Senior DevOps Engineer

Company: The Regents of the University of California on beh
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Department SummaryThe Digital Foundry sets the strategy to accelerate the adoption of industry leading practices across technology modernization domains, supporting a portfolio of enterprise-wide products and platforms that enable the activities of academic and administrative stakeholders across the university. The Digital Foundry team focuses on three main pillars:

• Human-Centered Product Strategy and Design: including product discovery, user-research, accessibility, UX, and UI services.
• Cloud and DevOps Strategy: supporting the evolution of our cloud and engineering capabilities across infra, data, and product delivery teams, championing a cloud-first approach coupled with automation and AI capabilities.
• Solutions Architecture: fostering the implementation of cohesive end-to-end solution architectures, ensuring baseline interoperability, reliability, scalability, and security capabilities.Position SummaryThe Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and evolving robust software engineering and DevOps practices following industry leading practices tailored to UCLA's specific needs. This role will focus on innovation, automation, and scalability of engineering and DevOps practices while enabling efficient and effective software development practices. Leveraging a high level of expertise in DevOps principles, practices, and tools, the Senior DevOps Engineer will collaborate with product, infrastructure, and security teams to design end-to-end engineering and DevOps practices. Additionally, this role will bring technical thought leadership, drive the adoption of modern engineering methodologies for large technology transformation initiatives, and support the automation of CI/CD pipelines.The Senior DevOps Engineer will positively impact UCLA's operations and culture by optimizing software and product development in service of the university's academic mission. This team member will advance the University's mission by delivering exceptional information technology services comprehensively and consistently across faculty, staff, and students. This role will execute UCLA's vision while modeling UCLA's culture and values.Salary & Compensation*UCLA provides a full pay range. Actual salary offers consider factors, including budget, prior experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business considerations. Salary offers at the top of the range are not common. Visit to discover benefits that start on day one, and to calculate the total compensation value with benefits.Qualifications
• Five years experience working in one or more of the following fields: Cloud engineering, DevOps, software engineering, or related field. (Required)
• Extensive experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), build automation tools (e.g., Jenkins), containerization (e.g., Docker), and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible). (Required)
• Experience participating in activities to advance an inclusive environment that values equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. (Required)
• Experience working in a project-based environment using leading project management practices. (Required)
• Experience in complex higher education environments, serving academic and administrative functions of a large public university. (Preferred)
• Seven or more years experience working in one or more of the following fields: Cloud engineering, DevOps, software engineering. (Preferred)
• Strong expertise in DevOps principles, practices, and tools, with significant experience in IT operations, software development, or related roles. (Required)
• Demonstrated expertise in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes. (Required)
• Strong scripting and programming skills (e.g., Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl) for automation and tooling. In-depth knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation). (Required)
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and system administration concepts, and experience with Linux and Windows operating systems. (Required)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate complex technical ideas to a diverse community of colleagues and stakeholders. (Required)
• Able to establish and advance positive working relationships and a strong rapport with a diverse community of colleagues including team members, stakeholders, and customers. (Required)
• Advanced organizational skills and the ability to balance competing priorities and deliver concurrent projects to various stakeholder types. (Required)
• Advanced problem-solving skills; ability to uncover the root of difficult problems and scope solutions based on knowledge of available resources and timelines as well as awareness of vision and strategy. (Required)
• Thinks creatively and introduces innovations such as the incorporation of new technologies or processes. Thrives in an ever-changing, fast-paced environment. (Required)Education, Licenses, Certifications & Personal Affiliations
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent combination of experience/training. (Required)
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science. (Preferred)
• AWS, Azure, GCP: DevOps Professional or equivalent (Preferred)Special Conditions for Employment

• This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement that includes regular visits to campus as needed (for those who work remotely, travel/lodging expenses are not eligible for reimbursement).
• The anticipated pay range for this position is $134,309 - $148,732, annually; salary is dependent upon the skills and experience of the selected finalist.
• NOTE: This position REQUIRES that a RESUME and COVER LETTER be submitted in addition to the application. Please have these two files ready to upload when applying.
• Background Check: Continued employment is contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory background investigation.
• Live Scan Background Check: A Live Scan background check must be completed prior to the start of employment.Schedule8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. PT, Monday through Friday and/or variable based upon operational needs.Union/Policy Covered99-Policy CoveredComplete Position Description
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