Position: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Davis, CA (Hybrid Role)

Job Details:

• Under general supervision of the Associate Director of Dev Ops, this position works on a team of Senior DevOps and Systems Administrators in a cloud native environment.
• Risk and Safety Solutions (RSS) provides web and mobile applications and technical expertise in support of Risk Services and Environmental Health and Safety at the University of California.
• The DevOps Engineer focuses on rapid IT service delivery and continuous integration in AWS Cloud environment through the adoption of agile practices, and improves collaboration and communication between development and operations groups as well as other IT stakeholders such as business intelligence and information security.
• The DevOps Engineer ensures continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, infrastructure as code, scripting of server configuration, and repeatable process automation.
• Assist the help desk team in automating operating system administration support continuity and security.
• Responsible for writing scripts to automate common tasks, as well as configure firewall rules and policies.

Department Purpose

• Risk and Safety Solutions creates and supports an information technology environment
• that enhances the ability of the UC community to teach, do research, and provide public service.
• RSS supports four major system-wide programs at 10 UC campuses and 5 Medical Centers.
• These include Environmental Health and Safety, Risk Management, Occupational Health, and Worker's Compensation.
• The DevOps Engineer is a part of the Risk and Safety Solutions team that is responsible for the development, implementation, maintenance

Minimum Education/Experience

• Experience writing scripts to automate common programming, deployment and server tasks (e.g. bash, Python, Node.js, etc.).
• Experience building and scaling cloud environments such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience configuring server networking including a strong understanding of HTTP and web services.
• Experience with Docker and Docker orchestration such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, gitops and configuration management tools such as Terraform, FluxCD, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, CloudFormation.
• Experience maintaining continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting databases such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, ElasticSearch, graph databases and MongoDB.
• Experience with backups, disaster recovery and resiliency of sensitive and mission critical data, databases and infrastructure.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA):

• Knowledge of advanced security best practices and policies including experience securing complex server-based software.

Preferred Education/Experience:

• Experience with auditing, log management, remote access, authentication, firewall, VPN, antivirus and intrusion detection tools and other security hardening tools and techniques.
• Experience configuring server networking including understanding of HTTP and web services.
• Experience with TCP/IP networking including cloud infrastructure, office networks and firewalls.
• Experience writing and troubleshooting Node.js and Java web applications.
• Experience as a DevOps engineer in agile environments.
• Experience in working in a service-oriented team environment supporting various operating systems and providing technical support for supported IT Services software applications

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Oral, written and interpersonal communication skills to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical audiences and stakeholders.