DevOps Engineer I

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

ABOUT FLORIDA POLY: Make a difference at one of Florida’s premier institutions for education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Florida Polytechnic University, ranked the No. 1 public college in the region by U.S. News and World Report, offers a unique working environment that encourages faculty and staff to be part of a culture that prizes collaboration, innovation, and the willingness to go above and beyond to ensure our students and University succeed.

SUMMARY OF POSITION: As a collaborative member of the DevOps Team in Information Technology Services, the DevOps Engineer I contributes to Florida Poly’s initiative to build an AI-operable enterprise systems environment. This position supports the development, automation, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise integrations and applications across the university’s technology ecosystem.

JOB DESCRIPTION

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of governed AI tools, integrations, and automations using approved DevOps practices, following secure coding and change control standards.
• Assist in building and operating pilot AI agent workflows, including read-only knowledge tools, recommendation systems, and draft-action workflows, and help design integrations that are AI-ready, well-documented, and suitable for future automation.
• Create and maintain structured technical documentation, including README files, runbooks, architecture notes, and operational procedures, written clearly enough for both human engineers and AI-assisted development tools.
• Respond to integration issue reports, assist in diagnosing failures, and support operational reliability by helping improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and visibility across the team’s portfolio of integrations and applications.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related analytical field, or equivalent experience.
• Entry-level to 3 years of relevant experience in software development, DevOps, cloud services, systems integration, automation, or related technical work.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with GitHub, CI/CD concepts, automated testing, and deployment pipelines.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software development using tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms.
• Interest in building secure, AI-ready integrations and applications that can be operated by humans today and AI agents in the future.
• Experience with cloud applications and SaaS platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Ellucian Banner, Workday, or Salesforce.