Senior Manager Network Architecture And Engineering

The New York City Housing Authority Information Technology (NYCHA IT) Department is seeking a motivated, talented, and highly skilled candidate to serve as Senior Manager and lead a new team focused on Network Architecture and Engineering. This individual should have a solid understanding of core network architecture and familiarity with industry best practices for routing and switching design within a large complex network. The size of NYCHA's public-facing Internet and supporting environment has grown considerably and will continue to increase significantly in size and complexity. NYCHA is actively introducing new applications as well as incorporating cloud-based solutions into the NYCHA network environment. The Senior Manager for Network Architecture and Engineering will contribute to the development and execution of the enterprise-wide network strategy. The Senior Manager is responsible for ensuring network technology at NYCHA remains secure, scalable, sustainable, and resilient to support NYCHA business operations. Under direction of the Director of Network and Telecomm, with latitude for independent judgement, responsibilities for the Senior Manager will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Analyze, design, implement, document, and monitor network infrastructure to maximize performance and capacity; ensure security and availability of data.
• Develop and maintain up to date network architecture documentation for enterprise, business, security and other related IT solutions, concepts, and strategies to meet business requirements.
• Define and maintain the methodology, principles, roadmap, standards, and guidelines for the network architecture team for security, reuse, interoperability, and integration.
• Ensure and maintain compliance with architecture standards and guidelines throughout the application development lifecycle.
• Work closely with NYCHA Enterprise Solutions Management teams as a solutions architect aligning with the overall enterprise engineering/architecture vision. Establish secure and industry compliant specifications for new network solutions.
• Serve as Network Subject Matter Expert for new technologies, trends, and upgrades to ensure NYCHA and its network engineers are up to date on newer technologies.
• Analyze and make recommendations regarding the possibility of optimizing and enhancing existing functionalities.
• Assist in the development and review of technical specifications for the procurement of IT systems and services, including the evaluation of vendor submissions solicited via bids, requests for information and proposals. Liaise with IT vendors, as necessary.
• Execute special projects and initiatives, as assigned.

Additional Information

1. NYCHA employees applying for transfer, promotion, title or level change opportunities must have served a period of one year at current location and in current title and level (if applicable).

2. NYCHA residents are encouraged to apply.

3. NYCHA provides benefits that include a choice of medical coverage plans, deferred compensation plans and a defined pension benefit plan as a member of the New York City Employees' Retirement System (NYCERS). Please read this posting carefully to make certain you meet the minimum qualification requirements before applying to this position.

IT Infrastructure Engineer - 95714

Minimum Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering or a related field and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to datacenter engineering and operations, cloud engineering and operations, complex IT infrastructure engineering; or, 2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to datacenter engineering and operations, cloud engineering and operations, complex IT infrastructure engineering; or, 3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above.

Preferred Skills

- At least eight (8) years of satisfactory full-time experience related to large complex enterprise-level network architecture, network solutioning, and IT infrastructure systems.

- Extensive architecture-level experience in designing, installing, configuring, managing, and supporting network technology platforms and security network appliances.

- Ability to acquire new skills in a diverse changing complex environment.

- Solid understanding of advanced networking technologies and virtualization technologies, and solutions including MPLS, load balancing, VPN tunnels, etc.

- Experience with enterprise data center architectures, Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, Checkpoint, Cisco ISE, F5, Netscaler, AVI load balancers, Cloud networking, Azure, IPSEC/VPN.

- Knowledge and understanding of technologies/architectures including: SD-WAN, network segmentation, TACACS, RADIUS.

- Hands-on experience working with various cloud vendors a plus.

- Experience with SIP or cloud-based UC solutions.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.