Full Time: Systems Engineering Senior

UW Information Technology (UWIT) is the central information technology organization for the University of Washington, responsible for strategic planning, oversight, and direction of the UW’s IT infrastructure, resources, and services. UWIT provides critical technology support to all three campuses, UW medical centers, and research operations around the world. UWIT partners with the UW community to enable innovation, learning, discovery, and service.

IT Infrastructure provides knowledgeable system design and administration, software engineering, and operational support for academic systems, administrative systems, and research computing. The Computing and Storage team designs, implements, and operates enterprise-level virtual and physical servers, as well as data storage services (storage area networks, network-attached storage, backups, and archiving).

The position is responsible for delivering ongoing operational support for Azure resources and managed server environments, ensuring reliability and performance for customers while building “you get me” relationships.

The position participates directly on migration project teams as part of the University’s Azure Migration Program (AMP), ensuring that newly migrated workloads meet operational, security, monitoring, and governance standards prior to handoff into steady-state operations. As more customers transition their workloads to Azure, this position provides proactive expert lifecycle support to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable managed and cloud services for customers across the University.

An invested, compassionate, team-oriented IT professional, this position directly supports the research, teaching, and administrative missions of the University to ensure trusted solutions are delivered.

Oversees complex and innovative engineering efforts, ensuring technical quality and consistency across solutions. Member of the Cloud Center of Excellence, contributing to inform cloud architecture decisions, providing technical expertise, and helping drive adoption of best practices across engineering and external application teams.

Support active migration project efforts, assisting in requirements gathering, readiness validation, operational configuration, and post-migration stabilization.

Establish and maintain governance, monitoring, cost-management, and compliance baselines.

Support customers with differing cloud maturity levels, many of whom rely on UW-IT to fully operate their cloud-hosted systems.

Apply automation-first approaches (PowerShell, Terraform, Azure Automation) to manage operations at scale.

This position manages, builds new, and sustains critical cloud infrastructure supporting administrative, research, clinical, and academic functions across the University. The work performed directly affects the reliability, security, and performance of University services. As the cloud footprint grows, this position plays a critical role in ensuring:

Secure and compliant configurations aligned with enterprise standards.

Scalable, cost-effective, and predictable managed-service operations for customers across the institution.

Proactively makes technical decisions on design, implementation, performance, and reliability.

Cloud/Systems Engineer (70%)

Design, configure, and manage Azure virtual machines, storage, networking, identity integrations, and monitoring configurations.

Support active Azure migration project work, including workload validation, operational readiness, post-migration stabilization, and documentation of new environments.

Implement and maintain automation pipelines for configuration management, patching, compliance, backup, and deployments.

Manage and optimize cloud-native data platforms, including Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance.

Troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure issues and ensure resilient operations.

Provide lifecycle operational support for customers relying on UW-IT’s managed cloud server services.

Proactively monitors and optimizes the performance and cost of the Managed Azure environment; Communicate openly and effectively with all project teams, partners, and stakeholders.

Anticipates technical debt and advocates for long-term fixes that benefit the unit’s productivity.

Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience

Five years of experience as an engineer supporting enterprise IT infrastructure, including cloud-based systems.

Expertise in Microsoft Azure, including VM management, networking, storage, indentity, and governance.

Hands-on experience migrating, configuring, and tuning Azure SQL Database or Managed Instances.

Working Environmental Conditions:

Hybrid role, 2 days on-site per week.

Standard business hours with participation in an on-call rotation is required; Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Temporary or Regular?

FTE (Full-Time Equivalent):

Union/Bargaining Unit:

UW employees bring their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to building stronger minds and a healthier world. In return, they enjoy outstanding benefits, opportunities for professional growth and the chance to work in an environment known for its diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

The University of Washington is committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful and welcoming community for all. As an equal opportunity employer, the University considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, or veteran status consistent with UW Executive Order No. To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at View phone number on click.appcast.io or View email address on click.appcast.io .

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.