation and provide management of resolution for infrastructure-related issues.
Required certifications (to be achieved within 9 months of employment):
-Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate (MCAAA)
-VMware Certified Professional - Virtual Data Center (VCP-VDC)
-IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
-DevOps Foundation
Preferred Certifications:
-AWS Solution Architect (ASA)
-HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
-Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
-Project+
-Linux+
Experience with similar technologies and certifications is a plus and will be considered for a successful candidates.
If you are a motivated and talented individual with a passion for infrastructure design and administration, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to lead our Cloud team at Gainesville Regional Utilities. Join us in making a positive impact on our community through innovation and excellence in service delivery.
Job Description:
This is a lead senior level position that performs advanced, complex technical work in the public sector and utility industry. It involves a broad range of professional activities in support of a highly automated, multi-site enterprise computing environment for government, business and 24/7 control applications. There is an emphasis on team-oriented system architecture, planning and design within an ITIL framework. Work is performed remotely and on-site in a secured, regulated and audited environment.
Work requires broad information technology skills and specialization in at least three of the following technical areas: networks, server, storage, database management, security, data center implementation and disaster recovery, multi-tier enterprise application architectures, or client infrastructure.
Incumbents in this classification report to a designated manager and work under general direction. Work in this class is distinguished from higher classes by its lack of managerial responsibility, and from lower classes by its supervisory and team leadership responsibility, and by the highest degree of expert technical skills for planning, design and administration.
Preferred skills, experience, and certifications with, but not limited to, the following areas
EXAMPLES OF WORK**
** This section of the job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities of the position. The omission of a specific job function does not absolve an employee from being required to perform additional tasks incidental to or inherent in the job. Performance of lower level duties may be required.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Depending on area of assignment, incumbents will be responsible for leading, supervising and executing three or more of the following areas:
Data Center
Design, implement, administer, and monitor the efficient use of the data center floor space, rack space, power consumption, heat output, HVAC controls, environmental alarms, security access, cable management, disaster prevention and safety features with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment; conducting or participating in the annual data center disaster prevention, security, safety, and disaster response training.
Network
Design, implement, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot the efficient and secure use of the in-house LAN, WAN, Wireless LAN, VoIP, and Video Conferencing IP networks using servers, routers, switches, VLANs, and other hardware to ensure stable operations, system connectivity, remote (VPN, DMZ, Certificate, PKI) access, security breach protection in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as change management, preventative maintenance, and access control, and NERC-CIP Critical Cyber Assets requirements.
Servers
Design, implement, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot a complex enterprise-level hybrid cloud and on premise physical and virtual server environment consisting of hardware, operating systems, back-office/middleware applications in multiple tiers from sandbox to production in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as change management, preventative maintenance, and access control.
Storage
Design, implement, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot a complex enterprise-level storage environment consisting of local and centralized (SAN) storage technology, data replication, data archiving, and backup/recovery systems in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as storage allocation, data protection, change management, preventative maintenance, and access control.
Database Administration
Design, implement, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot a complex enterprise-level database environment at the physical and logical level, and to a lesser degree the application level, particularly using Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as storage allocation, data protection, change management, preventative maintenance, and access control.
Applications
Design, implement, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot a complex enterprise-level mission-critical application server, storage and network environment in multiple tiers from sandbox to production in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as change management, preventative maintenance, and access control.
Clients
Design, implement, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot a complex enterprise-level physical and virtual client environment consisting of hardware, operating systems, front-office applications in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as change management, preventative maintenance, and access control.
Disaster/Recovery
Design and implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery to ensure effective protection and integrity of system and data assets, including operating systems, databases, network connections and protocols, servers, and software applications. Develop and modify plans based on results of tests or incidents.
Develop and periodically conduct simulations to test system disruptions and disaster recovery plans and procedures, disaster avoidance and impact reduction strategies for the security and restoration of mission-critical business applications in the event of natural disasters, technical failures, power outages, and human or cyber interference.
