Offer: Infrastructure Automation Engineer (2 Positions)

Infrastructure Automation Engineer (2 Positions)

Infrastructure Automation Engineer (2 Positions)

About University at Albany:
Established in 1844 and designated a University Center of the State University of New York in 1962, the University at Albany's broad mission of excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, research and public service engages a diverse student body of approximately 17,000 students in nine schools and colleges across three campuses.
Located in Albany, New York, New York State's capital, the University is convenient to Boston, New York City and the Adirondacks.

Listing description
Information Technology Services (ITS) at the University at Albany seeks candidates for an Infrastructure Automation Engineer to support the academic, research, and business needs of this vibrant institution. The prosperous candidate has the technical expertise and intellectual curiosity to build complex environments for a wide variety of disciplines and departments. She/He/They have keen analytical skills and are driven to deal with problems and acquire new expertise to inform and build an environment commensurate with the needs of a public research university.
As part of a group of IT professionals, the Infrastructure Automation Engineer plays a key function in design, development, implementation, and maintenance of application and infrastructure systems to provide secure and robust solutions. She/He/They are adept at working in physical and virtual environments, and on-premises and cloud-located applications.
The Infrastructure Automation Engineer collaborates across ITS, providing input and skills to a range of services such as email, web, identity and access management, teaching and learning, and research and advanced computing.
Main Responsibilities:

»Provide day-to-day operational ownership for assigned AI/ML platforms including patching, upgrading, configuration management, system backups, continuous monitoring, and performance management.

»Design and implement automated solutions for hardware and software infrastructure.

»Automate the deployment, scaling, and monitoring of applications and services, and administer automated workflow tools, middleware application servers (i.e., Oracle Weblogic, IBM WebSphere), and server visualization technologies (i.e., VMware, Red Hat Virtualization, or Oracle VM).

»Create and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) scripts using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.

»Collaborate with software development and operations teams to implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

»Manage and maintain virtual and cloud-located infrastructure, including servers, storage systems, and networking equipment.

»Monitor and optimize system performance and availcapability.

»Maintain security posture in conformity with industry best practice and ITS policies and procedures. Implement and maintain security controls to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availcapability of data and systems.

»Participate in incident response and disaster recovery planning and testing.

»Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to improve the efficiency and relicapability of our infrastructure.

»Manage host environments to ensure proper tuning and sufficient capacity (including web servers, database servers, VMWare, Cisco, Citrix, SAN, directories, and blades).

»Engage in the design and build of solutions that align with architectural norms, industry best practices, ITS standards, and meet project and operational requirements. Contribute to the development of architectural blueprints, templates, tools, systems standards, technical roadmaps, and operational procedures.

»Plan, design, build, implement, and support a growing array of cloud automation tools and services.

»Maintain subject matter skills by staying current with industry trends and following a professional development plan.
Additional Responsibilities:

»Effectively and proactively communicate with peers, researchers, and management.

»Be available to provide scheduled support and consultation outside normal business hours, including occasional evenings, holidays, or weekends, within reasonable professional obligation and expectation.

General Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications required

»A bachelor's degree from a college or university accredited by a U.S. Department of Education (DOE) or internationally recognized accrediting organization.

»Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Ruby, or JavaScript.

»Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

»Proven design, planning, and implementation practice with infrastructure components including Linux servers, storage, and network.

» candidates must demonstrate an capability to develop inclusive and equitable relationships within our diverse campus community

» candidates must demonstrate an capability to support diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and belonging relative to their function

Preferred Qualifications required

» practice with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.

» practice with automation and configuration management tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, or TravisCI.

» practice working with cloud technologies

»Cloud certification such as AWS, Azure, or similar.

» practice administering enterprise networking.

» practice with centralized logging/log aggregation tools such as Splunk.



Additional Information:
Professional Rank and income Range: Senior Programmer Analyst, SL4; $100,000-110,000
Special Notes: Visa sponsorship is not available for this job offer. this job offer has the potential for telecommuting up to 50%.
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Application Instructions:
candidates MUST submit the following documents:

»Resume/CV

»Cover letter stating all the required minimum qualifications and any of the applicable preferred qualifications

»Contact information for three professional references

Note: After submitting your resume/CV, the subsequent pages give you instructions for uploading additional documents (i.e. cover letter etc.).