Police chief Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

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The Office of Innovation & Technology (OIT) is the central IT agency for the City of Philadelphia headed by the Chief Information Officer (CIO). OIT oversees all major information and communications technology initiatives for the City of Philadelphia - increasing the effectiveness of the information technology infrastructure, where the services provided are advanced, optimized, and responsive to the needs of the City of Philadelphia's businesses, residents, and visitors. OIT responsibilities include : identifying the most effective approach for implementing new information technology directions throughout city government; improving the value of the city's technology assets and the return on the city's technology investments; ensuring data security continuity; planning for continuing operations in the event of disruption of information technology or communications services; and supporting accountable, efficient and effective government across every city department, board, commission and agency.

Job Description

The PPD Platform Engineering team is responsible for the cross-platform technologies that provide technical delivery of applications and services used in day-to-day operations. The Principal Systems Engineer position is a lead technical position in the team which oversees management, administration, and operations for the department's IT systems infrastructure and data centers. This position requires high proficiency in areas of infrastructure operations including server operating systems, Windows Active Directory, on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure virtualization, middleware and application deployment, networks, and data recovery. The individual will have an operational focus on Business Continuity, Security Risk Management, IT Auditing Compliance, IAM (Identity and Access Management, and Disaster / Data Recovery. Under the supervision of the IT Architect, the candidate will lead and mentor a team of engineers in performing analysis, design, planning, implementations, maintenance, problem-solving and enhancements on Police systems and networks. These include a combination of servers, mainframes, cloud tenants, storage arrays, LANs, WANs, VPNs, and the physical and logical components that integrate these systems together as an enterprise backbone or platform. This position includes participation in project teams at both local and central enterprise levels so subject matter expertise, professional demeanor, customer service skills, along with the ability to work within a team is necessary. This requires creativity and resourcefulness to accomplish goals and objectives as well as applying concepts, plans, and strategies which may deviate from traditional methods and practices. The position is also expected to have the flexibility to assist in other areas as needed. Due to the 24 / 7 / 365 operational requirements with Public Safety and Law Enforcement, this position will also require the individual to work some non-standard work hours including nights, weekends and holidays when needed. In addition, the team runs an on-call rotation

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Salary Range : $90,000 - $100,000

Starting salary to be determined based on experience and qualifications.

Important : To apply, candidates must provide a cover letter and a resume.

The successful applicant will be required to submit to a fingerprint background check per CJIS policy.

Work Setting : in-person (onsite)

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Effective May 22, 2023, vaccinations are no longer required for new employees that work in non-medical, non-emergency or patient facing positions with the City of Philadelphia. As a result, only employees in positions providing services that are patient-facing medical care (ex : Nurses, doctors, emergency medical personnel), must be fully vaccinated.

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