City of Houston Careers – Sr. IT Professional

Website City of Houston

Job Description:

The Senior IT Professional – Infrastructure enables the Houston Airport System to serve its customers by proactively resolving faults, performance tuning, testing backups, patching firmware/updates and mentoring team members. This position resolves complex faults in a timely fashion and works independently with ticket assignments. The Senior IT Professional – Infrastructure will provide solutions and guidance to many different technical disciplines and verticals.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Oversees a variety of highly complex analytical and technical assignments; provides subject matter expertise and advice for assigned technology and infrastructure systems; plans, manages, and implements infrastructure projects and upgrades;
  • Designs and documents infrastructure processes, procedures, and standards. Ensures effectiveness of infrastructure by performing preventive maintenance work and monitoring system performance;
  • Diagnoses problems; works with external vendors and COH departments; and supports back-ups for a variety of technologies, business units, and systems.
    Understands how technology infrastructure systems support business objectives.
  • Drives innovation and creative solutions by providing value propositions. Influences the strategy; acts as a technical thought leader in specialized area.
  • Implements best practices and uses knowledge of internal and external technology challenges and opportunities to drive business transformation. Addresses risks, limitations and vulnerabilities.

Job Requirements:

  • Information systems-specific technical certifications may be substituted for 1 year of either the education or the experience requirement, as applicable.
  • 10 years of experience managing, tuning, and auditing Microsoft Active Directory, including DNS, DHCP, DFS, and GPOs.
  • 10 years of progressive experience in deploying, managing, supporting, patching and optimizing VMware clusters.
  • 10 years of experience in backup technologies, managing backup jobs, testing jobs and optimizing backups. Especially using Veeam backup and
  • Replication or other major backup applications.
  • 10 years of progressive experience in deploying, managing, supporting, patching and optimizing storage area networks, similar to Dell Compellent, HPE Nimble, Dell EMC Isilon, and Brocade fabrics.
  • Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management and Information Systems (MIS) or a closely related field.
  • A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Management and Information Systems (MIS) or a closely related field may be substituted for two years of the experience requirement.
  • System-specific technical certifications may be considered for substitution for 1 year of experience.
  • Related professional Information Systems experience may be substituted for the education requirement on a year-for-year basis.
  • At least six (6) years of technology experience supporting IT infrastructure. System-specific technical certifications required. Advanced certifications and applicable work experience beyond six (6) years may be substituted for up to two (2) years of the education requirement.

Job Details:

Company: City of Houston

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Houston, TX, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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