Manage and coordinate all aspects of actual recovery plan efforts, including initial emergency response, recovery procedures, and business resumption processes.
Security
Conduct risk assessments and business impact analyses to identify vulnerable areas within the organization's critical functions.
Develop, implement, maintain, and oversee enforcement of policies, procedures, technologies, and associated plans for infrastructure security.
Assess need for any security reconfigurations (minor or significant) and execute them if required. Keep current with emerging security alerts and issues.
Administer and maintain end user accounts, permissions, and access rights.
Create, maintain, remove and audit system and end user accounts, permissions, and access rights.
Design, perform, and oversee penetration testing of all systems in order to identify system vulnerabilities.
Recommend, schedule, and apply fixes, security patches, disaster recovery procedures, and any other measures required in the event of a security breach.
Plan, design, implement, and maintain all security systems and their corresponding or associated software, including firewalls, VPN, intrusion detection systems, cryptography systems, biometrics, anti-virus software, and all client and server security activities.
Develop and communicate IT security policies and procedures, including those for end users, network procedures, and legal/regulatory compliance.
Recommend and assist with deployment of additional security products and tools, or enhancements to existing tools, to detect violations of infrastructure security measures.
General
Participate in various IT work activities such as feasibility studies, capacity planning, performance analysis and fine-tuning, new technology evaluation, new systems and applications technical requirements specifications and review, and act as a project lead on technical IT infrastructure projects.
Provide business hour technical support for escalated client-side and server-side hardware, software, security and network issues in a timely and customer-friendly manner.
Provide after hours, on call technical support for all server-side hardware, software, security, and relevant network issues in a timely manner - usually on a rotating schedule.
Provide after hours and weekend work for changes that must occur outside of business hours.
Support other IT teams throughout project, system, and application lifecycles.
Act as project lead in the design and review of new server systems, applications, and hardware; conduct capacity planning as needed.
Work within an ITIL framework for service delivery and continuous improvement.
Write and maintain technical documentation.
Attend work on a continuous and regular basis.
NON-ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Develop and maintain training materials for educating end users and new IT staff.
Conduct research on emerging products, services, protocols, and standards in support of infrastructure procurement, enhancements and development efforts.
Perform cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses for proposed infrastructure components to aid management in making implementation decisions.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. Below are the required education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in Computer Science with major course work in operating systems, computer architecture, data structures, programming, database management, networking and security, or an equivalent program acceptable to management, and eight (8) years information technology experience including four (4) years as a systems programmer, network administrator, or equivalent and one (1) year as either a supervisor or team leader, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience which provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
MCSA Cloud, MCSE Cloud, MCSE Data, CCNA Routing and Switching, or CCNP Routing and Switching certifications or equivalents may be substituted for one (1) year of education. Proj...
Make a difference in the community you live in! As a Community Builder-an employee with the City of Gainesville- you will have a direct hand in building and improving your community and making a visible impact on the lives of your neighbors. Working for local government is more than a job, it's a chance to contribute to community success and to help enhance the Gainesville way of life.
Department:
9620 GRU - IT Technical Management
Salary Range Minimum:
$103,640.00
Salary Range Maximum:
$159,346.50
Closing Date:
04/19/2024
Job Details:
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Infrastructure Designer and Administrator Lead to join our dynamic Cloud team. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and administration of our on premise data center virtualization (VMware) and hardware, server and system architecture, and multi-cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP). This is a supervisory position that requires strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and a passion for driving innovation.
Salary range: $103,640 to $117,566.63 with additional benefits and training opportunities.
Responsibilities:
-Lead the design and architecture of on premise data center virtualization (VMware) and hardware (enclosures, compute, SANs, DC networking (ACI)).
-Design, implement, and manage server and system infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and scalability.
-Develop and maintain infrastructure automation and orchestration solutions to streamline deployment and management processes (Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker).
-Provide technical leadership and guidance to the infrastructure team, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards (ITIL, COBIT).
-Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions that meet business requirements and align with strategic objectives (DevOps).
