Linux Web Infrastructure Engineer

University of Washington Medical Center•Seattle, WA

1d•$97,080 - $157,764•Hybrid

About The Position

UW Information Technology has an outstanding opportunity for a Linux Web Infrastructure Engineer to join their team. Reporting to a Technology Manager in the Infrastructure Division, the Linux Web Infrastructure Engineer position is responsible for maintaining custom software and integrating it with third party software or systems using APIs or ETL processes. This position will also be responsible for maintaining and working on our UW Shared Web Hosting environment. Sometimes the work will involve maintaining our team’s internal systems to reduce technical debt or improving and optimizing our development and deployment workflows. In all cases this position will require evaluation, adaptation, integration, and management of sophisticated system, network, and application software to support the research, teaching, and administrative computing requirements of UW units. This position reduces the workload on other parts of the UW and beyond by removing repetitive work through workflow management, automation, and self-service. This position is responsible for software troubleshooting, development work, assisting with deployment, integration, and maintenance in a very complex, distributed environment serving hundreds of thousands of faculty, staff, students, patients, and community members. This position directly interacts with and supports the UW (including three campuses and UW Medicine), K-20, and Pacific Northwest Gigapop. The successful position holder will be an active team member and engage with other subject matter experts throughout the University and beyond. This is a full-time, hybrid position with expectations to be onsite in the U-District a minimum of two days per week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.
Four years’ experience in software systems administration and support: designing, installing, configuring, and troubleshooting.
Experience supporting a large (more than 10,000 sites) Web Hosting environment
Experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and/or MySQL and supporting database-backed applications
Experience with the implementation and configuration of software packages and/or cloud-based applications
Experience with APIs to understand and support system integrations
Experience with coding shell scripts, such as PowerShell and JavaScript
Demonstrated ability to lead service delivery teams, construct and manage projects, and consistently and effectively document status.
Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and apply new technologies
Demonstrated ability to deliver outstanding service to customers and peers.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Linux
Experience with Apache
Experience with MySQL
Experience with PHP
Experience with PERL
Experience with Ansible
Experience with all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
Experience administering WordPress including developing custom themes and plugins.

Responsibilities

UW Shared Web Hosting support and maintenance (40%)
Helps implement technical solutions, working with partners across the UW
Unix Engineering work (20%)
Perform full-stack operational system support for Linux servers, Kubernetes clusters and other managed services (10%)
Operate, extend and implement new supporting automation, tools and services. This includes deployment automation, configuration management systems, tool development. This may take the form of structured project work or individual tasks (10%).
Help to evaluate and integrate software updates, security patches and improvements of all types across all platforms and infrastructure (10%).
Participate in regular team and service meetings, project related meetings and cross-organizational technical forums (5%).
Provide on-call support duties and after-hours support on rotation with other team members (5%)