Lead Orchestration Engineer

Job Profile:
Applications Developer 4

Job Family:
IT Applications

Time Type:
Full time

Max Pay - Depends on experience:
$114,177.00 USD Annual

Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree and seven (7) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Job Description:

The ASU Enterprise Technology (ET) office seeks a Lead Orchestration Engineer to join our ET Orchestration Engineering team. As part of ASU Enterprise Technology's Engineering Core, this position will design, build, and maintain scalable orchestration systems that automate and optimize the deployment, configuration, and management of enterprise infrastructure and services across ASU's hybrid environments. The Lead Orchestration Engineer will play a key leadership role in modernizing ASU's automation and orchestration frameworks, driving infrastructure-as-code adoption, and integrating orchestration platforms with CI/CD pipelines. This position collaborates with development, operations, and security teams to deliver reliable, efficient, and secure infrastructure solutions that enable ASU's mission of innovation and student success.

As with all members of the Enterprise Technology team, this role carries core responsibilities, including fostering a sense of belonging and cultivating a culture that is relational, visionary, and empowering. With a strong emphasis on authenticity and compassion, this position is dedicated to embodying and advancing our culture.

Salary: $94,300 - $114,177; Depends on Experience

Essential Duties:

• Leverage AI in routine tasks and contribute ideas for using AI to improve the unit's efficiency and overall performance.
• Take responsibility for fostering a positive culture, upholding organizational values, and championing engagement in all its forms.
• Collaborate across teams and actively participate in ET/ASU events and programs.
• Proactively identifies new opportunities and advocates for and implements improvements to the current state of projects, products, and services - potentially having a broader business impact across teams.
• Takes responsibility for team members' failures in workstreams and takes action to prevent them in the future; helps team members share and embrace the learnings from those failures
• Fully understands the layers of systems and appropriate tooling for each one and knows when to engage peers when personal knowledge isn't adequate.
• Build relationships and drive coordination across teams & disciplines, helping get to positive outcomes.
• Creates an inclusive environment for the team where it's safe to speak up
• Ability to model empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence
• Experience working in a values-led organization, emphasizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Ability to help foster a safe psychological space for all teammates where everyone can thrive
• Ability to stimulate changes in individual, institutional, and corporate behaviors to create a more sustainable environment
• Ability to lead by example in communicating, participating, and encouraging support of the institution's sustainability programs
• Evidence of being a team lead or experience mentoring peers
• Demonstrable talent in producing infrastructure and software/systems architecture diagrams and documentation

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to model empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence.
• Experience in a values-driven organization with a strong commitment to inclusion and belonging.
• Ability to cultivate a psychologically safe environment where all team members can thrive.
• Capacity to inspire and drive meaningful change in individual, institutional, and corporate behaviors to support a more sustainable environment.
• Commitment to leading by example through effective communication, active participation, and advocacy for the institution's sustainability programs.
• Capable of driving the overall reliability strategy of significant systems with high reliability or quality requirements
• Experience with IT practices such as Agile/Scrum, CI/CD, ITIL, peer reviews, continuous improvement, security testing, vulnerability management, etc.
• Experience in scripting/automation to reduce repetitive tasks, including server and application deployments
• Demonstrable experience designing data models and database architecture, as well as configuring and deploying relational and non-relational database systems
• Experience in effectively deploying updates and fixes
• Experience in providing Level 3 technical support
• Experience building tools to reduce the occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Ability to develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems
• Experience developing scripts to automate the visualization of system reliability
• Experience designing procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Technical tools, languages, concepts, and experiences relating to this job

