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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Application & Infrastructure Engineer - **Company:** University of Colorado - **Location:** Aurora, CO, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $78,051.0 - $93,143.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Active Directory, Apache HTTP Server, Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Databases, System Configuration, Continuous Integration, Data Infrastructure, Linux, Multi-Factor Authentication, Middleware, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, PostgreSQL, Linux System Administration, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Servers, MySQL, Nginx, Node.Js, OAuth, OpenID, Oracle (Applications), Performance Tuning, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Shell Script, Single Sign-On, Systems Integration, Virtualization Technology, Software Vulnerability Management, Web Services, Data Logging, Enterprise Software Applications, Load Balancing, Boomi, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Web Technologies, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Docker, Jenkins, Mulesoft - **Published:** October 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=05aa475e334c5f53 ## About the Role * Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills across complex, multi-tier enterprise systems. * Experience administering Linux and/or Windows server environments, including configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tuning, automation, and shell scripting. * Experience supporting cloud-based applications, virtualization technologies, container workloads, and enterprise infrastructure platforms. * Knowledge of information security principles, standards, frameworks, and best practices. * The ability to communicate complex technical information to technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across teams. * Curiosity, initiative, sound judgment, and a commitment to continuous learning and service excellence., * Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a closely related field. + Substitution: 4 years of professional or high-level technical work experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree. An associate's degree with two years of relevant work experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree 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., * 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. * Experience with enterprise monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability platforms. * Experience supporting common web technologies including Apache, NGINX, Node.js, PHP, Web Application Firewalls, and Load Balancers. * Experience administering enterprise database platforms including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL/MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. * Experience with CI/CD platforms and tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps. * Experience supporting Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) technologies such as Boomi or MuleSoft. * Familiarity with Identity and Access Management technologies including Active Directory, SAML, OAuth/OIDC, SCIM, Oracle Identity Governance, Oracle Unified Directory, Oracle Identity Domains, and Grouper. * Experience working within higher education, healthcare, research, or other complex enterprise environments. Conditions of Employment: * Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship. We are unable to provide work visa sponsorship or employment authorization for this position now or in the future. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Demonstrated curiosity, initiative, and commitment to continuous learning and professional growth. * Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills. * Ability to prioritize competing demands and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. * Ability to work independently while effectively collaborating within cross-functional teams. * Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. * Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills. * Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. * Knowledge of information security principles, standards, frameworks, and best practices. * Experience administering Linux and Windows server environments. * Experience with administering container workloads with technologies such as Docker, Podman or Kubernetes. * Experience supporting virtualization technologies and enterprise infrastructure platforms. * Experience supporting cloud-based applications and services. * Ability to troubleshoot complex multi-tier systems spanning applications, containers, operating systems, databases, directories, networking, identity platforms, and cloud infrastructure. * Proficiency in Linux administration including system configuration, patching, troubleshooting, performance tuning, automation, and shell scripting. * Strong customer service orientation and commitment to service excellence. ## Description Are you an experienced application and infrastructure engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems and building reliable, secure enterprise platforms? Do you thrive at the intersection of applications, servers, cloud services, identity, integrations, databases, and automation? Join Information Strategy and Services (ISS) and help support the technology foundation that enables the University of Colorado Anschutz to advance education, research, healthcare, and service to our communities., 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. This role supports critical server, cloud, identity, integration, database, and application environments while helping improve reliability, security, performance, and operational efficiency., This is a hands-on opportunity for an experienced engineer who enjoys troubleshooting complex systems, automating operational work, partnering across technical teams, and continuously improving enterprise services. The position also participates in periodic after-hours outage and patching support. * 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. * Perform application upgrades, patches, configuration changes, migrations, release support, and lifecycle management activities. * Monitor application availability, performance, logging, integrations, and service health, and diagnose complex disruptions in coordination with technical teams and vendors. * Implement security controls, system hardening, vulnerability remediation, and monitoring practices that support university standards and regulatory requirements. * Develop and maintain automation for application administration, deployment support, configuration management, monitoring, and operational workflows. * Support backup, recovery, continuity, failover readiness, and restoration validation for critical application platforms. * Create technical documentation, standard operating procedures, architectural diagrams, and support resources while providing guidance and knowledge sharing across the team., You will work across a broad enterprise technology ecosystem rather than within a single platform. The role combines application engineering, infrastructure operations, security, automation, service reliability, and technical leadership, providing an opportunity to make a visible impact on the stable and secure technology services that support the CU Anschutz mission. If you're excited to strengthen enterprise platforms, improve reliability through automation, and solve challenging technical problems with a collaborative team, we want to hear from you!