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Infrastructure Developer - Humanities Commons and MESH Research
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Position Number: 2793263
Location: East Lansing, MI
Position Type: Computer and Information Technology

Infrastructure Developer - Humanities Commons and MESH Research

Infrastructure Developer

The Infrastructure Developer will be responsible for designing, supporting, and improving the research technology infrastructure used by the MESH Research team (http://www.meshresearch.net) at Michigan State University, including the systems supporting Humanities Commons and other projects within the College of Arts & Letters. The Infrastructure Developer will work with colleagues to design and develop these systems and will maintain their security and stability, as well as that of the data they contain.

This role will be ideal for a developer interested in connecting to and understanding the enterprise systems being deployed by MSU as a whole, while being in a position where experimentation and implementation are not only desired but encouraged. Our projects provide the opportunity for creativity and innovation that may not be possible on a centrally located cloud computing team.

The person in this position will:

Manage and develop our existing AWS and other backend infrastructure

Collaborate with team members and other IT professionals at MSU and beyond to build, deploy, and maintain services that support our projects and priorities

Work with the team to design, develop, and test highly scalable systems to support future platform expansion

Improve logging, instrumentation, graphing, and monitoring

Monitor data and server security and audit systems for vulnerabilities

Document systems and processes so that they can be managed by others on the team when you're away

Track and resolve user and team issues

Monitor service costs and make optimizations to keep our AWS bill in check

Design a backup strategy and maintain a disaster recovery plan

Respond to the occasional late-night server alert, and come up with ways to correct and prevent their causes

The ideal candidate will demonstrate experience with the skillset below. However, we invite you to apply even if you have not currently mastered all of the skills listed. We seek someone with the ability to collaborate and to expand their technical skill set in creative ways; we're happy to discuss whether you have the experience and approach we need for this role.

The person in this position should have:

Experience operating complex cloud infrastructures on AWS

Experience with multiple server-side languages (including PHP, Java, and Python)

Experience with open-source infrastructure software (including MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Ansible, and others)

Experience managing Linux systems

Experience with user, group, role, and policy for access management

Strong attention to security and privacy issues

Highly developed interpersonal skills

Intellectual curiosity

The ability to work both independently and collaboratively with internal and external team members

A passion for free and open-source software and academy-owned infrastructure

Additional things we'd love to find include someone with:

Experience working with and/or developing web APIs

Experience with WordPress administration and/or development

Experience in a higher education setting or in a federated IT environment

The College of Arts & Letters (CAL) promotes an academic and organizational culture that actively seeks out and strengthens diverse voices and perspectives among its members to achieve excellence. We are interested in candidates of all backgrounds who are committed to the principle that intellectual leadership is achieved through open access and proactive inclusion. We seek candidates with integrity and a strong work ethic, who possess an understanding of what it takes to continuously improve and maintain research projects within a major academic research institution.

We particularly welcome applications from women, people of color, LGBTQI individuals, and others who are traditionally underrepresented in the academy.

Applicants should apply on-line at https://careers.msu.edu/

Qualified applicants should submit:

a cover letter, including a statement describing your alignment with position requirements and goals

a current curriculum vitae or résumé

links to examples of prior development work

email addresses of 3 potential references.

For more information, contact Scott Schopieray, Search Committee Chair, schopie1@msu.edu and please look at our slideshow with more specifics about us and our work at http://go.cal.msu.edu/Hcid22

Persons with disabilities have the right to request and receive reasonable accommodation.

MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. MSU is committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The university actively encourages applications and/or nominations of women, persons of color, veterans, and persons with disabilities.