Join Our Team and Make a Difference in Higher
Education!
At the System Administration office at the University of Colorado,
we are dedicated to building a workplace where everyone feels
valued, supported, and empowered to thrive. Our office is committed
to fostering a culture where employees find community, a sense of
belonging, and the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to our
mission and purpose.
By joining our team, you'll have a direct impact on shaping the
future of higher education. In addition to the Office of the Board
of Regents, the University of Colorado's system administration
includes 19 units that provide essential services to CU's campuses
in Aurora, Boulder, Colorado Springs, and Denver, as well as the
Office of the President. While not a part of any one campus, we are
proud to serve in the centralized office for the University system.
Together, we ensure CU continues to deliver outstanding education,
groundbreaking research, and valuable service to our
communities.
We believe in creating an environment where the unique experiences
and perspectives of everyone are embraced, enriching the work we do
and the strategic outcomes we pursue. If you're passionate about
making a difference, contributing to a dynamic team, and supporting
a mission that matters, we encourage you to apply and be part of
our journey.
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System Administration .
Position Summary:
University Information Services (UIS) provides technical services
and enterprise applications to the University of Colorado campuses
and the Office of the President. UIS is committed to excellence in
customer service and technical expertise. Through the development
of enterprise applications, UIS supports the University systems
used by students, faculty, human resources employees, finance
employees, and others.
The Senior DevOps Engineer applies an automation mindset leveraging
DevOps tools with the application of technical skills and
leadership to the areas of application and infrastructure
deployment, patching, and support. This position will serve as a
senior technical expert within the UIS Enterprise Cloud Services
group. As a part of the ECS CrossApps Middleware team, the Sr.
DevOps Engineer performs installation, configuration, upgrade, and
day-to-day operational support of a variety of applications and
middleware technologies.
This position designs, builds, and maintains technical
environments, supports system rollouts, responds to and
troubleshoots escalated operational issues while managing internal
and external customer relationships. This position informs and
advises project managers and stakeholders about project plans and
implementation, conducts technical analysis, and produces
recommendations. This position is also charged with supporting
daily operations of these applications, and must also work with the
team to automate processes and procedures, create efficiencies, and
provide quality business services to our clients and
customers.
This position reports to the Assistant Director of Enterprise Cloud
Services and is exempt from the State of Colorado Classified Staff
system.
Where You Will Work:
Applicants must be Colorado residents or able to relocate to
Colorado within a month of starting employment with University of
Colorado System Administration.
This role is eligible to work remotely within Colorado.
Please note, leadership may adjust in-office work requirements
with a minimum of three months' notice before any change can be
implemented.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all
applicable federal, state, and local laws governing
nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a
workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and
dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to
apply, including protected veterans and individuals with
disabilities.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Duties and responsibilities of the position include, but are not
limited to:
- Serve as a senior technical architect and systems integrator
for large complex systems and applications, including monitoring,
orchestration, and automation.
Communicate and collaborate with application owners/managers,
initiative leaders, and project leadership to clarify requirements,
develop work plans, document, and lead technical architecture.
Apply DevOps methodologies for building and operating highly
available, scalable applications and services.
Evaluate, build and modify automation for deploying
applications and services based on DevOps and GitOps principles
internally and for external teams
Serve as a domain architect providing advice and guidance on
new technical solutions and/or architectural changes to existing
design, particularly as it pertains to the CrossApps Middleware
areas of discipline and support.
Maintain, upgrade, and extend a library of Ansible playbooks,
Bash, and Python scripts.
Configure applications with GitOps, GitLab deployments, and
RESTful APIs.
Generate monitoring from Ansible inventory variables and other
primary sources.
Prevent drift between environments (e.g. DEV, TEST, STAGE,
PROD).
Enforce operational scalability and availability of
applications, patching, and monitoring of applications.
Configure applications for stability, security, and
maintainability using technologies such as cloud, on premise,
containerization, and DevOps principles.
Troubleshoot application issues in collaboration with
application owners/managers and enterprise infrastructure
staff.
Debug SSL/TLS
Respond to and resolve outages and drive postmortems.
Providing direction and mentoring others in a leading
contributor role.
On-call support and occasional weekend maintenance
support.
Develop standards for configuration, documentation, and
management.
Draft process documentation and internal training to the
team.
Coordinate with infrastructure, identity/access management,
integrations, and other service providers in planning and/or
executing maintenance windows, evaluating and working toward
resolution of impacts on application and authentication
portfolio.
Provide backend support for Oracle Fusion Middleware products
and various unique applications.
Create and maintain base container environments.
Apply patches and upgrade applications.
What We Offer:
Salary: The anticipated hiring range has been established at
$110,000.
CU System Administration takes into consideration a combination of
the selected candidate's education, training and experience as it
relates to the position, as well as the position's scope and
complexity, internal pay equity and external market value when
determining a salary level for potential new employees.
Benefits: With our unparalleled range of benefits, including
top-notch healthcare, comprehensive wellness programs, enriching
professional development, and a dynamic work-life balance, we
ensure your holistic growth and happiness.
- No-cost or low-cost medical & dental plan options, some
inclusive of IVF assistance.
- Disability, Life, Vision Insurance options.