• Experience/certifications for public cloud (primarily AWS, but also Azure and Google Cloud)
• Understanding of virtual machine/hypervisor/container technologies (Nutanix AHV, VMWare, Xen, Docker, Podman, LXD)
• Experience with Linux and/or Windows OS, including patch management and system maintenance
• Demonstrable scripting skills (i.e., Bash/Ksh, Powershell, Perl, Python, Ruby)
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools (i.e., Ansible, SCCM, DSC, Terraform, Jenkins)
• Experience with DevOps orchestration tools (i.e., Kubernetes, Helm, Docker Swarm, Nomad, Rancher, Red Hat Openshift)
• Experience with serverless computing and microservices platforms across different cloud providers (i.e., AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS ECS/EKS Fargate, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, etc.)
• Experience with storage technologies, including block and object storage solutions (i.e., EBS, EFS, S3, GCS, CIFS/SMB, NFS/AFS)
• Experience managing and building with job orchestration tools such as AWS Batch, AWS EMR, Hadoop, Prefect, BMC Control-M
• Experience utilizing and/or managing enterprise-scale data orchestration and analytics services and tools (i.e., IBM Datastage, Alteryx, Prefect, Mulesoft, Kafka, AWS Glue, AWS Athena, AWS Redshift, AWS RDS, StreamSets, Splunk, Tableau, SSRS, Google BigQuery, Google Analytics, etc.)
• Experience with physical and cloud network concepts and principles (i.e., OSI model, TCP/UDP/ICMP, VRFs, VLANs, VPCs, Security Groups, routing, NLB/ALB/ELB, NGFW, WAF, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, RNAT/SNAT, Zero Trust, etc.)
• Experience with network services (i.e., NTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP)
• Experience with secure secrets management using Hashicorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager

Working Environment:

• Activities primarily take place in a standard, climate-controlled office environment and may involve extended periods of sitting, standing, or moving between office spaces.
• This role involves regular use of a computer (desktop and/or laptop), including a keyboard and mouse.
• Effective communication and proficiency with a variety of technologies are essential for collaboration with the broader team.
• Required to stand for varying lengths of time and walk moderate distances to perform work.
• Regular responsibilities may require the ability to quickly change priorities, which may include and/or are subject to the resolution of conflicts.

Primary Location: Tempe

Department Statement:

Enterprise Technology (ET) embraces its role as both an enabler and catalyst for advancing the vision and work of the New American University. We are a values-driven organization. Our commitments are reflected in all of the work we do in pursuit of operational excellence, the experience and delight of our community, and our strategic and innovation initiatives. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.

Join the team that sparks human-centered innovation

ET is a rapidly reconfigurable and entrepreneurial organization at ASU that prioritizes and executes to meet the needs of our community of learners, faculty, researchers and staff. Our work emphasizes autonomy, flexibility and distributed decision-making to leverage the strengths of individuals. Together, we embrace a culture that nurtures, engages and embraces many voices with a shared lens of positive community impact and expanded opportunities for collaboration.

Why join us?

Mission oriented. Everything we do is to advance ASU's charter -- measuring who we include and how they succeed. We are staunch champions of learner success and put people first.

Flexibility. Our flexible work environment allows employees to explore opportunities with their supervisor beyond the traditional work schedule. Opportunities include hybrid work where staff are in person three days per week.

Culture forward. We embrace a Positive Core culture: Belonging, Relational, Authentic, Visionary and Empowered.

Scale of impact. Our work changes the world. With 200k+ learners, faculty, researchers and staff, working with ET means you have the capacity to improve many lives and entire communities.

World-class, low-cost education. Our professional development is built in! ET encourages staff to seek additional certificates and degrees via ASU's top ranked programs with major tuition breaks.

Exposure to industry giants. ET partners with Amazon, Apple, Arista, Cox, Verizon, Salesforce, Alteryx and a diversity of technology companies to enhance our innovations and deepen their impact.

Driving Requirement:
Driving is not required for this position.

Location:
Off-Campus: Scottsdale

Funding:
No Federal Funding

Instructions to Apply:

Current Employees and Students should apply directly within Workday using the Jobs Hub. Use this link and log in using SSO:
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• Cover letter
• Resume/CV

Note: Multiple documents can be submitted into the attachment box. Alternatively, merge all documents into one PDF for submission.

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Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions inclusive excellence, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

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