Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Summary

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 Dev Ops Engineer applies an automation mindset leveraging Dev Ops 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 Cross Apps Middleware team, the Sr. Dev Ops 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.

Where You Will Work

Applicants must be Colorado residents or able to relocate to Colorado within a month of starting employment with University of Colorado System Administration.

This role is eligible to work remotely within Colorado.

Please note, leadership may adjust in-office work requirements with a minimum of three months' notice before any change can be implemented.

Equal Opportunity Statement

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical architect and systems integrator for large complex systems and applications, including monitoring, orchestration, and automation.
• Communicate and collaborate with application owners/managers, initiative leaders, and project leadership to clarify requirements, develop work plans, document, and lead technical architecture.
• Apply Dev Ops methodologies for building and operating highly available, scalable applications and services.
• Evaluate, build and modify automation for deploying applications and services based on Dev Ops and Git Ops principles internally and for external teams
• Serve as a domain architect providing advice and guidance on new technical solutions and/or architectural changes to existing design, particularly as it pertains to the Cross Apps Middleware areas of discipline and support.
• Maintain, upgrade, and extend a library of Ansible playbooks, Bash, and Python scripts.
• Configure applications with Git Ops, Git Lab deployments, and RESTful APIs.
• Generate monitoring from Ansible inventory variables and other primary sources.
• Prevent drift between environments (e.g. DEV, TEST, STAGE, PROD).
• Enforce operational scalability and availability of applications, patching, and…