Senior DevOps Engineer, Infrastucture at City of New York
Brooklyn, NY
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Jul 31, 2026
Brooklyn, NY
Nov 9, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Site Reliability / DevOps engineering role within New York City's Office of Technology and Innovation, based in Brooklyn. Day-to-day work involves monitoring CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes clusters, writing and maintaining scripts and infrastructure-as-code modules, validating deployments, and keeping runbooks and documentation current. The role operates under senior guidance and suits a mid-level engineer building depth in Linux, containers, and observability tooling within a 24/7 government infrastructure environment.
Mid level · 3+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
Posted 5 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,400 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 590–2,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 2, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
This posting is open to current NYC government employees only (permanent civil service title holders or those reachable on the civil service list); external candidates are not eligible.
The civil service title is 'Computer Systems Manager – 1005D', which carries a minimum qualification of 3 years of IT experience including 18 months in an administrative/managerial/supervisory capacity. Despite this managerial civil service title, the day-to-day responsibilities described are hands-on individual-contributor DevOps/SRE work performed under senior guidance — consistent with a mid-level practitioner, not a people manager.
The advertised title is 'Senior DevOps Engineer', but the described duties (triaging alerts under senior guidance, writing basic scripts, participating in design sessions rather than leading them) reflect a mid-level scope.
No compensation range is published in the posting.
The role is on-site in Brooklyn, NY, with potential overtime and off-hours shifts due to 24/7 operations.
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