Platform Engineer

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Department: Infrastructure

Campus

Location:

Main Campus

FLSA Status: Exempt/ Salaried

Position Type/ Work Schedule

• 2080 Hours per year
• 12 Months per year
• 40 Hours per week (Estimated)

About Us

Colorado College is a nationally recognized, residential liberal arts college with 2,100 students from around the world. Employees set the stage for student success by bringing their diverse experience and knowledge to the table. The college actively promotes a dynamic and inclusive environment in which students and employees of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives can learn and work.

Job Summary

The Platform Engineer provides technical leadership in the design, deployment, administration, and ongoing support of the College’s enterprise infrastructure systems. Manages highly available, secure, and fault-tolerant private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, including virtualization, operating systems, data storage, networking services, backup, and disaster recovery. Leads infrastructure projects, develops automation solutions, establishes technical standards and procedures, and supports the reliability, performance, security, and long-term scalability of enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

Systems Architecture, Security, and Infrastructure Planning

• Designs, deploys, and supports highly available and secure private, public, and hybrid cloud-based systems, including disaster recovery solutions and procedures that meet the performance and availability requirements of the Block Plan. Designs, installs, configures, secures, and maintains electronic data storage solutions, highly redundant compute platforms, server virtualization infrastructure, and virtual desktop infrastructure. Promotes virtualization and cloud technologies and implements scalability and performance maturity models for enterprise platforms.
  
  Ensures that long-term systems operations and administration requirements are incorporated into the College’s overall information systems planning. Establishes standards, policies, and procedures for infrastructure administration, maintenance, and compliance with College requirements and applicable state and federal information security regulations. Collaborates with ITS Network Engineers to design and implement secure server and virtual networking solutions and provides guidance and support to faculty and students using cloud-based and on-premises servers for academic projects.

Systems

Engineering, Programming, and Automation

• Develops and maintains code to integrate infrastructure applications with third-party cloud-based and on-premises applications and to extend open-source software solutions. Designs and maintains automated workflows for virtual machines, infrastructure operations, and system deployments. Identifies and automates systems tasks using common scripting and automation tools. Promotes the appropriate use of open-source software and programs and code-control systems such as Git. Participates in a rotating after-hours on-call schedule to ensure continued support and availability of enterprise systems.

Systems

Administration, Monitoring, and Recovery

• Installs, configures, secures, and maintains guest operating system environments, including Windows, Linux, and prepackaged virtual appliances, as well as network infrastructure services such as DNS and DHCP. Oversees the installation of software releases and system upgrades, evaluates and installs patches, and diagnoses and resolves software and operating system issues. Monitors, tunes, diagnoses, and resolves issues involving server, network, operating system, and storage resources.
  
  Implements operating system, data storage, and backup enhancements to improve infrastructure reliability, recoverability,…