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About the Role
Diverse Agile Solutions is seeking a Senior IT Specialist to support the New York State Department of Labor’s hybrid computing environment in Albany, New York. This role provides senior-level operating system and platform administration across Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes environments, supporting the UISIM system with a focus on reliable operations, security, and high availability.
Responsibilities
- Administer Windows Server and Linux operating systems across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud-hosted environments, including installation, configuration, patching, hardening, and version upgrades.
- Manage enterprise virtualization and hypervisor platforms, including host configuration, virtual machine provisioning, and storage, network, and resource assignment.
- Administer Kubernetes clusters supporting UISIM workloads, including 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 resolve incidents and service requests during scheduled work hours.
- Implement and validate high-availability configurations, including clustering, failover, replication, and backup and restore testing.
- Write and maintain automation and configuration management scripts, and execute change requests within approved change windows.
- Document root causes and corrective actions and maintain technical documentation, including system diagrams, operational procedures, and configuration records.
- Provide guidance and knowledge transfer to State technical staff as directed by the State Project Manager, and participate in recurring status meetings to report progress, risks, and issues to State supervisory staff.
Requirements
- 60–84 months of relevant experience.
- Ability to work independently without assistance.
- Ability to provide guidance to others.
- May have advanced education.
Skills
- Windows Server administration
- Linux administration
- Kubernetes administration
- Enterprise virtualization and hypervisor platform management
- Privileged and administrative access control configuration
- Security baseline application
- Vulnerability remediation
- System capacity, performance, and availability monitoring
- High-availability configuration implementation
- Automation and configuration management scripting
- Technical documentation maintenance
- Knowledge transfer
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- Ansible
- Puppet
- Chef
- Terraform
- PowerShell
- Bash
- VMware vSphere/ESXi
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Proxmox VE
- Nutanix AHV
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Location
- Albany, New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Contract
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $26.80–$28.50 per hour