Development Operations Engineer I - 529158

The University of Alabama • Tuscaloosa, AL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Development Operations Engineer I builds and configures containerization and clusterization under general supervision. Helps monitor applications, servers, system reliability, and compute performance. Implements various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure under close supervision. May provide support for the development, test, release, and update processes for development operations operation. Encourages and builds automated processes wherever possible. Monitors and documents changes to code with source control tools.

The Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH) at the Alabama Water Institute (AWI) is developing a hybrid and multi-cloud water science environment to support a collaborative experiment to analyze the National Water Model and improve US capacity for critical flood and drought prediction.

This position work closely with the DevOps Manager, System/Site Reliability Engineer, Research Software Engineers, hydrologic modelers, and experts in GIS, AI/ML, and databases and provides hydrologic model software development support for this project.

Continuation in this position is contingent upon availability of external funding.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree; OR associate's degree and two (2) years of IT experience; OR high school diploma or GED and four (4) years of IT experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills for collaboration with academics, researchers, engineers, and students.
• Strong communication skills for collaboration with researchers and technical teams.
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, or similar language.
• Strong proficiency in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git, GitHub Actions, and Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of networking principles, object storage, and GCP BigQuery.
• Willing to learn new tools and technologies.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role with focus on multi-cloud architecture and HPC.
• Experience in cloud computing and DevOps practices.
• Experience with web-based geospatial visualization tools (e.g., Tethys, React-based mapping applications).
• Experience with SLURM, HPC job scheduling, or scientific computing workflows.
• Experience contributing to open-source research software or academic publications.
• Experience with Docker containerization and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Nginx, Supervisor, and HPC/cloud performance benchmarking.

Responsibilities

• Builds and configures containerization and clusterization.
• Monitors applications, servers, system reliability, and compute performance.
• Implements various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure.
• Provides support for the development, test, release, and update processes for development operations.
• Encourages and builds automated processes wherever possible.
• Monitors and documents changes to code with source control tools.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level