The Digital Humanities Technology Specialist is the DevOps engineer and 
technical developer within NYU IT Research Technology and NYU Libraries 
Specialized Research Services, a group that encompasses Data Services (DS) and 
Digital Scholarship Services (DSS). This Specialist will work alongside IT 
staff, librarians and researchers to plan and develop cutting edge research 
infrastructure that will advance the state of humanities and social science 
scholarship. This position builds capacity for emerging scholarly research 
environments, supports specialized repository development and growth, and works 
in concert with the Digital Library Technology Services group and NYU Research 
Technology to investigate and implement solutions for machine access and 
delivery of digital library collections of interest to scholars.

 

Required Education:
Bachelor's Degree

 

Preferred Education:
Master's Degree Master's degree in computer science, data science, engineering 
or other technical field is strongly preferred. or

 

Required Experience:
3+ years relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and 
experience. Demonstrated experience in supporting information technology, 
development, programming or coding/scripting.

 

Preferred Experience:
1+ years demonstrated practical and theoretical experience with digital 
humanities, data science, statistical analysis, or geospatial methods is 
preferred and will be considered in lieu of a Master's degree. or 1+ years 
Experience in an academic environment, preferably in Libraries and/or IT. 
Comfort working with colleagues and end-users to troubleshoot technical 
problems. Experience making contributions (code and governance) to open source 
projects. Experience or familiarity with numeric, text, or spatial datasets 
and/or customization of common content management systems (Omeka, WordPress) is 
highly preferred.

 

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
High-level proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Python; 
experience with Bash (shell scripting), JavaScript, and/or Ruby; knowledge of 
Unix command line utilities, Git, web server administration, and interaction 
with APIs and database systems. Experience cleaning and optimizing data in 
various forms. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

 

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
Familiarity with Data Services, Digital Humanities, or Geospatial Analysis. 
Familiarity with digital scholarship tools and methods, including text analysis 
(natural language processing), web scraping, machine learning. Administration 
of data infrastructure; including web development (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript) 
and infrastructure work (shared hosting environment, AWS, Tomcat, Apache/nginx, 
SSL certificate management, Postgres and MySQL databases, DNS), and several web 
applications comprising the spatial data infrastructure (geoblacklight, 
GeoServer, Apache Solr, Phusion Passenger, PostGIS); interest in working on 
digital library systems.

 

Additional Information:
EOE/AA/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

 

Apply at 
https://uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/5966/digital-humanities-technology-specialist/job?mode=apply&apply=yes&in_iframe=1&hashed=-336115631


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