Senior Systems Engineer
About The Position
UW Information Technology (UW-IT) has an outstanding opportunity for Senior Systems Engineer to join their team. About this Opportunity Reporting to IAM Director in the Information Security (IS) division, the Senior Systems Engineer serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) across engineering and operational aspects of identity and access management, including authentication and authorization, access control, and identity governance stewardship, ensuring secure and seamless access to systems, data, and applications. This is an essential position and may be required to work remotely when UW suspends operations. The salary information provided below is for a full-time position.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, informatics, mathematics, information science, business administration, English or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Four or more years of experience developing and supporting web applications, including: Backend development in a high-level language, such as Python, JavaScript, Bash, or similar, for deployment in a Linux or cloud environment; Database development using SQL and a relational database system such as PostgreSQL
- Experience developing software in Python and maintaining C
- Demonstrated experience with the software development lifecycle including version control (Git) and code reviews
- Experience with DevOps practices including testing, continuous integration, and monitoring
- Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision, both independently and as part of a team.
- Demonstrated excellent written/oral communication skills, technical documentation skills, user liaison skills, and personal interaction abilities.
Nice To Haves
- Frontend web browser development using HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- Experience building, maintaining, and operating web service APIs, including management of authentication and authorization, versioning and change control, and caching and scaling.
- Experience deploying in cloud environments using tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with deployment tools like Ansible and GitHub actions.
- Experience with Javascript frameworks like Angular or React.
- Experience with IAM technologies used in research and education communities like SAML, OIDC, InCommon, eduGAIN, eduPerson, and ORCID.
- Experience in a major research University setting.
- Familiar with messaging services like Amazon SNS/SQS.
- Knowledge of software test methodologies and automation tools.
- Knowledge of networking-related concepts such as routing basics, DNS, and DHCP
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, test, debug, and deploy custom-built software
- Evaluate, configure, integrate, deploy, improve, and contribute to open source software
- Evaluate, configure, integrate, and deploy commercial software
- Document, test, and merge code with unit and integration test frameworks
- Operate and monitor services to meet target service level
- Assess software against performance objectives
- Optimize software configurations for maintainability and agility
- Provide technical consulting to customers and partners
- Align customer solutions and integration architectures with UWIT practices
- Present/demonstrate solutions at in-person and online meetings
- Participate in wider community and industry activities
- Participate in professional development activities
- Represent the UW at conferences and meetings
- Perform other duties as required
Benefits
- Benefits: For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
