Senior Web Site Developer Engineer

Applications Developer 3

IT Applications

Full time

Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Designs, develops, and troubleshoots moderately complex software and applications in support of establishing a sustainable institutional technological infrastructure.

Ranked No. 1 in innovation for 12 consecutive years, Arizona State University is one of the nation's largest and most inclusive public institutions. ASU is committed to advancing a dynamic, productive learning experience erprise Technology develops and operates the platforms, services, and tools that strengthen the student experience and enable innovation across the university.

The Senior Web Site Developer Engineer is the service owner and technical lead for ASU's managed web hosting ecosystem. The role provides operational ownership of managed Drupal hosting, domain name system services, content delivery and web application firewall services, SSL certificates, deployment pipelines, traffic management, and related platform operations. It serves as a technical escalation point for Enterprise Technology web teams and leads improvements in platform reliability, security, documentation, governance, and developer experience across hundreds of university websites.

By strengthening enterprise web platform operations, this position supports ASU's transition from EdTech to Tech Ed: moving beyond isolated tools toward learner-centered, interoperable, AI-augmented digital experiences. The engineer builds institutional AI capacity by incorporating approved AI-assisted workflows where they meaningfully improve quality, security, reliability, accessibility, documentation, and developer experience. AI-assisted work remains subject to human review and university requirements for privacy, security, data governance, accuracy, and responsible use.

$78,000.00 - $94,050.00; DOE

• Manage and support ASU's managed Drupal hosting services, including platforms such as Acquia, DNS, CDN/WAF, SSL certificates, and related web infrastructure.
• Support website launches, migrations, decommissions, and cloud application setup, including access, permissions, deployment processes, and environment configuration.
• Monitor platform health, performance, availability, and security; identify issues and coordinate with appropriate teams to resolve them.
• Support operational processes for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, security, and ongoing platform maintenance.

• Troubleshoot platform and application issues, respond to service incidents and security events, and coordinate resolution with technical teams.
• Work with security, infrastructure, and application teams to address vulnerabilities, improve reliability, and reduce recurring issues.
• Improve deployment processes, platform tools, automation, and self-service capabilities to make it easier for development teams to manage ASU websites.
• Create and maintain documentation for platform standards, procedures, troubleshooting, and service changes.
• Use approved automation and AI-assisted tools to improve development, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and other routine work while considering security, privacy, accessibility and accuracy.

• Serve as a technical resource and escalation point for Enterprise Technology web engineering teams on hosting, deployment, performance, security, and related platform issues.
• Provide guidance and support to team members, promote sound development and operational practices, and share knowledge across Enterprise Technology and the broader university web community.
• Communicate technical information, risks, decisions, priorities, and service impacts clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences while managing deadlines and competing needs.

• Knowledge and experience in backend or full-stack web development.
• Experience with Dev Ops practices and production environments.
• Experience with managed hosting or cloud-based application environments.
• Knowledge of web performance, monitoring, troubleshooting, security, and incident response.
• Experience with automated testing, Git or similar…