Hi, We're NJ TRANSIT!

Summary:

NJ Transit is seeking an experienced HCM Systems Analyst with 1-3 years of hands-on experience in Oracle HCM Cloud, including Oracle Cloud Payroll, and strong proficiency in SQL. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting, optimizing, and troubleshooting our Human Capital Management (HCM) system, with a specific focus on the Payroll module. You will collaborate with HR, IT, and other departments to implement system enhancements, perform data analysis, and ensure the integrity and accuracy of our HCM data. The ideal candidate will be highly analytical, detail-oriented, and possess a deep understanding of Oracle HCM Cloud functionality, Payroll processes, and SQL-based reporting.

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Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provides application design and programming support for the maintenance and enhancement of existing applications systems, making recommendations and providing user training as appropriate to improve the systems.
• Analyzes generalized user requirements, and designs and programs solutions to satisfy the users needs.
• Analyzes, develops, implements and supports new software applications to improve business systems.
• Develops and maintains efficient instructions for running production job streams.
• Demonstrates technical knowledge in assigned systems.

Education, Experience and Qualifications:

• Associates Degree in Computer Science or related area required.

Knowledge and Skills:

• One (1) to Three (3) years of experience working with Oracle HCM Cloud, including Oracle Cloud Payroll and core modules such as Core HR, Talent Management, or Learning.
• Degree may be substituted by two (2) additional years of related experience.
• Knowledge of Human Resources and Payroll processes.
• Strong proficiency in SQL..

Working Environment:

• Office Environment

At NJ Transit you will enjoy a competitive salary and excellent benefit package:

• Comprehensive Family Health Insurance – Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision 
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Life Insurance 
• Paid Leave 
• Tuition Assistance 
• Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits Plan
• Retirement Plans
  • 401(a) - Retirement plan with a 6% employer contribution
  • 401(k) - Retirement saving plan with up to an 3% company match
  • 457(b) - Deferred Savings Plan

Move forward with us! At NJ TRANSIT, you'll join us in transforming the third-largest transportation agency in North America. We are committed to delivering safe, reliable service that gets customers to their destinations on time–and we're looking to hire talented folks with a commitment to excellence to make it all possible.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Conduct proactive (preventive) and reactive maintenance on complex digital land-mobile radio, microwave, and network communications systems.
• Troubleshoot and repair electronic communications systems.
• Analyze alarm data logs and statistics. Plan and implement corrective actions.
• Collect test instrument data and review with Principal RAN Specialist or management to be able to translate into actionable measures to repair, improve, optimize, or calibrate RF, microwave, or network communications systems.
• Respond to trouble tickets initiated from both end-users and vendors in a timely fashion and meet stringent SLA requirements.
• Participate in on-call schedule rotations
• Coordinate’s facility visits/access, as necessary, with outside vendors/agencies.
• Provide weekly status reports in detail to include active projects, pending maintenance and efforts to achieve 99.999% availability on all equipment.
• Work under occasional supervision.

This Position Supervises:

• N/A.

Education, Experience & Qualifications:

• Completion of a technical training or degree program in electronics with a concentration in wireless systems (field experience will be considered in lieu of degree or certificate)
• 5+ years experience in operations and maintenance of large, multi-site, digital wireless communications systems including conventional and trunked land mobile radio systems, MPLS microwave networks.
• Fluent in Microsoft Office 265 including Microsoft Teams.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Demonstrate practical understanding of trunking, microwave, and antenna RF theory.
• Advanced understanding of land-mobile radio systems engineering principles and practices.
• Demonstrate practical knowledge of Federal Communications Commission rules and regulations. This includes but is not limited to Parts 22 and 90.
• Demonstrate practical experience and responsibility for operating systems using one or more of the following digital LMR air interface technologies: P25, FDMA, TDMA, TETRA, iDEN, DMR, NXDN, and at least one of the following commercial air interface technologies: 4G/LTE, and/or other wireless technologies.
• Demonstrated operational knowledge and experience with various network transport technologies including: MPLS, T1, OC3, EPL..
• Have proficient knowledge of fundamental networking and protocols to include L2TP, TCP-IP, UDP, Multicast, Unicast, SNMP, SMTP, NTP, OSI layer, etc.
• Understanding of emergency/UPS power systems.
• Demonstrated practical experience with Computer-Aided Dispatch systems.
• Demonstrated project management experience.
• Excellent presentation and writing skills.

Certificates, Licenses & Registrations:

• Valid Driver's License
• FCC General Radio Telephone Operator and/or amateur license is preferred.

