Senior Application & Infrastructure Engineer

Job Summary:

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.

About the Role

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.

What You’ll Do

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.

What You’ll Bring

• 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.

Work Location:

Hybrid – This position is eligible for a hybrid work environment. AMC ISS strives for a high-flex work environment, meaning although this role may predominately be executed effectively with a remote schedule, there may be instances where in-person meetings and/or activities are needed. There is no minimum or prescribed in-person requirement. The work schedule will be based around core working hours in Colorado Mountain Time.

Why Join Us:

Information Strategy and Services (ISS) partners across the campus to deliver information technology services that empower teaching, learning, research, and patient care. ISS is organized into three core functions: Technology & Infrastructure, Security & Compliance, and Business Strategy. Together, we connect service and technology.

Our work is guided by six shared principles that connect our teams and shape how we serve our customers:

• Curiosity- Explore beyond one’s own experience and environment.

• Compassion- Demonstrates empathy, understanding, and respect for all people.

• Collaboration- Partner well beyond our space and build partnerships to achieve organizational results.

• Commitment- Dedication and engagement one has to their job, team, organization and university.

• Competence- Know our craft and be committed to continuous improvement and learning.

• Confidence- Be empowered and assured to represent our customers and their needs.

Active investment in our culture and our people is foundational in developing and delivering service excellence. ​To cultivate a people centric workplace, we do the following:

• Growth & Development: Our Workforce Development Program builds critical skills and supports career advancement.

• Empowered Managers: Leaders are trained in coaching and team effectiveness to drive success.

• Open Communication: Stay connected through monthly town halls and annual summits.

• Wellness Focus: We prioritize employee well-being with supportive wellness initiatives.

• Coaching Culture: Continuous learning and feedback are part of how we grow together.

• Flexible Work: We offer flexible arrangements whenever possible to support work-life balance.

Click here to find out more about ISS’s Culture

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!

The University of Colorado offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, life insurance, retirement plans, tuition benefits, ECO pass, paid time off – vacation, sick, and holidays and more. To see what benefits are available, please visit: https://www.cu.edu/employee-services/benefits-wellness.

Why work for the University?

We have AMAZING benefits and offer exceptional amounts of holiday, vacation and sick leave! The University of Colorado offers an excellent benefits package including:

• Medical: Multiple plan options

• Dental: Multiple plan options

• Additional Insurance: Disability, Life, Vision

• Retirement 401(a) Plan: Employer contributes 10% of your gross pay

• Paid Time Off: Accruals over the year

• Vacation Days: 22/year (maximum accrual 352 hours)

• Sick Days: 15/year (unlimited maximum accrual)

• Holiday Days: 15/year

• Tuition Benefit: Employees have access to this benefit on all CU campuses

• ECO Pass: Reduced rate RTD Bus and light rail service

There are many additional perks & programs with the CU Advantage.

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