DevOps Engineer - Technology Solutions

Under general direction, designs, implements, and optimizes secure, scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines supporting enterprise technology services and the University AI Platform. Serves as a technical resource for DevOps practices including Infrastructure-as-Code, container orchestration, security-first automation, and observability. Contributes to the formalization of DevOps-as-a-Service offerings, mentors other engineers and student employees, and collaborates across teams to ensure reliable, compliant, and automated delivery of software and platform services. Duties Responsibilities: Design and implement secure, scalable infrastructure for the University AI Platform and enterprise services using Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerization technologies. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) ensuring AI tools and applications meet security, accessibility, and compliance standards. Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies such as GitHub Copilot with organizational standards. Collaborates with senior technical staff to align on priorities and technical direction. Contribute to containerization roadmapping and prototype new concepts to improve and innovate within the team. Collaborate with the security team to implement automated security scanning, accessibility scanning, dependency checking, and compliance validation within CI/CD workflows. Define and recommend security guardrails and least-privilege access controls across EntraID, AWS, and Azure environments for review and approval by senior staff. Build secure data pipelines enabling AI access to university data while maintaining FERPA compliance. Implement Splunk observability dashboards for monitoring data integrity, platform performance, and system health. Support the formalization and scaling of DevOps-as-a-Service by documenting learnings and developing self-service tooling and reusable automation patterns for campus-wide adoption. Maintain and optimize GitHub Actions, TDX iPaaS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and Lando environments with consistent standards and maximum ROI. Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and disaster recovery plans. Mentor and guide mid-level DevOps engineers, junior developers, and student employees. Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to build long-term institutional DevOps capacity. Must be available for on-call schedule and off-hours work. Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.