"Manager, Middleware"

Posted: 18-Jan-26

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Internal Number: 311979

Employment Type: Permanent Staff (EHRA NF)

Vacancy ID: NF0009494

Salary Range: $120,000 - $150,000

Position Summary/Description:

This position is a 100% remote work arrangement, consistent with System Office policy. UNC Chapel Hill employees are generally required to reside in North Carolina, within a reasonable commuting distance of their assigned duty station.

This position provides management support for the Java application server infrastructure, Learning Management system infrastructure, reporting (SAS, lnforporte and Tableau), and Application Performance Monitoring. This position is responsible for strategic decisions about technologies used in support of the above systems. This position will also have supervisory responsibility for the team supporting each of these systems, including the full employee lifecycle.

This position also has responsibility for the front-facing web infrastructure for UNC Chapel Hill, including www.unc.edu, web.unc.edu, and sites.unc.edu along with all their hosted domains. This also includes the support for end user and departmental applications written in various languages supported on www.unc.edu, the package space under www.unc.edu, and the OpenShift environment, Carolina Cloudapps.

This position is responsible for operational security across all Data, Reporting Environments & Application Middleware (DREAM) and makes recommendations and risk advisories to the Director as well as their senior staff and ITS Security. This role will also include being the DREAM Privacy Office liaison and serve as part of the DREAM Delegated Security Authority (DSA) team.

This position further has responsibility for the ITS managed Splunk installation, which aggregates and indexes the logs from our servers and services, as well as many from campus units.

This position is responsible not just for developing and training the staff reporting to it, but for developing and training ITS and campus development and systems employees on the use of these tools.

Education and Experience:

Demonstrated experience with the following technologies:

• OpenShift Container Platform, including ACM and ACS
• Splunk
• Tableau
• GitLab
• Apache
• Ansible
• F5 Web Application Firewall

Previous experience with any software development and/or script writing is desired as it helps relate to the customers we support.

Essential Skills:

Ability to analyze and solve complex problems, as well as communicate technical information about problems to persons with a wide variety of levels of expertise. Demonstrated experience in security incident analysis. Strong communication skills and the ability to work well with others and lead group activities. Strong, broad technical knowledge to include system administration, networking, virtualized environments and storage solutions. Multiple years of demonstrated experience with log aggregation, container technologies, source code control systems and Kubernetes.

AA/EEO Statement:

The University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all to apply without regard to age, color, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.