Senior Systems Administrator

NOTE: This position is open only to the current City of New York employees serving in a permanent Civil Service title of Computer Specialist (Software).

To be considered for this position, PLEASE CLEARLY INDICATE YOUR CURRENT PERMANENT CIVIL SERVICE TITLE on your resume and cover letter.

The New York City Comptroller’s Office works to promote the financial health, integrity, and effectiveness of New York City government, in order to strengthen trust, secure a thriving future for all New Yorkers, and build a more just, equitable, and resilient city. Led by an independently elected citywide official, the comptroller’s office provides checks and balances needed to hold City government accountable for budgeting wisely, investing responsibly, operating efficiently, acting fairly, living up to its obligations and promises, and paying attention to the long-term challenges we face together.

The Office of the Comptroller’s Bureau of Information Systems provides a full range of technology support services for key business functions and Charter mandated responsibilities of the Comptroller’s Office. These services include technology strategic planning, web site development, graphic design, disaster recovery, systems development, network administration, audio/visual services, business process re-engineering, change management, program management, security administration, service desk, computer operations, telecommunications, and document management.

Under the direction of the Director of IT Operations & Network Services, the Senior Systems Administrator manages Active Directory provisioning, Office 365 administration, ATP monitoring, security administration and MS security updates.

Tasks include, but are not limited to, the following:

Microsoft Active Directory Administration
- Provide identity management functions for entire account lifecycle, including creation, modifying, and separation accounts from the environment.
- Perform and monitor security administration by modifying users, groups and application links, passwords etc. for all agency critical systems.

Microsoft Endpoint Manager / Microsoft Intune Administration
- Test, deploy, and report on MS security updates and MECM patch management & software deployments to servers and clients; monitor for new updates.
- Provide Intune administration for desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.
- Provide Tier 2 support with desktops, laptops, and mobile devices in regard to missing patches and/or Intune compliancy.
- Develop and maintain agency standard MS Windows image.

Microsoft 365 Administration
- Maintaining security by monitoring the system for potential vulnerabilities, identifying and mitigating risks.
- Perform and monitor Microsoft 365 product licensing, permissions, features, and group access.
- Manage Exchange Online, including mailbox permissions, quarantined items.
- Troubleshooting technical issues such as email delivery failures or authentication problems
- Managing the deployment of new features or functionality after they have been tested in a staging environment.
- Analyze and monitor Microsoft Office 365 ATP management alerts and email quarantine for policy violations/escalation.

Physical Security System Administration
- Administer the current key card access system, assigning/removing appropriate access to users as required.
- Monitor video surveillance cameras to ensure all are recording properly.
- Laisse with security vendor on scoping, quoting, and installing new card readers or video surveillance cameras.

Information Technology Support
- Assist in maintaining the agency's network security policies, standards, and procedures.
- Provide Tier 2 technology support to team members of the Service Desk as an escalation point for unsolved issues.
- Utilize the agency’s trouble ticket management software.
- Participate in technical working groups strategizing for future requirements and propose architecture enhancements based on business needs. Research and recommend innovative approaches for system administration tasks.
- Prepare security related reports using different applications for management.

Print Management Administration
- Setup, configure, and deploy printers throughout the agency.
- Provide Tier 2 support for Print environment, including Secure LDAP sign-in, Secure Print, Scanning from Multi-Function Printers.
- Manage the managed service portal for service and consumable’s replacement on the printers.

Fax Solution Administration
- Administer the current fax solution, including adding, changing, removing users/mailboxes that need to receive incoming faxes.
- Setup multifunction printers to receive incoming faxes where needed.
- Setup inbound fax numbers to route to network fileshares through city ftp server and scheduled scripts to route appropriately.

Powershell Scripting & Coding
- Ability to maintain, write and modify existing and new scripts integrating with MS365 environment.
- Ability to integrate PowerShell scripts with MS SQL Server.

NOTE: This position is open only to the current City of New York employees serving in a permanent Civil Service title of Computer Specialist (Software).

To be considered for this position, PLEASE CLEARLY INDICATE YOUR CURRENT PERMANENT CIVIL SERVICE TITLE on your resume and cover letter.

COMPUTER SPECIALIST (SOFTWARE) - 13632

(1) A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, including or supplemented by twenty-four (24) semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and two (2) years of satisfactory full-time software experience in designing, programming, debugging, maintaining, implementing, and enhancing computer software applications, systems programming, systems analysis and design, data communication software, or database design and programming, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(2) A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six (6) years of full-time satisfactory software experience as described in “1" above, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(3) A satisfactory combination of education and experience that is equivalent to (1) or (2) above. College education may be substituted for up to two years of the required experience in (2) above on the basis that sixty (60) semester credits from an accredited college is equated to one year of experience. A masters degree in computer science or a related computer field may be substituted for one year of the required experience in (1) or (2) above. However, all candidates must have a four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, plus at least one (1) year of satisfactory full-time software experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project.
NOTE: In order to have your experience accepted as Project Leader or Major Contributor experience, you must explain in detail how your experience qualifies you as a project leader or as a major contributor. Experience in computer operations, technical support, quality assurance (QA), hardware installation, help desk, or as an end user will not be accepted for meeting the minimum qualification
requirements.
Special Note
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level IV, in addition to the Qualification Requirements stated above, individuals must have one year of satisfactory experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project in data administration, database management systems, operating systems, data communications systems, capacity planning, and/or on-line applications programming.

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.