Senior DevOps Engineer at City of New York
Brooklyn, NY
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Aug 5, 2026
Brooklyn, NY
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior DevOps Engineer role within New York City's Office of Technology and Innovation, based in Brooklyn. The position centers on building and maintaining cloud and hybrid infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and security-integrated automation to support civic digital services at scale. The role also involves technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers, and prototyping AI/ML deployments.
Senior level · 4+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,800 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,350–2,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 6, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This posting is open to current New York City employees only — specifically those who are permanent in the civil service title 'Computer Systems Manager (1005D)' or reachable on the current civil service list. External candidates are not eligible.
The civil service title is 'Computer Systems Manager (1005D)', which maps closer to 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers), but the day-to-day responsibilities described are hands-on DevOps/infrastructure engineering (writing pipelines, building infrastructure-as-code, managing containers), making 15-1252 the better fit for the actual work performed. 15-1244 is listed as the runner-up given the operational infrastructure maintenance component.
The minimum experience requirement (4 years with a bachelor's degree, or 6 years with a high school diploma) is drawn from the civil service qualification standard; the posting does not state a separate role-level years requirement beyond this framework.
No salary or compensation range is published in this posting.
The responsibilities section lists tools with 'e.g.' or 'such as' framing (e.g., 'Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation'; 'Azure DevOps, GitHub'; monitoring tools). These are treated as hard gates on the capability with the named tools as interchangeable alternatives, per the requirements section context.
The AI/MCP prototyping responsibility (Model Context Protocol servers, AI model deployment) is mentioned as a duty but no specific AI/ML tools or frameworks are named, so no skill entry was created for it.
Work location is Brooklyn, NY; the role is on-site with potential overtime and varied shifts due to 24/7 operations.
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