Fast Facts

WGU is hiring a Staff Cloud Engineer to oversee cloud technologies and scalable system architecture, driving technical leadership and mentoring within the team while ensuring best practices in system architecture and automation.

Responsibilities: This role involves supervising cloud technology teams, advising on system architecture, implementing automation processes, and troubleshooting performance issues, as well as mentoring team members and communicating findings effectively.

Skills: Required skills include expertise in AWS, cloud automation with IaC, Linux and Windows systems administration, DevOps practices, and strong communication abilities.

Qualifications: Preferably 10 years of software development experience with a focus on cloud optimization, compliance, and risk management, along with expertise in standard SDLC practices.

Location: This position is based at WGU Tennessee, United States.

Compensation: $140200 - $217200 / Annually

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:

Grade: Technical 410Pay Range: $140,200.00 - $217,200.00

Job Description

The Staff Cloud Engineer is a position of technical expertise, influence, and leadership in the technology realm. This position will be required to apply their expert knowledge to ensure best practices and well-engineered architecture across the department. They will also be a key stakeholder and initiator of major changes to processes, engineering practices, and system administration. This position will be required to work in a space of solving critical issues and initiatives across multiple teams. It will require an extensive and deep understanding of cutting-edge practices and innovative approaches to problems.

Job Duties

• Supervises work of their team on cloud technologies and scalable system architecture.
• As a technical leader, the Staff CE mentors and monitors the goals and progress towards those goals, of their team.
• Advises on and implements the architecture and design of system architecture models.
• Leads and performs research and analysis to find solutions for complex business problems, as they relate to infrastructure.
• Creates and uses automation, IaC, for the release life-cycle of software products.
• 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 and communicates effectively when problems arise that would prevent timely delivery.
• 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 the creation of IaC; Terraform is nice to have, but not required.
• Security awareness and practices, and the ability to configure, and monitor security systems for application of MFA, SSO and other security based concerns such as SSL/TLS, DNS DMARC, DKIM and SFP.
• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in AWS(major) and GCP (minor)
• Experience leading cloud operations, including assurance, monitoring, alerting, and notifications
• Understanding of DevOps and ITIL concepts
• Understanding of Containers and Containerization Orchestration via Fargate and Kubernetes
• Understanding Continuous Integration with CI tools such as Travis or Jenkins
• Experience using monitoring tools like DataDog, New Relic, or Dynatrace
• Experience creating cloud infrastructure solutions, and leading conversations with technical leaders
• 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 is nice to have, but demonstrable skills are more important.
• Expertise with the standard software development life cycle (SDLC)
• 10 years of experience in software development; pioneering new approaches and technologies in engineering
• Expertise in cloud spend optimizations
• 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.

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 [email protected].

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.