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 WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

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: $116,000.00 - $174,100.00

Job Description

The Senior Cloud Engineer provides architectural direction and implementation for cloud-based infrastructure and networking solutions. They direct and support the engineering efforts for student and employee facing infrastructure technologies. They'll also mentor team members in strategic and tactical efforts. They are the in-house expert on design, automation, and scaling solutions in a cloud-based environment.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
• Designs and implements roadmaps for cloud-based data infrastructures
• Monitor server performance and capacity loads; ensuring accessibility and availability
• Implement automation for cloud platforms; establish monitoring and alerting systems
• Design and maintain server, storage, network, and partner in security infrastructure
• Seeks solutions and helps provide the tools and infrastructure for a DevOps to the development team.
• Mentor other DevOps and Cloud Engineers
• Work with engineers to create and maintain documentation for infrastructure systems, policies and procedures
• Provide Amazon AWS solutions to current projects and initiatives
• Duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities

• Strong communication skills.

• Strong documentation/writing skills.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
• At least 7 years as a Developer in a Full-stack capacity.
• At least 3 years’ experience with AWS Cloud Services
• Comprehensive experience with AWS including a solid understanding of CI and CD, Amazon S3, RDS, EC2, SQS, IAM and Route 53
• Experience with web application development in distributed and parallel systems, developing large scale and highly concurrent software systems, and security software development.
• Experience with Amazon Serverless Services (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, CloudFront, and Cloudwatch).
• Experience with at least two general purpose programming languages (Java, nodeJS, or Python, etc.)
• Front-End experience with React and/or Angular.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in information technology or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Chef Experience
• VMWare vSphere and vRealize Automation Experience
• Working Conditions

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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.

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 Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. #DEI