Assistant Cloud Administrator Division of HPD TECH

About the Agency

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

• We maintain building and resident safety and health
• We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
• We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness, Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion—the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s housing crisis, addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing home ownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.

Your Team: Housing Preservation & Development Technology (HPD Tech) is the IT division within HPD. The Office of HPD Tech leads the agency’s effort to transform HPD through technology by promoting productivity and eliminating manual processing, shrinking costs, and increasing the pace of work. HPD Tech works to improve the effectiveness of business processes using core applications for flawless execution. HPD Tech empowers decision makers with access to quality (complete and accurate) information to anticipate and pro-actively react to building, neighborhood and market conditions.

The Office of HPDTech is composed of 9 units: CIO, Budget, Enterprise Architecture, Ideation, Infrastructure Network and Systems, Planning & Compliance, Product Area, Release & Service Management, and Security. Your Impact:

Assistant Cloud Administrator – Division of HPD TECH

The Assistant Cloud Administrator works to maintain the infrastructure and functionality of the Agency’s cloud environments also utilized by Section8/HAS. You will assist clients in installing and troubleshooting access to their cloud services, while working alongside the Cloud Administrator to ensure that cloud services continue to function and that service level agreements for function and availability are maintained. You will create, maintain and troubleshoot all parts of the HPD cloud environments with heavy focus on the Section 8/HAS Elite on AVD environment within Azure.

Your Role

Your role will be to assist the HPDTECH Cloud Administrator(s) in all day-to-day duties including but not limited to the responsibilities and skills required in this document. You will maintain the cloud environment, ensure the environment is up to date with patches and configuration with attention to cost savings and performance. You will perform troubleshooting on all levels of the environment from Cloud Administration to AVD instances and end-user issues with heavy focus on the Section 8/HAS Elite on AVD environment within Azure.

Your Responsibilities

• Provision resources and maintain the cloud environment by adding new servers or databases as needed.
• Examine performance metrics, identify, troubleshoot and correct issues within cloud environments to ensure highest possible levels of performance.
• Coordinate with vendors and other internal teams to ensure issues are communicated with department heads and are quickly resolved.
• Manage security for cloud environments by monitoring access requests and reviewing security logs for suspicious activity.
• Maintain and upgrade existing cloud environment components and OS to ensure optimal performance and up-to-date patch levels.
• Manage Azure cloud resources, including creating virtual machines, scale-sets, storage, storage accounts, Virtual Networks, databases, and other resources.
• Develop new features and functionality for existing systems while maintaining performance standards.
• Monitor system…