Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Classification Title:

Infrastructure Platform Engineer IV

Classification Minimum

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area and four years of relevant experience;
• or a high school diploma or equivalent and eight years of relevant experience.
• Appropriate college coursework may substitute at an equivalent rate for the
• required experience.

Job Description

UF Information Technology (UFIT) is currently seeking a professional-level

Infrastructure Platform Engineer to join Infrastructure and Communication

Technology (ICT) a unit within UFIT.

This position is within the Artificial Intelligence & Platform Engineering team

which is tasked with providing artificial intelligence capabilities and building

platforms while ensuring high availability and reliability of campus services.

Competitive candidates will be self-motivated, organized, and eager to learn

with outstanding communication skills. You will work on projects that span

across enterprise deployments and be exposed to new technologies and tools.

UF Information Technology (UFIT) enables teaching, learning, research, and

service on campus and across the region with state-of-the-art enterprise IT

systems, including SEC and SUS universities, and the opportunity to teach using

HiPerGator.

Some key responsibilities and characteristics of this position are:

• Manage and improve services under the NaviGator AI suite.

• Work with constituents who want to leverage AI capabilities in their current

processes and provide consulting services to campus.

• Deploy and manage enterprise platforms that can be used by UFIT staff to

deliver innovative solutions and enhance our constituent’s user experience.

About UF Information Technology

Led by Senior Vice President and CIO Elias Eldayrie, the nine departments

comprising UFIT are: Academic Technology; AI² Center; Applications, Development,

and Integrations; Business Center; Customer Experience and Resource Planning;

Data Platform and Analytics; Information Security Office; Infrastructure and

Communication Technology; and Research Computing. UF Information Technology

(UFIT) enables teaching, learning, research, and service on campus and across

the region with state-of-the-art enterprise IT systems, including SEC and SUS

universities, and the opportunity to teach using HiPerGator. For more

information about UFIT and its goals and governance,

visit https://it.ufl.edu/about-ufit/strategic-plan/

[https://it.ufl.edu/about-ufit/strategic-plan/].

About the University of Florida

One of America’s all-around best universities, the University of Florida

[https://ir.aa.ufl.edu/] drives future-making education, eye-opening

discoveries, life-saving health care, and community-building collaboration for

our state, our nation, and our world. UF is in Gainesville, a city of

approximately 150,000 residents in North-Central Florida, 50 miles from

Florida’s West Coast, 67 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, and within a 2-hour

drive to large metropolitan areas (Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville). The beautiful

climate and extensive nearby parks and recreational areas afford year-round

outdoor activities, including hiking, biking, and nature photography. UF’s large

college sports programs, museums, and performing arts center support various

activities and cultural events for residents to enjoy. Learn more about what

Gainesville has to offer at Visit Gainesville.

[https://www.visitgainesville.com/]

Exceptional Benefits

UF provides various leave [https://hr.ufl.edu/leave] programs based on an

employee’s salary plan, including vacation, sick leave, holidays, personal leave

days, and paid family leave. In addition to paid time off, the University of

Florida offers a very competitive benefits [https://hr.ufl.edu/benefits/]

package.

Expected Salary:

$98,000 ; commensurate based on education and experience.

Required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area and four years of relevant experience;
• or a high school diploma or equivalent and eight years of relevant experience.
• Appropriate college coursework may substitute at an equivalent rate for the
• required experience.
• Preferred:
• The ideal candidate will possess the following education, experience, and
• skills:
• • Enterprise level experience managing virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters,
• and container workloads in hybrid environments.
• • Enterprise level experience managing and deploying cloud resources in at least
• one of the major cloud providers (i.e. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure,
• Google Cloud Platform).
• • Advanced experience in installing, managing, updating, and troubleshooting
• Linux and Windows-based systems and applications.
• • Advanced experience leveraging observability tools for logs, metrics, and
• traces to monitor systems and applications.
• • Advanced experience with relational database platforms such as PostgreSQL.
• • Expertise in configuration management tools such as ansible, puppet, and chef
• • Expertise in orchestration tools such as Terraform.
• • Expertise in scripting/programming languages such as Python and Golang.
• • Expertise in Rest API scripting and automation.
• • Expertise in using source/version control platforms such as Gitlab, GitHub.
• • Expertise in building automation pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions,
• Jenkins.
• • Familiarity with leading Generative AI models such as Llama, GPT, Claude, and
• Gemini .
• • Familiarity with creating and leveraging AI agents in process automation and
• improvement is a plus.
• Special Instructions to Applicants:
• Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position
• This is not a remote work position and is located in Gainesville, FL.
• A Level 2 Criminal Background Screening is required.
• [https://policy.ufl.edu/policy/criminal-background-screening/]
• Applicants are required to submit the following with their application:
• • Cover Letter
• • Resume
• • List of professional references with contact information (Minimum of 3 with
• one from a previous or current supervisor)
• Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (E.T.) of the posting end date.
• This requisition has been reposted. Previous applicants are still under
• consideration and need not reapply.
• Health Assessment Required: No