Solution Architect Senior - Ann Arbor, United States - University of Michigan

Description

Solution Architect Senior / Intermediate

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How to Apply

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

Summary

Health Information Technology & Services (HITS) is seeking a candidate to join the Academic IT organization as a member of the DevOps Engineering team, dedicated to ensuring software developers across Michigan Medicine have access to the tools and infrastructure needed to deliver secure and reliable software. As a DevOps Engineer, you will help drive excellence by providing the foundation required for innovative and mission critical software solutions across the institution. The mission of our organization is to enhance the education of future doctors, assist researchers in collaborating on the future of medicine, and improve patient care.

The DevOps team is comprised of engineers responsible for the tools supporting the build and deployment of software within Michigan Medicine. Our team culture empowers you to take ownership of your work and its outcome. This is a unique opportunity for self-motivated individuals to work with a highly innovative team. We are looking for candidates who are able to work collaboratively to resolve problems and have a high tolerance for complexity and ambiguity. You must have a deep understanding of various development tools and technologies. This is a hands-on technical role where you will be expected to take charge of problems and take the initiative to design and deliver solutions. We expect the team to have a strong desire to learn, researching and applying new technologies and methods as needed.

This posting encompasses two positions, one at the senior level and another intermediate. Candidates for either are encouraged to apply and will be evaluated based on experience and skills.

Responsibilities*

Work closely with Software Development teams, Information Security and Operations teams (DevSecOps) to understand requirements, design, build, document and maintain a fully automated Container Pipeline Hosting Service.

Support deployment to multiple environments, including Cloud Kubernetes, local container hosting and Linux systems.

Build and design enterprise use of CI/CD pipeline software such as Jenkins, Nexus, GitLab and SonarQube

Build and design Enterprise Cloud Application services

Define and improve the build & release practice by working with development teams and educating others

Identify, plan, and implement automation and environment management activities

Enable groups outside your own team to securely and easily perform day to day tasks

Level 2 production and operational support of a variety of enterprise applications

Be available outside of business hours to respond to service incidents as part of an on-call rotation

Build relationships with Development and Operations teams and drive enhancements to the end-to-end release process

Review entire environment infrastructure and execute initiatives to reduce failures and improve overall performance

Troubleshooting production availability issues in a complex environment

Manage and prioritize competing tasks from various stakeholders

Additional Responsibilities - Senior Level

Mentor junior staff, including code reviews and postmortems

Overall Architecture design

Required Qualifications*

Requirements for Senior Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

5 years combined experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, software development, or infrastructure administration (DBA, Sysadmin or similar)

Expertise in cloud architecture principles or container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and experience with interpersonal conflict resolution

Expertise in a programming language

Required for Intermediate Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

2-4 years combined experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, software development, or infrastructure administration (DBA, Sysadmin or similar)

Familiarity with cloud architecture principles or container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes

Expertise in a programming language

Desired Qualifications*

Hands on experience with Web services and API related transformations

Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline design/architecture enhancements

Demonstrated design experience using build, automation, and configuration tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, Rundeck/Ansible Tower, Ansible/Puppet/Chef, Git/GitLab

Experience with communicating and building good testing practices

Strong information security focus and knowledge of how to add security and compliance to infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines

Demonstrated success with high availability, failover, or clustered environment setups

Experience in project management, negotiation, and conflict resolution

Demonstrated success analyzing and designing solutions to complex or ambiguous problems

Expertise with Cloud provisioning, design, security and network configuration

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Experience with log management and log aggregation tools such as Splunk, DataDog

Experience with Web server configuration, monitoring, and network design

Expertise with container runtimes and tools like Docker, CRI-O, podman

Experience with Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, OpenShift, Terraform

Experience with lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters

Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code using Git

Release process automation using GitOps

Experience configuring and managing load balancers for serving applications (such as Citrix ADC/Netscaler or Google Cloud Load Balancer)

Monitoring applications such as Prometheus or Nagios

Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD) and Operator design and development

Familiarity with agile development methodologies

Underfill Statement

This position may be underfilled at a lower classification depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate.

Additional Information

Benefits

We offer a benefits package that includes comprehensive training and career development opportunities, generous retirement savings plans, ample paid time off, and a wealth of family care support:

Diversity Statement

HITS is firmly committed to advancing inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, and belonging, which are core to the culture and values of Michigan Medicine. Our community supports recruiting and cultivating a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the diverse people of Michigan and the world. We strive to create a work culture where each team member feels respected, valued, and safe.

Background Screening

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Job Detail

Job Opening ID

249650

Working Title

Solution Architect Senior / Intermediate

Job Title

Solution Architect Senior

Work Location

Michigan Medicine - Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

Full/Part Time

Full-Time

Regular/Temporary

Regular

FLSA Status

Exempt

Organizational Group

Exec Vp Med Affairs

Department

MM HITS AcadIT Dev Ops

Posting Begin/End Date

5/29/ /12/2024

Career Interest

Information Technology

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