-Evaluate emerging technologies and make recommendations for adoption to enhance infrastructure capabilities and budgeting.
-Manage and optimize multi-cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP) to support diverse workloads and applications utilizing IaC principals (Terraform, Azure DevOps, Git).
-Ensure compliance with security policies, procedures, and regulations to protect the integrity and confidentiality of data.
-Participate in on-call escalation rotation and provide management of resolution for infrastructure-related issues.
Required certifications (to be achieved within 9 months of employment):
-Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate (MCAAA)
-VMware Certified Professional - Virtual Data Center (VCP-VDC)
-IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
-DevOps Foundation
Preferred Certifications:
-AWS Solution Architect (ASA)
-HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
-Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
-Project+
-Linux+
Experience with similar technologies and certifications is a plus and will be considered for a successful candidates.
If you are a motivated and talented individual with a passion for infrastructure design and administration, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to lead our Cloud team at Gainesville Regional Utilities. Join us in making a positive impact on our community through innovation and excellence in service delivery.
Job Description:
This is a lead senior level position that performs advanced, complex technical work in the public sector and utility industry. It involves a broad range of professional activities in support of a highly automated, multi-site enterprise computing environment for government, business and 24/7 control applications. There is an emphasis on team-oriented system architecture, planning and design within an ITIL framework. Work is performed remotely and on-site in a secured, regulated and audited environment.
Work requires broad information technology skills and specialization in at least three of the following technical areas: networks, server, storage, database management, security, data center implementation and disaster recovery, multi-tier enterprise application architectures, or client infrastructure.
Incumbents in this classification report to a designated manager and work under general direction. Work in this class is distinguished from higher classes by its lack of managerial responsibility, and from lower classes by its supervisory and team leadership responsibility, and by the highest degree of expert technical skills for planning, design and administration.
Preferred skills, experience, and certifications with, but not limited to, the following areas
- Windows Server ecosystem, including Windows Server 2003 through 2019
- Windows Active Directory and Group Policies
- Windows DNS and DHCP
- VMWare Virtualization using ESX and vCenter
- HPE Servers, c7000 Blade and Synergy Environments
- HPE Storage Arrays
- Nagios and Grafana Monitoring Software
- Veeam Backup and Restore Software
- Azure Implementation. Including using Bicep, Blueprint, and Powershell for CI/CD, Tenant Management (Comparable AWS experience will be considered)
- Office/Microsoft 365 - Azure Active Directory, Exchange Online, Etc.
- Knowledge in DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban Frameworks
- Datacenter management (Racks, Batteries, Cooling, etc.)
- Change Management
- Supervisory Experience
- Scripting and/or Programming experience
EXAMPLES OF WORK**
** This section of the job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities of the position. The omission of a specific job function does not absolve an employee from being required to perform additional tasks incidental to or inherent in the job. Performance of lower level duties may be required.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Depending on area of assignment, incumbents will be responsible for leading, supervising and executing three or more of the following areas:
Data Center
Design, implement, administer, and monitor the efficient use of the data center floor space, rack space, power consumption, heat output, HVAC controls, environmental alarms, security access, cable management, disaster prevention and safety features with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment; conducting or participating in the annual data center disaster prevention, security, safety, and disaster response training.
Network
Design, implement, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot the efficient and secure use of the in-house LAN, WAN, Wireless LAN, VoIP, and Video Conferencing IP networks using servers, routers, switches, VLANs, and other hardware to ensure stable operations, system connectivity, remote (VPN, DMZ, Certificate, PKI) access, security breach protection in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as change management, preventative maintenance, and access control, and NERC-CIP Critical Cyber Assets requirements.
Servers
Design, implement, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot a complex enterprise-level hybrid cloud and on premise physical and virtual server environment consisting of hardware, operating systems, back-office/middleware applications in multiple tiers from sandbox to production in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as change management, preventative maintenance, and access control.
