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Middleware Systems Administrator Sr

Position Number: 6233375
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Position Type: Computing - Network/System Administration

Middleware Systems Administrator Sr

Job Summary

University Information Technology (UIT) has an opening for a Middleware Systems Administrator Sr. (DevOps) position within the Software Platform Services team. This position is responsible for designing and implementing secure, highly available and scalable middle tier and web hosting infrastructure solutions. The position will interface directly with development, production support, and QA teams and maintain a high level of visibility with entire team. This role will support and maintain the production environment along with the build and release processes which includes the supporting tools.About UIT: University Information Technology (UIT), the central IT service provider for campus, reports to the Chief Information Officer and is responsible for many of the University of Utah's most critical common IT resources including the campus network; the Campus Information Services (CIS) portal; UMail, telephone, and online collaboration services; high performance and research computing; information security; teaching and learning technologies; software licensing; and a host of other systems and services. For more information about UIT visit http://www.it.utah.edu.About the University: Located in Salt Lake City, in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains, the University of Utah is the flagship institution of the State of Utah's system of higher education and a member of the PAC-12 Conference. Salt Lake City combines the amenities of a major metropolitan area of more than one million people with the friendliness and ease of living of a small, Western city. Seven major ski resorts are within an hour's drive from campus, and opportunities to pursue activities from biking to hiking to fishing abound. Salt Lake is also home to the Utah Symphony and Opera, the Utah Ballet, several professional sports teams, and a wide range of other cultural and recreational activities. http://www.employment.utah.edu/staff/work.php

Responsibilities
- Designs, installs, administers, and maintains highly available and scalable middle tier and web hosting infrastructure solutions running Linux OS.
- Builds, releases and configures management of production systems using automated configuration mgmt. tools (e.g. Puppet*, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack).
- Implements and/or improves continuous delivery of software.
- Provides operational and engineering support for continuous integration, rapid deployment, and testing of software for both infrastructure and product use.
- Installs new software releases and system upgrades, evaluates and installs patches, and resolves software related problems.
- Designs/develops, tests, and implements automated administrative tasks related to the middle-tier and web hosting infrastructure.
- Monitors capacity and analyzes information concerning processing time, response times, application/software, CPU loads, etc. for future growth and proactively informs management of potential areas of concerns, makes recommendations, and provides capacity planning/metric reports.
- Collaborates with service owners to configure applications that meet the business needs.
- Conduct technical evaluations on new products and features and provides recommendations and directions for implementation.
- Creates and maintains technical documentation on critical processes and standards.

This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.Work Environment and Level of Frequency typically requiredNearly Continuously: Office environment.Physical Requirements and Level of Frequency that may be requiredNearly Continuously: Sitting, hearing, listening, talking.Often: Repetitive hand motion (such as typing), walking.Seldom: Bending, reaching overhead.

Minimum Qualifications
Require a bachelor's degree in a related area, or equivalency (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience), and 3-5 years of experience in the field or in a related area.

Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.

Preferences
System administration (RHEL*, Ubuntu*)
Automated configuration management tools (e.g. Puppet*, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack).
Application servers (WebLogic, Apache Tomcat*, Tuxedo, Glassfish*, JBoss, IIS)
Knowledge and understanding of Jenkins, Atlassian products (Bitbucket/Stash, Wiki), GIT, Crontab
Shell scripting and/or a programming language.
Web Servers (Apache* with PHP, Nginx)
AWS, Azure or GCP
Load balancing (F5*, Netscaler)
Experience with Docker and related tools a plus (Kubernetes*, Mesos, Swarm)
Knowledge and understanding of APIs, Microservices, and API authentication (Oauth, JWT)
API Gateways (WSO2*, Kong, Zuul, Tyk)

Special Instructions

Requisition Number: PRN41924B
Full Time or Part Time? Full Time
Work Schedule Summary: This position is an Exempt position with required daytime hours of Monday to Friday from 8:00 am. to 5:00 pm. This position is an on-call position. In person work is required.
Department: 01555 - UIT INFRASTRUCTURE & OPS
Location: Campus
Pay Rate Range: $100,000.00 - $131.300.00
Close Date: 8/15/2025
Open Until Filled:

To apply, visit https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/182600