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Ellucian

Lead Cloud Engineer

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Reston, VA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ October 23rd, 2025

CI/CD Kubernetes SaaS

Edtech.com's Summary

Ellucian is hiring a Lead Cloud Engineer. The role requires providing technical leadership to a team of cloud engineers, designing and maintaining scalable cloud architectures, and managing projects using CI/CD tools and Jira. The engineer will accelerate multi-cloud solutions using AWS and Microsoft Azure, implement Kubernetes best practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Highlights
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to cloud engineering teams
  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable cloud architectures
  • Use CI/CD tools and gitops methodologies for automation and deployment
  • Lead development and new automations across server and container instances
  • Manage and lead projects in Jira for technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Accelerate multi-cloud solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure
  • Implement best practices for Kubernetes in complex, scalable environments
  • Required 5+ years experience with AWS or Azure, automation scripting, and CI/CD tooling
  • 2+ years experience working with Kubernetes in CI/CD pipelines using tools like Puppet, Chef, Salt, Gradle, TravisCI, GitLab, JavaScript, Packer, Perl
  • 3+ years experience collaborating with global, cross-functional, remote teams

Lead Cloud Engineer Full Description

About Ellucian
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,800 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
 
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.

About the Opportunity
Ellucian Company LLC has a fulltime opening for Lead Cloud Engineer in Reston, VA Remote/telecommuting benefits available - may work from home. Duties are to provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of cloud engineers. Design, implement, and maintain scalable reliable cloud architectures. Work with CI and CD tools using gitops methodologies. Lead development and oversee new automations that will be used across our fleet of instances of servers and containers. Lead collaborate efforts with cross functional teams. Manage and Lead projects in Jira from both a technical and non-technical perspective. Accelerate our multi cloud solution with Amazon and Microsoft Azure. Implement best practices for Kubernetes for a scalable complex environment. Requires a Bachelor's degree or its foreign equivalent in Computer Science or Computer or Software Engineering or in an IT or Software related field (higher degree will be accepted but not a minimum requirement). Plus 5 years progressive & post-bachelor's experience in IT position in Cloud Computing environment. Experience must include: 5 years in the following: using AWS or Azure; in developing and deploying automation and scripting using multiple tools; working with CI/CD tooling; 2 years in the following: with Kubernetes working in a CI/CD pipeline; using Puppet, Chef, Salt, Gradle, TravisCI, GitLab, JavaScript, Packer, Perl; 3 years in collaborating with cross functional global and remote teams with diverse backgrounds.

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