DevOps Specialist

This position within the Division of Marketing’s Digital Team joins a team of front-end and back-end web developers and platforms team to help host, secure, and maintain the central web presence of Syracuse University. The Dev Ops Specialist will work in collaboration w/Marketing Technology & Web Development Teams to assist with on-premise and cloud containerized deployments. This position is responsible for assisting the development team to automate the implementation, testing, and deployment of products into a runtime environment in a reliable and efficient manner.

This position is part of a high performing team providing a stable and reliable web hosting environment for various websites for Syracuse University, including flagship channels ((Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).), schools and colleges, and business units. The Dev Ops Specialist works with central IT to ensure proper security, code review and University development best practice is followed. The Dev Ops Specialist will have trusted access to production, development and testing environments.

This includes high-visibility properties in the central marketing portfolio in addition to hundreds of other websites that are hosted using the university’s web hosting platform. The scope of services in these responsibilities includes web, application, database and legacy systems.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent amount of education and work experience.
• One (1) plus years of work experience related to software development and containerized applications with a focus on CI/CD and application monitoring.

• Experience with Dev Ops (CI/CD) pipeline concepts and tools such as Git Hub, Gitlab, Docker, and Jenkins.
• Experience with one or more scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go).
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Familiarity with configuration management systems (Ansible) to automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployment tasks across varied language stacks.
• Familiarity with various methods to audit site performance, monitor uptime and prevent intrusion preferred.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and experience troubleshooting web server connections and routing.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or other cloud hosting preferred.
• Experience with Word Press, Django, and identity providers, such as Azure Entra.
• Experience documenting systems, architecture and solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, the ability to work well with others and independently as necessary.
• Ability to prioritize projects, evaluate requests and offer solutions.

• Work with web development and marketing technology/platform teams to assist with assist with on-premise and cloud containerized deployments, automating the implementation, testing, and deployment of products into a runtime environment in a reliable and efficient manner.
• Work with central IT to ensure proper security, code review and University development best practice is followed.
• Break/fix incident response and support of division, campus community, and external vendor partners.
• Craft process, best practice and support documentation as required.
• Quality assurance (QA) test sites and systems in collaboration with web development team for functionality and accessibility.

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Syracuse University is a private, international research university with distinctive academics, diversely unique offerings, and an undeniable spirit. Located in the geographic heart of New York State, with a global footprint, and over 150 years of history, Syracuse University offers a quintessential college experience.

The scope of Syracuse University is a testament to its strengths: a pioneering history dating back to 1870; a choice of more than 200 majors, 100 minors, and 200 advanced degree programs offered across the University’s 13 schools and colleges; over 15,000 undergraduates and over 6,000 graduate students; more than a quarter of a million alumni in 160 countries; and a student population from all 50 U.S. states and 123 countries.

Syracuse is a medium-sized city situated in the geographic center of New York State approximately 250 miles northwest of New York City. The metro-area population totals approximately 500,000. The area offers a low cost of living and provides many social, cultural, and recreational options, including parks, museums, festivals, professional…