University of Chicago
Senior DevOps Engineer
Chicago, IL, USA · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- As a senior member of this small, high-autonomy team, you will ensure software development and operational best practices are effectively integrated across our services and AWS infrastructure.
- You will work both collaboratively and independently on complex issues and projects, in some cases making progress under minimal guidance.
- You will also embed with select software engineering teams to provide operational and infrastructure guidance on best practices.
Responsibilities
- Architecture and Design: Participate in the definition and documentation of cloud infrastructure architecture - networking, monitoring, logging, security, backup, and deployment - across production and development environments.
- Design new systems and tools, identify opportunities for technical improvement, and review and test solutions to ensure standards are met.
- Build and Release Automation: Maintain and evolve the machine-image and deployment supply chain - Packer-built AMIs produced through AWS CodeBuild, published via SSM Parameter Store, KMS-encrypted and shared cross-account.
- Monitoring and Observability: Maintain the current monitoring and alerting systems (self-hosted Nagios/NRPE with configuration generated from live AWS inventory, CloudWatch alarms, PagerDuty routing) and help in the migration to Prometheus.
- Security Operations and Compliance: Contribute to Globus's security plan, controls, monitoring, and reporting. Extend in-house continuous-compliance automation, operate intrusion detection and endpoint protection tooling, maintain hardened machine images.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, lead incident response, and author root-cause analyses.
- Support: Act as a technical consultant and resource for other team members, including the engineering and user-support teams, assisting with operational issues and troubleshooting.
- Designs new systems, features, and tools. Solves complex problems and identifies opportunities for technical improvement and performance optimization. Reviews and tests code to ensure appropriate standards are met.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Requirements
- include a college or university degree in related field.
Nice to have
- Experience automating infrastructure in Python - maintainable, reusable libraries rather than only scripts, using boto3 - and in Bash.
- Linux administration and troubleshooting across Ubuntu and RPM-based distributions, including systemd, syslog/rsyslog, storage, and SSH/sudo configuration.
- Networking, firewalls, routing, and DNS
- web servers and TLS.
- Experience with check-based monitoring, particularly self-hosted Nagios/NRPE, to operate, extend, and update.
- Incident management and on-call practice using a platform such as PagerDuty, and writing root-cause analyses.
- Preferred Competencies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including clear technical documentation and post-incident analyses.
Skills
- Globus Systems Operations
- About the Department
Compensation
- $150,000.00 - $170,000.00 The included pay rate or range represents the University's good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.
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Benefits
- Yes The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off.
- Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.
Company info
- Candidates may also be asked to complete an in-person interview as part of the selection process.
- We are looking for a senior engineer equally comfortable improving a build pipeline and debugging a production incident, and who will be a leader and educator both within and across teams.
Equal opportunity
- Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-5800 or submit a request via Applicant Inquiry Form.
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