Working Environment:

• Indoor/Outdoor.
• Normal work hours along with special maintenance windows.

Physical Demands:

• Able to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to work under objects such as desks.
• Some confined space areas.

Other Conditions:

• Be able to drive to all areas of New Jersey.
• Be able to perform on-call after hour duties.

At NJ TRANSIT you will enjoy a competitive salary and excellent benefit package: 

• Comprehensive Family Health Insurance – Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision 
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Life Insurance 
• Paid Leave 
• Tuition Assistance 
• Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits Plan
• Retirement Plans
• 401(a) - Retirement plan with a 6% employer contribution
• 401(k) - Retirement saving plan with up to an 3% company match
• 457(b) - Deferred Savings Plan

Move forward with us! At NJ TRANSIT, you'll join us in transforming the third-largest transportation agency in North America. We are committed to delivering safe, reliable service that gets customers to their destinations on time–and we're looking to hire talented folks with a commitment to excellence to make it all possible.

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Summary:

Oversee both AWS cloud services and our on prem VMware footprint, ensuring operational stability while shaping our long-term cloud architecture and migration road map. This position will Work closely with application teams to understand workloads and prioritize migration candidates. Collaborate with transportation operations teams to ensure uptime, reliability, and safety of critical systems. Coordinate with AWS, VMware, and consulting vendors for support and solution design.

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Roles & Responsibilities:

•      Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering (AWS + VMware)

•      Build and maintain core AWS infrastructure: accounts, VPCs, IAM, logging, monitoring, and guardrails.

•      Manage VMware on prem environments (vSphere/ESXi/NSX/vSAN), ensuring high availability and reliable day-to-day operations.

•      Implement secure hybrid connectivity (VPN/Direct Connect) that supports legacy applications and gradual migration.

•      Support lift and shift migrations at first, while identifying opportunities for modernization over time (containers, managed database services, serverless).

•      Build initial automation and IaC foundations using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools Operations & Reliability.

Improve operational maturity: create runbooks, establish change management practices, and  implement monitoring/alerting.

·      Lead incident response for cloud and on prem environments, reducing MTTR and building longterm reliability.

·      Ensure effective capacity planning for both AWS and VMware resources.

·      Introduce pragmatic SRE practices appropriate for a small team (SLOs, postmortems, metrics) Security, Compliance & Risk Management.

·      Partner with security teams to implement identity controls, network segmentation, encryption, and logging.

·      Put into place basic governance: account structure, role-based access control, tagging, and audit readiness.

·      Help the organization adopt secure cloud use from early stages, including patching, secrets management, and configuration baselines.

·      Support compliance efforts relevant to transportation operations and systems (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) Cost Management.

·      Track and manage cloud costs at an early stage—tagging, budgeting, rightsizing—ensuring predictable growth.

·      Provide guidance to leadership on cost tradeoffs and migration impacts.

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Education, Experience and Qualifications:

•           Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related area and ten (10) years supervisory IT technical experience.

•           5+ years of cloud/virtualization engineering experience with 2+ years in a technical leadership role.

•           Strong hands-on AWS experience with core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch).

•           Solid experience managing and supporting VMware environments (vSphere/ESXi, HA/DRS, storage, networking).

•           Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and scripting (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).

•           Experience working in environments that are early in their cloud journey or transitioning from legacy infrastructure.

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Knowledge and Skills:

 •          Experience in transportation, logistics, or other operationally critical industries.

•           Exposure to modernization technologies (EKS, ECS, Lambda), even if not fully deployed yet.

•           Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and DevOps practices.

•           Builder mindset: capable of creating processes, standards, and automation from scratch.

•           Strong communication skills with both engineers and non technical stakeholders.

•           Practical and incremental approach to cloud migration and modernization.

•           High accountability and willingness to roll up your sleeves in a small team environment.

•           Successful rollout of foundational AWS infrastructure and governance.

•           Uptime and stability of both cloud and on prem environments.

·      On time completion of early migration milestones.

·      Improved team operational maturity (documentation, monitoring, automation).

·      Predictable monthly cloud spend and cost optimization progress.

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Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Certification such as AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), VCP-DCV, or CKA.

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At NJ Transit you will enjoy a competitive salary and excellent benefit package:

• Comprehensive Family Health Insurance – Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision 
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Life Insurance 
• Paid Leave 
• Tuition Assistance 
• Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits Plan
• Retirement Plans
  • 401(a) - Retirement plan with a 6% employer contribution
  • 401(k) - Retirement saving plan with up to an 3% company match
  • 457(b) - Deferred Savings Plan

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Move forward with us! At NJ TRANSIT, you'll join us in transforming the third-largest transportation agency in North America. We are committed to delivering safe, reliable service that gets customers to their destinations on time–and we're looking to hire talented folks with a commitment to excellence to make it all possible.

