Development Security Operations Engineer III - 531106

🇺🇸 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ November 10th, 2026

Python AWS BigQuery

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University of Alabama is hiring a Development Security Operations Engineer III - 531106. The role sits in the Alabama Water Institute and supports its NOAA-funded hydrology research program (the Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology), building and maintaining the deployment infrastructure behind its research software platforms. The engineer also tracks security baselines and findings so the platforms stay ready for compliance reviews.

Highlights

Build and configure containerized deployments across development, staging, and production environments.
Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for the institute's research software platforms and related tools.
Oversee software releases across multiple repositories, including version tagging, changelog maintenance, and deployment verification.
Monitor and maintain secret scanning and security baseline tooling, and document security findings to support compliance review reporting.
Mentor and supervise lower level engineers as needed.
Hold a master's degree with two years of development operations experience, or a bachelor's degree with four years, with equivalent combinations of lower degrees and longer IT experience also accepted.
Show strong proficiency in AWS and Google Cloud Platform, Infrastructure-as-Code with CloudFormation, and Python, JavaScript, React, or a similar language, along with networking, object storage, and BigQuery knowledge.
Preferred experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Singularity, Git, and GitHub Actions, plus open-source contributions and a multi-cloud DevOps background.
Pay starts at a minimum of $74,900 with a midpoint of $101,100 (Salaried E12), working Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, with continuation of the position contingent on external funding.