Storage
Design, implement, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot a complex enterprise-level storage environment consisting of local and centralized (SAN) storage technology, data replication, data archiving, and backup/recovery systems in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as storage allocation, data protection, change management, preventative maintenance, and access control.
Database Administration
Design, implement, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot a complex enterprise-level database environment at the physical and logical level, and to a lesser degree the application level, particularly using Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as storage allocation, data protection, change management, preventative maintenance, and access control.
Applications
Design, implement, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot a complex enterprise-level mission-critical application server, storage and network environment in multiple tiers from sandbox to production in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as change management, preventative maintenance, and access control.
Clients
Design, implement, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot a complex enterprise-level physical and virtual client environment consisting of hardware, operating systems, front-office applications in conformance with established practices for an auditable enterprise-level IT environment for such activities as change management, preventative maintenance, and access control.
Disaster/Recovery
Design and implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery to ensure effective protection and integrity of system and data assets, including operating systems, databases, network connections and protocols, servers, and software applications. Develop and modify plans based on results of tests or incidents.
Develop and periodically conduct simulations to test system disruptions and disaster recovery plans and procedures, disaster avoidance and impact reduction strategies for the security and restoration of mission-critical business applications in the event of natural disasters, technical failures, power outages, and human or cyber interference.
Manage and coordinate all aspects of actual recovery plan efforts, including initial emergency response, recovery procedures, and business resumption processes.
Security
Conduct risk assessments and business impact analyses to identify vulnerable areas within the organization's critical functions.
Develop, implement, maintain, and oversee enforcement of policies, procedures, technologies, and associated plans for infrastructure security.
Assess need for any security reconfigurations (minor or significant) and execute them if required. Keep current with emerging security alerts and issues.
Administer and maintain end user accounts, permissions, and access rights.
Create, maintain, remove and audit system and end user accounts, permissions, and access rights.
Design, perform, and oversee penetration testing of all systems in order to identify system vulnerabilities.
Recommend, schedule, and apply fixes, security patches, disaster recovery procedures, and any other measures required in the event of a security breach.
Plan, design, implement, and maintain all security systems and their corresponding or associated software, including firewalls, VPN, intrusion detection systems, cryptography systems, biometrics, anti-virus software, and all client and server security activities.
Develop and communicate IT security policies and procedures, including those for end users, network procedures, and legal/regulatory compliance.
Recommend and assist with deployment of additional security products and tools, or enhancements to existing tools, to detect violations of infrastructure security measures.
General
Participate in various IT work activities such as feasibility studies, capacity planning, performance analysis and fine-tuning, new technology evaluation, new systems and applications technical requirements specifications and review, and act as a project lead on technical IT infrastructure projects.
Provide business hour technical support for escalated client-side and server-side hardware, software, security and network issues in a timely and customer-friendly manner.
Provide after hours, on call technical support for all server-side hardware, software, security, and relevant network issues in a timely manner - usually on a rotating schedule.
Provide after hours and weekend work for changes that must occur outside of business hours.
Support other IT teams throughout project, system, and application lifecycles.
Act as project lead in the design and review of new server systems, applications, and hardware; conduct capacity planning as needed.
Work within an ITIL framework for service delivery and continuous improvement.
Write and maintain technical documentation.
Attend work on a continuous and regular basis.
NON-ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Develop and maintain training materials for educating end users and new IT staff.
Conduct research on emerging products, services, protocols, and standards in support of infrastructure procurement, enhancements and development efforts.
Perform cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses for proposed infrastructure components to aid management in making implementation decisions.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. Below are the required education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in Computer Science with major course work in operating systems, computer architecture, data structures, programming, database management, networking and security, or an equivalent program acceptable to management, and eight (8) years information technology experience including four (4) years as a systems programmer, network administrator, or equivalent and one (1) year as either a supervisor or team leader, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience which provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
MCSA Cloud, MCSE Cloud, MCSE Data, CCNA Routing and Switching, or CCNP Routing and Switching certifications or equivalents may be substituted for one (1) year of education. Proj...
