Western Governors University
Staff Cloud Engineer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, UT
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $140K - $217K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ May 1st, 2025
ITIL
Node.js
Python
Edtech.com's Summary
WGU is hiring a Staff Cloud Engineer. The role involves supervising work on cloud technologies and scalable architecture, leading research and analysis for complex business solutions, and enhancing application responsiveness through system improvements. The engineer will also manage the automation of software deployment, and continuously improve infrastructure for stability and scalability.
Highlights
- Supervises architecture and design of model solutions.
- Expertise required in AWS services, infrastructure automation, and system administration.
- Salary range: $140,200.00 - $217,200.00.
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field required.
- 9 years of relevant experience, particularly in automation.
- Full-time position with eligibility for bonuses and extensive benefits.
- Strong communication and documentation skills are essential.
- Experience with monitoring tools and DevOps concepts preferred.
Staff Cloud Engineer Full Description
Staff Cloud Engineer
Salt Lake City Office
Full time
If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider Craft Education as the next step in your career.
Craft Education is on a mission to solve skilled labor shortages by powering work-based learning pathways for all.
At Craft, we’re revolutionizing the apprenticeship degree, combining on-the-job learning with accredited instruction to create innovative educational pathways that accommodate working professionals and meet employer needs. Our flagship product - Craft Connect - helps organizations administer apprentice degree programs and address mission-critical data and reporting needs. Through the same platform, Craft is also transforming how on-the-job learning converts into academic credits.
Our team of technology, education and workforce professionals also provides technical assistance to organizations looking to launch and manage apprenticeship degree programs. We are working tirelessly to accelerate the expansion of these programs along with the data infrastructure that underpins them.
If you’re looking to join the work-based learning revolution, we’d love to talk with you. At Craft, you’ll have the opportunity to solve hard problems in a high-growth startup environment and make a lasting impact on the future of education and workforce development. We couldn’t be more excited to advance this work as a team of innovative, collaborative and mission-oriented professionals - we hope you’ll consider joining us.
The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
Pay Range: $140,200.00 - $217,200.00
Pay Range: $140,200.00 - $217,200.00
Job Description
Job Duties
- Supervises work on cloud technologies and scalable architecture.
- Supervises the architecture and design of complete model solutions.
- Leads and performs research and analysis to find solutions for complex business problems.
- Monitors job performance and fine-tune Spark SQL queries as appropriate regularly.
- Deploys automation of software deployment and automation tools.
- Increases application and system responsiveness.
- Monitors performance by anticipating and correcting operational issues before occurrence.
- Creates more stable operating environments by continuously improving infrastructure to be easily deployable and scalable.
- Positively impacts projects by completing assigned tasks on time.
- Communicates technical and domain knowledge as it relates to work, to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Helps continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automation, or simplifies self-service modeling and production support for customers.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
KSAs
- Expertise implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
- Experience with highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
- Expertise in infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (e.g. shell, Python, Node, Ruby, Powershell).
- Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google) or Virtualized environment.
- Experience leading cloud operations, including assurance, monitoring, alerting, and notifications
- Experience scripting/programming in Bash, Java, and Node.js
- Understanding of DevOps, Scrum, and ITIL concepts
- Understanding of Virtualization and/or Containerization
- Understanding of GitFlow model and Continuous Integration with CI tools such as Travis or Jenkins
- Experience using Configuration Management Tools such as Chef and SaltStack
- Experience using monitoring tools like New Relic, Nagios, CloudWatch or IPMon
- Experience and ability to work directly with customers creating cloud infrastructure solutions, leading conversations with key business stakeholders reviewing pros and cons, risks, and best practices.
- Ability to lead the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale or current hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.
- Effective communication and documentation skills
- Self-starter with a drive to work autonomously as a member of a collaborative team
- Strong service-oriented focus with a customer service attitude
- Strong analytical skills
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field
- 9 years of prior relevant experience, especially focused on automation
- Expertise with the standard software development life cycle (SDLC) and Agile/iterative methodologies
- Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements. Generally, equivalent relevant experience is defined as 1 year of experience for 1 year of education and is the discretion of the hiring manager.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong experience with distance education and distance learning students
- Expertise in at least one programming language
- Expertise in cloud spend optimizations and serverless technology such as AWS Lambda
- Expertise with the integration of cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP, etc.
- Expertise with compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, PCI, privacy, SOX, HIPAA, etc.)
- JSON and YAML expertise
Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.
Position & Application Details
Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.
Additional Information
Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.
Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.
Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.
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