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Summary:

This position will lead key cloud migration initiatives and on premise infrastructure projects, including a major data center relocation. This role is responsible for driving cross functional planning, coordination, and execution across cloud (AWS), on premise VMware, and legacy systems critical to transportation operations. This position sits at the intersection of technology, operations, and delivery, bringing structure, visibility, and predictability to an organization that is early in its cloud journey. The ideal candidate is highly organized, comfortable with evolving environments, and experienced in both cloud transformation and large-scale infrastructure projects.

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Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning and delivery of AWS cloud migration initiatives across applications, infrastructure, and data services.
• Partner closely with the Cloud Computing team to sequence migration waves based on readiness, operational constraints, and business impact.
• Establish structured migration plans suited to an early maturity cloud environment (foundation building, pilot migrations, iterative improvement).
• Maintain program-level roadmaps, risks, dependencies, and executive reporting.
• Oversee planning and execution of a full data center relocation, including infrastructure inventory, dependency mapping, move groups, and cutover planning.
• Coordinate with network, storage, security, and facilities teams to ensure safe, efficient physical asset migration and re establishment.
• Manage timelines and risk mitigation strategies for relocation activities that impact operationally critical transportation systems.
• Ensure rollback plans, communication protocols, and downtime windows are clearly defined, approved, and executed.
• On-Premise Technology Project Delivery: (VMware (vSphere/ESXi, HA/DRS, vSAN, NSX)
• Enterprise storage systems (SAN, NAS)
• Physical server deployments, rack/stack, cabling
• Network upgrades (firewalls, switching, routing)
• Disaster recovery testing and fail over planning
• Legacy application migrations or modernization enablement
• Act as the primary liaison among engineers, transportation operations teams, business units, and external vendors.
• Coordinate AWS, VMware, data center facilities, and third-party consulting partners.
• Provide clear, consistent communication to technical and non technical audiences, including executives.
• Facilitate decision-making, alignment, and expectation-setting across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Process, Governance & Delivery Maturity: Develop structured project management artifacts: schedules, risk logs, status reports, communication plans, and migration playbooks.
• Help build governance frameworks for cloud adoption, data center transitions, and infrastructure and change management.
• Introduce repeatable processes to improve project execution discipline across the organization.
• Ensure all cloud and on-prem infrastructure plans account for transportation operational constraints (service windows, safety requirements, regulatory obligations).
• Develop cutover, testing, and rollback strategies that minimize impact to mission-critical systems.
• Track operational readiness and communicate impacts well in advance.
• Metrics & Continuous Improvement: Deliver predictable, measurable outcomes across migrations and infrastructure projects.
• Conduct retrospectives to improve repeatability and reduce risk over time.
•  Maintain KPIs around stability, delivery milestones, risk reduction, and stakeholder satisfaction.

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Education, Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required; PMP certification strongly preferred.
• Additional four (4) years equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Seven (7)+ years of project or program management experience, including multi-phase technical projects.
• Experience managing both cloud (preferably AWS) and on-prem infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating or managing data center moves, hardware refreshes, or large-scale infrastructure transitions.
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud environments, VMware virtualization, and basic cloud migration approaches.
• Strong risk management, schedule management, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Comfortable operating in environments with evolving processes, limited documentation, and changing priorities.

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Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience in the transportation, logistics, or critical operations industries.
• Familiarity with AWS terminology, services, and migration methods (no deep technical expertise required).
• Exposure to CI/CD, DevOps concepts, and modern tooling such as Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Experience working in coordination with Technical Managers, Engineers, and Infrastructure Architects.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive in identifying issues early.
• Strong communicator who can translate technical concepts into business language.
• Ability to create order and structure in low-maturity or high-change environments.
• Collaborative mindset with a focus on alignment and accountability.
• Strong problem-solving ability with a practical, outcomes-driven approach.

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Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Certification such as AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), VCP-DCV, or CKA.

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At NJ Transit you will enjoy a competitive salary and excellent benefit package:

• Comprehensive Family Health Insurance – Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision 
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Life Insurance 
• Paid Leave 
• Tuition Assistance 
• Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits Plan
• Retirement Plans
  • 401(a) - Retirement plan with a 6% employer contribution
  • 401(k) - Retirement saving plan with up to an 3% company match
  • 457(b) - Deferred Savings Plan