University of Virginia

ITS at UVA is seeking a Manager of Devops and Solutions

ITS is a phenomenal place to lead, grow, and deliver impact. It is an organization that values results and teamwork. We like the people we work with and the work we get to do. We strive to create a welcoming and supportive workplace where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic selves and share ideas. We embrace a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. ITS values work-life balance and provides flexible work location options where possible. Please see additional information about joining our team.

Benefits Include: The choice between 3 different health plans; vision and dental insurance; life insurance; benefits savings accounts; starting with 22 days of paid time off a year in addition to 12 or more paid holidays; 8 weeks of paid parental leave; short term disability; up to $4,360 after your first year for combined use of tuition toward a degree-seeking program or up to $2,000 for professional development including classes, certification training and conferences; and more!

Broader Strategic Leadership

• General research-based solution architecture – determining requirements of scale, right-sizing, platform choice, data orchestration/movement, etc.
• Communicate / interface with stakeholders, leadership, or researchers regarding RC services and features. Help rule some projects in/out.
• Adopt and articulate a vision for cloud, cloud-like, and cloud-native design patterns. What should be offboarded to the cloud? What do cloud providers do that we should replicate?
• Advise RC leadership on longer-term strategies and investments. Contribute to a vision for RC five years into the future, and longer vision for the University when possible.
• Evangelize automation and code-based deployments. For everything. [Key litmus test: are humans shelling into machines to support deployments?]
• Champion all efforts around data collection and analysis of data collected across all RC infrastructure and usage. Learn patterns, detect anomalies, with an eye toward anticipating issues.
• Lead efforts and understanding around containerization and software deployment lifecycles. This includes an awareness of trends in development, workflows, and emerging platform features.

Technical / Tactical Group Leadership

• Manage the DevOps and Solutions team including performance evaluations, human resource inquires and charting career development strategies. Communicate with Director of Infrastructure Services for Research computing about staffing needs and adjustments.
• Lead technical efforts and vision around SSZ Kubernetes: (i) tooling; (ii) feature roadmap; (iii) documentation; (iv) training/samples around deployments. Seek ways to support HPC and HTC workflows through K8S.
• Support research deployments and interface with US team to support training, troubleshooting, and documenting the inventory of applications.
• Leverage the SSZ and HSZ K8S clusters to offer a (reasonable) set of other services useful to HPC and on their own: databases, secrets management, message queues. Look for future services/features to test or put on roadmap.
• Design technical requirements for new HSZ Kubernetes to sit next to Neo: (i) tooling to match SSZ as possible; (ii) features unavailable in zone; (iii) automation-integration with Neo (Jack Van Horn group); (iv) deployment options within zone.
• Lead technical efforts around the support of IVYWEB: (i) daily operations; (ii) future development.
• Work with team to ensure continuous operations and research-appropriate levels of HA / DR for systems we touch. Planning of 1-3x annual rolling updates across clusters. Daily monitoring of outages or failures.
• Support public-facing web resources, including RC websites, APIs, integrations – on-premises and AWS cloud services. Preserve public website functionality external to UVA outages and issues.

To Apply:

Complete an application online please click the following link:

https://jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/ and search R0058737

1. Cover letter to include your interest in the position and your knowledge, skills, abilities, and experiences

2. Resume or CV

For questions about the application process, please contact Bill Crane, Senior Academic Recruiter, xer5ff@virginia.edu

For more information about UVA and the Charlottesville community please see www.virginia.edu/life/charlottesville and https://embarkcva.com/

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: High School Diploma, Bachelor's Degree Preferred.

Experience: 3 years.

Licensure: None.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.