Senior Systems Integrations Engineer

Senior Systems Integrations Engineer

HYBRID EMPLOYEE:
Reports to the institution in Tampa, FL. Can work remotely 1 to 2 days a week.

HOURS:

Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

PRIMARY PURPOSE:

The Senior Systems Integrations Engineer is a technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable system integrations across enterprise platforms. This role combines deep expertise in application integration and Dev Ops practices, ensuring efficient deployment pipelines, seamless data exchange, and system stability. In addition to engineering responsibilities, this position supports team collaboration, mentors developers, and contributes to the continuous improvement of integration and delivery strategies.

ORGANIZATIONAL SUMMARY:

Located in the vibrant and diverse Tampa Bay region of Florida's gulf coast, the University of South Florida (USF) is a Preeminent State Research University with campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee. Rated as one of the top places to live in the U.S., Tampa Bay offers a high quality of life, year-round sunshine, and easy access to top-rated entertainment.

USF is one of the nation's largest public universities, serving more than 50,000 students with an annual budget of $1.8 billion. Over the past five years, USF has been the fastest-rising university in the nation, public or private, on the U.S. News and World Report's list of best universities, which it ranks as the 44th best public university in America.

USF is proud to be an innovating partner within the Tampa Bay region, listed by Forbes as the top emerging tech city in the country.

USF Information Technology (USF IT) provides technology services and support for the University of South Florida. The IT team, led by the Vice President and CIO, provides the following services:
Administrative Services, Client Support, Communication Services, Teaching and Learning, Analytics and Reporting, Mobile and Web Services, Consulting Services, Cybersecurity Service and Research Technologies.

USF offers GREAT BENEFITS to full time employees!!

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Vacation Days
• Paid Sick Days
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Various Retirement Options, including 401K employer match
• Tuition Assistance (available for yourself, spouse, partner or dependent)

For more information about your total compensation package and other USF benefits, please visit:
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PRIMARY JOB DUTIES:

• 30% Design and Development:
  Develops and maintains secure, scalable integrations between enterprise systems, internal applications, and third-party services. Designs APIs and service-oriented architectures that align with best practices and business needs. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into efficient, maintainable technical solutions. Leads technical design efforts for projects involving significant integration or infrastructure components, keeping in mind risk and cost components. Maintain knowledge of storage, compute, and network components as pertains to integrations.
• 25% Dev Ops and Deployment Automation:
  Implements and manages CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable software delivery. Works closely with infrastructure and operations teams to ensure alignment on deployment practices and environment configuration. Develops and maintains scripts and infrastructure-as-code for automated provisioning, monitoring, and deployment. Integrates automated testing, security scanning, and observability tools into the release process.
• 20% Integration Architecture and Monitoring:
  Serves as a subject matter expert on application and data integrations, middleware platforms, and message-based systems. Monitors the performance and health of integrations, proactively identifying and addressing reliability, efficiency, and scalability concerns. Implements logging, alerting, and telemetry to support visibility and troubleshooting of integration and deployment issues.
• 15% Technical Guidance and Team
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Provides hands-on mentoring to developers in integration patterns, CI/CD practices, and modern deployment approaches. Conducts code reviews and technical…