Senior Application & Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Application & Infrastructure Engineer is a senior member of the IAM and Data Infrastructure (IDI) team within Information Strategy and Services (ISS). The role designs, implements, maintains, and supports highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient enterprise technology platforms. It supports critical server, cloud, identity, integration, database, and application environments while improving reliability, security, performance, and operational efficiency. This is a hands-on engineering role spanning applications, infrastructure operations, security, automation, service reliability, and technical leadership. The engineer troubleshoots complex systems, automates operational work, collaborates across technical teams, and participates in periodic after-hours outage and patching support. The position is eligible for a high-flex hybrid work environment, with no minimum or prescribed in-person requirement. Work is organized around core working hours in Colorado Mountain Time. The University of Colorado Anschutz offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health and life insurance, retirement plans, tuition benefits, ECO Pass, and paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. The stated starting salary range is $78,051–$93,143; the position may be eligible for overtime compensation depending on level.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a closely related field; four years of professional or high-level technical work experience may substitute for the bachelor’s degree, or an associate’s degree with two years of relevant work experience may substitute.
- At least two years of progressively responsible experience supporting enterprise applications, systems administration, cloud services, platform operations, or site reliability engineering functions.
- At least two years administering enterprise Linux and/or Windows server environments.
- Experience with Linux administration, including system configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tuning, automation, and shell scripting.
- Knowledge of information security principles, standards, frameworks, and best practices.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills across complex systems.
- Ability to prioritize competing demands and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively within cross-functional teams.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong organizational, planning, and time-management skills.
- Experience administering container workloads with technologies such as Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes.
- Experience supporting virtualization technologies, enterprise infrastructure platforms, and cloud-based applications and services.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex multi-tier systems spanning applications, containers, operating systems, databases, directories, networking, identity platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
- Strong customer service orientation and commitment to service excellence.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship; the employer cannot provide work visa sponsorship or employment authorization now or in the future.
- Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.
Nice To Haves
- Five or more years of experience as a Systems Administrator, Infrastructure Engineer, Operations Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer.
- Experience supporting public cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Experience with infrastructure automation, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability platforms.
- Experience supporting web technologies such as Apache, NGINX, Node.js, PHP, Web Application Firewalls, and Load Balancers.
- Experience administering Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL/MariaDB, and PostgreSQL database platforms.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms and tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
- Experience supporting iPaaS technologies such as Boomi or MuleSoft.
- Familiarity with IAM technologies including Active Directory, SAML, OAuth/OIDC, SCIM, Oracle Identity Governance, Oracle Unified Directory, Oracle Identity Domains, and Grouper.
- Experience in higher education, healthcare, research, or other complex enterprise environments.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, administer, maintain, and support enterprise application platforms and services, including single sign-on and multifactor authentication services.
- Administer application environments across on-premises and cloud-hosted platforms, including middleware, web services, databases, integrations, containers, and identity-enabled applications.
- Perform application upgrades, patches, configuration changes, migrations, release support, and lifecycle management activities.
- Monitor application availability, performance, logging, integrations, and service health; diagnose complex disruptions in coordination with technical teams and vendors.
- Implement security controls, system hardening, vulnerability remediation, and monitoring practices that support university standards and regulatory requirements.
- Develop and maintain automation for application administration, deployment support, configuration management, monitoring, and operational workflows.
- Support backup, recovery, continuity, failover readiness, and restoration validation for critical application platforms.
- Create technical documentation, standard operating procedures, architectural diagrams, and support resources.
- Provide guidance and knowledge sharing across the team.
- Participate in periodic after-hours outage and patching support.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plans, including an employer contribution of 10% of gross pay to the Retirement 401(a) Plan
- Tuition benefits
- Reduced-rate ECO Pass for RTD bus and light rail service
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
- Vacation accrual of 22 days per year, up to a maximum accrual of 352 hours
- Sick leave accrual of 15 days per year, with unlimited maximum accrual
- 15 holiday days per year
- Flexible work arrangements when possible
- Workforce Development Program supporting skills and career advancement
- Wellness initiatives
- Coaching and continuous learning opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
