DevOps Engineer

About the Opportunity

Qualified applicants, please submit resume to [email protected]. Ref # R122674

DUTIES :

Monitor the Liferay portal system to ensure quality service to Northeastern students/faculty/staff. Manage the execution of all portal change requests which includes portal configuration changes and content changes. Perform new environment standups as needed. Manage the shutdown, recovery, and testing of all impacted applications during operating system patching cycles. Manage Liferay administrations and user/groups as required. Coordinate with System, Network, and Enterprise Application teams to troubleshoot portal-related issues. Participate in after-hours support for assistance in production recovery or time-sensitive changes which can only occur outside of standard business hours. Cross-team mentoring and training to assist in propagating application knowledge to other team members. To ensure that essential services are provided to the university community, the employee will be required to work outside their regular working hours as needed. Position is fixed and based in Boston, MA office; however, telecommuting from a home office location is allowed.

REQUIREMENTS : Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or a directly related field plus two (2) years of technical experience as a Software Developer, Liferay Administrator, or related occupation.

Must have a minimum of one (1) year of experience in the following (experience may be gained concurrently):

• Working with AWS cloud platform.
• Developing infrastructure as code for portal applications on AWS.
• Fundamental knowledge and development/deployment application experience within Liferay portal.
• Building portlets/modules within Liferay CMS tool.
• Building and deploying microservices on AWS.
• Apache Tomcat server administration and configuration, and optimization of performance.
• Management, maintenance, and deployment with Apache Tomcat.
• Experience with migrating applications from on-prem to AWS.
• Defining, documenting, evolving, and evangelizing high engineering standards and best practices across multiple areas.

Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. 40 hours/week.

Qualified applicants, please submit resume to [email protected]. Ref # R122674

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Position Type

Information Technology

Additional Information

Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate work experience, education and skills when extending an offer.  

Northeastern has a comprehensive benefits package for benefit eligible employees. This includes medical, vision, dental, paid time off, tuition assistance, wellness & life, retirement- as well as commuting & transportation. Visit https://hr.northeastern.edu/benefits/ for more information.  

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff.  Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion. 

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other  characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University’s commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity .