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City of Gainesville

Infrastructure Designer and Administrator Lead for IT (Infrastructure/Cloud)

City of Gainesville, Gainesville, Florida, us, 32635


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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 ManagementSalary Range Minimum:

$103,640.00Salary Range Maximum:

$159,346.50Closing Date:

09/02/2024Job Details:

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Infrastructure Designer and Administrator Lead to join our dynamic Infrastructure team. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and administration of our on-premise data center virtualization and hardware, server and system architecture, and multi-cloud environments. This is a supervisory position that requires strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and a passion for driving innovation.Responsibilities:Lead the design and architecture of on-premise data center virtualization and hardware (enclosures, compute, storage area networks, data center networking).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 to support diverse workloads and applications utilizing Infrastructure as Code principles (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 six months of employment):IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)Preferred Certifications:Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate (MCAAA)VMware Certified Professional – Virtual Data Center (VCP-VDC)Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure CertificationsAWS Solution Architect (ASA)HashiCorp Certified: Terraform AssociateCisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)Project+Linux+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.QUALIFICATIONSTo 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 EXPERIENCEGraduation 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.A valid State of Florida Driver License is required at all times while employed in this classification.Equal OpportunityThe City of Gainesville is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and does not discriminate in hiring. Minorities, women and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.If you are unable to apply online due to a disability, contact recruiting at HR@cityofgainesville.org or by calling 352-334-5077.

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