[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @University of Colorado

Role Description

University Information Services (UIS) provides technical services and enterprise applications to the University of Colorado campuses and the Office of the President. UIS is committed to excellence in customer service and technical expertise. Through the development of enterprise applications, UIS supports the University systems used by students, faculty, human resources employees, finance employees, and others.

The Senior DevOps Engineer applies an automation mindset leveraging DevOps tools with the application of technical skills and leadership to the areas of application and infrastructure deployment, patching, and support. This position will serve as a senior technical expert within the UIS Enterprise Cloud Services group. As a part of the ECS CrossApps Middleware team, the Sr. DevOps Engineer performs installation, configuration, upgrade, and day-to-day operational support of a variety of applications and middleware technologies.

This position designs, builds, and maintains technical environments, supports system rollouts, responds to and troubleshoots escalated operational issues while managing internal and external customer relationships. This position informs and advises project managers and stakeholders about project plans and implementation, conducts technical analysis, and produces recommendations. This position is also charged with supporting daily operations of these applications, and must also work with the team to automate processes and procedures, create efficiencies, and provide quality business services to our clients and customers.

This position reports to the Assistant Director of Enterprise Cloud Services and is exempt from the State of Colorado Classified Staff system.

Qualifications

• Bachelors’ degree from an accredited institution of higher education or equivalent professional experience.
• Five (5) years’ experience with a combination of the following:
  • Application engineering and automation technologies, based on enterprise architecture standards.
  • Designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-ready container orchestration platforms.
  • Developing and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience leveraging industry standards building services in IaaS/PaaS/Cloud environments.
  • Reading and writing code in multiple languages.
  • Linux systems administration.
  • Oracle Fusion Middleware: Java application servers; WebLogic; Oracle Identity Solutions (e.g., OUD, OID, OVD, OIM), and/or Ping Identity; Oracle Service Bus; Oracle Enterprise Data Quality, Oracle SOA Suite.
  • Experience working with Tableau, Cognos, Neo4J.
  • Experience working with Docker, Rancher 2 and Kubernetes.
  • Configuration management and scripting.

Requirements

• Seven (7) years’ experience with a combination of the following:
  • Certifications and/or demonstrated experience in major cloud platforms (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud), container orchestration platforms (i.e. K8), and configuration management tools (i.e. Ansible).
  • Demonstrated experience configuring and utilizing monitoring, alerting and logging solutions, such as Elastic Stack (aka ELK Stack) and Greylog.
  • Experience implementing or integrating with standards-based Identity and Service Providers (e.g., OpenID Connect, SAML2).
  • Experience constructing highly secure, reliable, and performant solutions with open-source technologies.
  • Experience working in a 24x7 operational environment with on-call and production support responsibility.
  • Experience with disaster recovery planning and testing.

Benefits

• No-cost or low-cost medical & dental plan options, some inclusive of IVF assistance.
• Disability, Life, Vision Insurance options.
• Multiple retirement planning options including a mandatory 401(a) plan where CU contributes 10% of your gross pay, a 401k or 403b plan and a 457 deferred compensation plan.
• Pre-tax savings plans, such as Health care and Dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Ample sick and vacation leave, along with at least 12 paid holidays, including a dedicated week off for winter break.
• 6 weeks of parental leave to adjust to the joys of parenthood.
• A tuition benefit program for you and/or your dependents.
• Free RTD EcoPass and free onsite parking at our 1800 Grant Street Office.
• Many additional perks & programs with the CU Advantage.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits may be available.