Applications Programmer 3

Description

The Library Information Technology Services (ITS) Program develops, implements, and supports sustainable, high quality technology services. The Information Technology Services Program provides technical systems and solutions in support of all UC San Diego Library Programs and their associated strategic imperatives. To facilitate communication and coordination, the Information Technology Service program aligns its service offerings with associated Library programs and provides technical and project management expertise as needed to support the objectives of those programs.

The ITS Development and Web Services team is seeking an experienced software developer to join our team. To remain at the forefront of research, discovery, teaching, and service, UC San Diego strategically and purposefully integrates equity, diversity, and inclusion into all of its efforts. Successful applicants will have demonstrated commitment to working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and will be expected to engage in the mission of building an inclusive community that fosters equal opportunity for all members .This position contributes to the development of the Library Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), a digital repository designed to store and manage digital assets of UC San Diego. This includes Library digital assets as well as research data curated from across UC San Diego as part of the Integrated Digital Infrastructure initiative(http://idi.ucsd.edu/). Research data includes scientific, medical, social science, arts, and humanities data. This position supports existing DAMS applications and services in addition to developing new features and capabilities to allow for better search and discovery, ingestion and management of content, creation of exhibits, as well as integration with the larger research and library communities such as the Digital Public Library of America(http://dp.la/), SHARE(http://www.share-research.org/), and the California Digital Library(http://www.cdlib.org/).

The Digital Collections web application in the DAMS environment is a Ruby on Rails web application using the open source Hydra(http://hydraproject.org) and Blacklight(http://projectblacklight.org/) projects. UC San Diego Library is a committed Hydra partner and contributor along with a growing worldwide community of over 47 licensed contributing institutions and 180 licensed contributing individuals. The DAMS repository backend will use Fedora 4 (http://www.fedora-commons.org/), an open source repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content. This position is expected to monitor and contribute to both the Hydra and Fedora open source communities as needed.

This position also works in close collaboration with the Library Operations group to continually refine and optimize the software development, deployment automation and release management workflows and processes. This includes the evaluation, implementation and configuration of continuous integration and deployment using tools such as Bamboo, Jenkins, Travis CI, Capistrano, Vagrant and Ansible. The position also contributes to the configuration and workflow integration of static analysis and test suite automation services such as Code Climate, Coveralls, Rubocop, and Gemnasium.