Senior Application & Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

Company: University of Colorado
Location: U0001 — Anschutz Med Campus or Denver – 22140 – ADM AVC OIT Administration
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $78,051 – $93,143

About the Role

The Senior Application & Infrastructure Engineer is a senior member of the IAM and Data Infrastructure (IDI) team responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient enterprise technology platforms at the University of Colorado Anschutz.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, administer, maintain, and support enterprise application platforms and services, including single sign-on and multifactor authentication services.
• Administer application environments across on-premises and cloud-hosted platforms, including middleware, web services, databases, integrations, containers, and identity-enabled applications.
• Support backup, recovery, continuity, failover readiness, and restoration validation for critical application platforms.
• Develop and maintain automation for application administration, deployment support, configuration management, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Monitor application availability, performance, logging, integrations, and service health, and diagnose complex disruptions.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a closely related field (or 4 years of professional/high-level technical work experience).
• 2 years of progressively responsible experience supporting applications in the enterprise environment, systems administration, cloud services, platform operations, or site reliability engineering functions.
• 2 years administering enterprise Linux and/or Windows server environments.
• Experience administering enterprise database platforms including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL/MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

• 5 or more years of experience as a Systems Administrator, Infrastructure Engineer, Operations Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer.
• Experience supporting public cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Experience with infrastructure automation, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Familiarity with Identity and Access Management technologies including Active Directory, SAML, OAuth/OIDC, SCIM.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance options.
• Retirement 401(a) Plan with 10% employer contribution.
• Paid Time Off: 22 vacation days/year, 15 sick days/year, 15 holiday days/year.
• Tuition Benefit access on all CU campuses.
• ECO Pass for reduced rate RTD Bus and light rail service.

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.