Devops Specialist I

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 DevOps 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 (www.syracuse.edu), schools and colleges, and business units. The DevOps Specialist works with central IT to ensure proper security, code review and University development best practice is followed. The DevOps 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Job Specific Qualifications

• Experience with DevOps (CI/CD) pipeline concepts and tools such as GitHub, 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.

• Proficient in source code management using Git, including branching strategies, merging workflows, and code reviews for projects in Python, PHP, JavaScript, and SQL.

• 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 WordPress, 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Physical Requirements

Not Applicable

Tools/Equipment

Not Applicable

Application Instructions

In addition to completing an online application, please attach a resume and cover letter.