- Multiple retirement planning options including a mandatory
401(a) plan where CU contributes 10% of your gross pay, a 401k or
403b plan and a 457 deferred compensation plan.
- Pre-tax savings plans, such as Health care and Dependent care
flexible spending accounts.
- Embrace a healthy work-life balance with ample sick and
vacation leave, along with at least 12 paid holidays. This includes
a dedicated week off for winter break.
- 6 weeks of parental leave to adjust to the joys of
parenthood.
- A tuition benefit program for you and/or your dependents.
- Free RTD EcoPass and free onsite parking at our 1800 Grant
Street Office.
- Many additional perks & programs with the CU Advantage .
Additional taxable fringe benefits may be available.
For more information on benefits programs, please review our
Comprehensive Benefits
Guide .
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Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
Please include all relevant experience in your resume to be
accurately assessed against these qualifications. You must meet all
minimum requirements at the time of application to be considered
for this role.
- Bachelors' degree from an accredited institution of higher
education or equivalent professional experience. (The educational
requirement may be substituted by professional experience on a
year-for-year basis).
- Five (5) years' experience with a combination of the following:
- Application engineering and automation technologies, based on
enterprise architecture standards.
- Designing, implementing, and supporting, enterprise-ready
container orchestration platforms.
- Developing and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience leveraging industry standards building services in
IaaS/PaaS/Cloud environments.
- Reading and writing code in multiple languages.
Linux systems administration
- Oracle Fusion Middleware: Java application servers; WebLogic;
Oracle Identity Solutions (e.g., OUD, OID, OVD, OIM), and/or Ping
Identity; Oracle Service Bus; Oracle
- Enterprise Data Quality, Oracle SOA Suite
- Experience working with Tableau, Cognos, Neo4J
- Experience working with Docker, Rancher 2 and Kubernetes
- Configuration management and scripting
Preferred Qualifications:
- Seven (7) years' experience with a combination of the
following:
- Certifications and/or demonstrated experience in major cloud
platforms (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud), container
orchestration platforms (i.e. K8), and configuration management
tools (i.e. Ansible).
- Demonstrated experience configuring and utilizing monitoring,
alerting and logging solutions, such as Elastic Stack (aka ELK
Stack) and Greylog
- Experience implementing or integrating with standards-based
Identity and Service Providers (e.g., OpenID Connect, SAML2)
- Experience constructing highly secure, reliable, and performant
solutions with open-source technologies.
- Experience working in a 24x7 operational environment with
on-call and production support responsibility.
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and testing
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
To be successful in this position a candidate will need the
following:
- Be a self-starter, quick learner, curious investigator, and a
programmer (shell scripting).
- Solid knowledge of networking, Linux (and some Windows) system
administration, web servers, application servers, database servers,
SSL/TLS, logging, clustering, monitoring, RESTful APIs, and
container/orchestration.
- Ability to apply best practices, design patterns, and DevOps /
GitOps principles.
- Envision automating everything such that all the organization's
systems could be re-created from a git repo.
- Ability to troubleshoot, resolve, and explain complex problems
and discuss trade-offs of potential solutions.
- Skilled in finding, fixing, repairing, and preventing
issues.
- Ability to learn and use new applications and computer
languages, including the use of source control
- Ability to work in a twenty-four-seven (24x7) operational
environment with on-call and production support
responsibilities
- Ability to work remotely while remaining attentive, engaged,
responsive, and productive
- Knowledgeable in supporting Enterprise Java applications.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
How to Apply:
For full consideration, please attach the following as separate
documents to your application:
- A cover letter identifying the job specific minimum
qualifications you possess and interest in the position.
- A resume including all relevant experience to be accurately
assessed against the qualifications listed in the posting.
Please ensure you check the “Job Specific Attachments” box next to
each document on the “Required Documents” page of the application
for the appropriate documents to be attached.
Per the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, you are not required
to provide your date of birth, dates of school attendance, or dates
of graduation on your resume or cover letter. If an application
requires additional materials, such as a transcript or
certification, you may redact identifying information relating to
your date or birth, dates of school attendance, or dates of
graduation.
When to Apply:
For full consideration completed applications must be submitted by
November 4, 2026 . Reference checking is a standard step in
our hiring process. You may be asked to provide contact
information, including email addresses and phone numbers, for up to
five references as part of the search process for this
position.
*Please note: All application materials must be submitted through
CU Careers; emailed materials will not be considered. *
Sponsorship Statement:
We are unable to sponsor applicants for work visas for this
position.
Background Check Statement:
The University of Colorado is committed to providing a safe and
productive learning and living community. To achieve that goal, we
conduct background investigations for all final applicants being
considered for employment. Background investigations include a
criminal history record check, and when appropriate, a financial
and/or motor vehicle history. The Immigration Reform and Control
Act requires that a verification of employment eligibility be
documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of
work. The University of Colorado is committed to diversity and
equality in education and employment.
ADA Statement:
We are committed to an inclusive and barrier-free search process.
We provide accommodations for applicants requesting accommodation
through the search process such as alternative formats of this
posting. Individuals with disabilities in need of accommodations
throughout the search process should contact the ADA Coordinator
at:
systemhr@cu.edu .
