Applications Integration Developer

Description

The Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) is seeking a smart, creative applications developer/integrator to deliver software and services to our partner universities using modern devops tools and practices. 

SUMMARY: The WRLC is a collaborative partnership with nine universities (American University, The Catholic University of America, Gallaudet University, George Mason University, The George Washington University, Georgetown University, Howard University, Marymount University, and The University of the District of Columbia) providing innovative and cost-effective access to shared information resources, services and expertise.

The Applications Integration Developer builds, enhances, integrates and monitors high availability IT services responsive to the evolving needs of the WRLC partners. We manage these services with expanding use of orchestration tools (eg. Ansible), containers (eg. Docker) and cloud infrastructure (eg. AWS). The Applications Integration Developer uses Linux and open source software extensively on a daily basis. Much of the position’s work involves integrating applications with the unified library services platform (Alma/Primo), library data resources, and vendor provided web services.

QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates should have professional experience with Linux application development and systems administration, and the ability to install, configure and use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools. An important qualification is the ability and desire to independently and proactively learn and understand new technologies and applications related to academic library, higher education and scholarly research domains.

Desired qualifications include experience with enterprise applications development, deployment and management in virtual and cloud environments, and knowledge, skills and abilities with databases and search engines, web application development frameworks, and software and administration orchestration tools.

The full position description, information on how to apply, and details about WRLC's benefits offerings are available at https://www.wrlc.org/employment/applications-integration-developer