Systems Integration Engineer 3 - 140205

UC San Diego is ranked the 9th best public university in the nation by U.S. News and World Report and is the largest employer based in San Diego County.

Reporting to the VC-CFO, Information Technology Services (ITS) delivers Enterprise information technology services to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the leadership of the campus Chief Information Officer (CIO). Information Technology Services (IT Services) uses world-class services and technologies to empower UC San Diego's mission to transform California and the world as a student-centered, research-focused, service-oriented public university. As a strategic member of the UC San Diego community, IT Services embraces innovation in their delivery of IT services, infrastructure, applications, and support. IT Services is customer-focused and committed to collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are core values at UC San Diego and within Information Technology Services. Crafting a culture around these values allows us to more deeply connect with and appreciate our employees, students, and campus partners. Information Technology Services is continuously working to build a community where we all feel safe, empowered, and encouraged to bring our authentic selves to work. We do this not only because it is what's right, but because we know that diversity drives insight and innovation. We are proud to partner closely with UC San Diego's Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, as their dedication to this mission helps us all to drive change.

With broad impact across UCSD's multi-billion-dollar research and education enterprise, Academic Technology Services (ATS) provides a variety of digital technology services to faculty, research staff, postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students, including all academic departments, schools and divisions. ATS coordinates across campus IT providers (including ITS, SDSC, Calit2, the Library), the Schools, Divisions, Departments and labs, Academic Affairs, Research Affairs, Teaching and Learning Commons, and other critical stakeholders to deliver coordinated services critical to all aspects of the research and education enterprise.

Academic Technology Innovation, an ATS team, is responsible for multiple instructional and research services at UC San Diego, including the Data Science and Machine Learning Platform, Canvas learning management system integrations, lecture capture administration and postprocessing, and student entitlements provisioning via the Grouper Access Management platform.

Are you a DevOps engineer interested in delivering high-quality technology tools to a large academic community? Join ATS as a Systems Integration Engineer to create and optimize enterprise integrations and web applications. The successful candidate will collaborate with a team of career and student employees, using various programming languages (Python, Java, .NET) and testing frameworks; platforms for streaming/managing data workflows (Airflow, NiFi, Kafka); student entitlements systems (Grouper); CI/CD tools (Github Actions, Bamboo, Artifactory, Gradle, Terraform); containers (Docker); and cloud architectures and frameworks (AWS, Lambda).

Responsibilities:

* Applies skills as a seasoned, experienced software professional to design, write, test, deploy and maintain multiple academic technology service offerings and projects, including student entitlement provisioning.

* Leverages continuous integration and deployment tools to automate development processes.

* Develops middleware to integrate webapps with campus and cloud-based enterprise systems via open source libraries, APIs and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTIs), using standard authorization and authentication systems .

* Use artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to improve academic processes.

* Instructs junior staff and student employees on a wide range of DevOps concepts.

• Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.

• Advanced skills associated with software design, modification, implementation and deployment, including object-oriented programming concepts. Skilled in building, maintaining, and debugging complex web applications and integrations written in languages such as Python, Java, C#/ASP.net, and JavaScript, leveraging platforms such as Airflow, Kafka and NiFi. Experience with Python web frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask.

• Demonstrated software repository skills. Demonstrated testing and test planning skills. Knowledge of modern software development methodologies (such as SCRUM/Agile) and use of modern project management and source code control systems and workflows to develop code in a multiperson, distributed workflow.

• Experience with container-based Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) in a DevOps environment. Write and automate unit, integration and UI tests that are automatically run in containers prior to committing new code, using CI/CD frameworks such as github actions, Bamboo, or Jenkins. Familiarity with Gradle/Maven builds. Deploys applications using frameworks such as CloudFormation, Atlantis, or Teraform.

• Familiarity with access management systems such as Grouper for student entitlement provisioning.

• Experience with container technologies, such as Docker. Familiarity with image deployment frameworks such as Helm and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.

• Demonstrated understanding of and ability to design and implement systems which use relational database systems, including an understanding of SQL, RDBMS theory, indexing and optimization, data integrity and security, views, and journaling.

• Work schedule will be Hybrid, will be required to be onsite a few times a month.

• Employee must be available to work evenings and weekends.

• Job offer is contingent upon satisfactory clearance based on Background Check results.

• Employee must be available to travel as required.

• All interviews conducted for this position will be required to be in person onsite.