DevOps/Platform Engineer

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• 532306

• Remote

• Hybrid
• Remote
• Remote within Alaska

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• Grade 82
• SW OIT Applications Services

• **To be eligible for this position, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction. Applicants who now or may in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the United States are not eligible.**

The University of Alaska is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, build, and support enterprise infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. This role focuses on automation, infrastructure-as-code, and enabling teams through scalable, secure, and reliable platform services.

This position is part of the Platforms team within OIT and is responsible for building, operating, and continuously improving shared infrastructure services that support the University of Alaska system. The role spans both cloud and on-prem environments, including AWS, Azure, VMware, NetApp, F5 BIG-IP, and Active Directory / Entra ID. The engineer will work on designing landing zones, managing infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code, and developing automation pipelines that enable internal teams to provision and manage resources efficiently. This position also plays a key role in ensuring platform reliability, security, and compliance, while collaborating across teams to support enterprise systems and services.

To thrive in this role, an individual should have hands-on experience working with cloud and on-prem infrastructure, including designing and managing environments in AWS and Azure as well as supporting virtualization and storage platforms. Success in this role requires experience building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code solutions and CI/CD pipelines, along with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues across networking, identity, storage, and compute layers. Experience implementing monitoring, security controls, and disaster recovery solutions is important, as well as familiarity with integrating ident...