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DevOps Specialist
Syracuse University
Salary- $70K/yr - $90K/yr
New York
Posted 3 weeks ago
Job Description
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.
Education and Experience
- 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.
Skills and Knowledge
- 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.
About Syracuse University
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.
About The Syracuse Area
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 regional theater, and premier shopping venues. Syracuse and Central New York present a wide range of seasonal recreation and attractions ranging from water skiing and snow skiing, hiking in the Adirondacks, touring the historic sites, visiting wineries along the Finger Lakes, and biking on trails along the Erie Canal.
EEO Statement
Syracuse University is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution. The University prohibits discrimination and harassment based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law to the extent prohibited by law. This nondiscrimination policy covers admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs, services, and activities.
Commitment to Supporting and Hiring Veterans
Syracuse University has a long history of engaging veterans and the military-connected community through its educational programs, community outreach, and employment programs. After World War II, Syracuse University welcomed more than 10,000 returning veterans to our campus, and those veterans literally transformed Syracuse University into the national research institution it is today. The University’s contemporary commitment to veterans builds on this historical legacy, and extends to both class-leading initiatives focused on making an SU degree accessible and affordable to the post-9/11 generation of veterans, and also programs designed to position Syracuse University as the employer of choice for military veterans, members of the Guard and Reserve, and military family members.
Commitment to a Diverse and Inclusive Campus Community
Syracuse University maintains an inclusive learning environment in which students, faculty, administrators, staff, curriculum, social activities, governance, and all other aspects of campus life reflect a diverse, multi-cultural, and international worldview. The University community recognizes and values the many similarities and differences among individuals and groups. At Syracuse, we are committed to preparing students to understand, live among, appreciate, and work in an inherently diverse country and world made up of people with different ethnic and racial backgrounds, military backgrounds, religious beliefs, socio-economic status, cultural traditions, abilities, sexual orientations and gender identities. To do so, we commit ourselves to promoting a community that celebrates and models the principles of diversity and inclusivity.