Staff Cloud Engineer - Craft Education
Western Governors University3 days ago
Nashville, TN, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$161k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable cloud architectures and enterprise-grade solutions.
- Supervise and contribute to the development, optimization, and deployment of Apache Spark workloads and cloud technologies.
- Research, analyze, and solve complex business and technical problems.
- Monitor job performance and optimize Spark SQL queries for efficiency and responsiveness.
- Build and maintain automation for software deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and operational workflows.
- Identify and resolve operational issues proactively to protect system performance and reliability.
- Partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders on reporting, analytics, automation, production support, and cloud infrastructure initiatives.
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of business-critical software and infrastructure at scale.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience may substitute for education.
- Nine years of prior relevant experience.
- Expertise implementing AWS services in distributed computing environments and deploying highly available, fault-tolerant enterprise or web-scale systems.
- Expertise in infrastructure automation using Shell, Python, Node.js, Ruby, or PowerShell.
- Strong Linux and Windows systems administration experience in cloud or virtualized environments.
- Experience leading cloud operations, including monitoring, alerting, notification management, and operational assurance.
- Experience with Bash, Java, and Node.js scripting and programming.
- Experience with virtualization, containerization, GitFlow workflows, continuous integration, configuration management, and monitoring tools.
- Experience working with customers and business stakeholders to design cloud infrastructure solutions and evaluate risks, tradeoffs, and best practices.
- Strong analytical, communication, technical documentation, customer service, and service-oriented skills.
- Preferred qualifications include distance-learning support, a modern programming language, cloud cost optimization, serverless technologies, enterprise-platform integrations, compliance and risk management, and JSON and YAML proficiency.
- The position requires occasional travel of up to 20%, including company summits, conferences, company-location visits, and other business events.
Benefits
- Full-time regular position with 40 standard weekly hours and eligibility for bonuses.
- In-office work from the downtown Nashville, Tennessee office.
- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth, mental healthcare, health savings account, and flexible spending account benefits.
- Basic and voluntary life insurance, disability coverage, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity supplemental coverage.
- Legal and identity theft coverage and a retirement savings plan.
- Wellbeing program and discounted WGU tuition.
- Flexible paid time off, flexible paid sick time, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leave including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
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About Western Governors University
Western Governors University is a nonprofit, accredited online university offering competency-based bachelor’s and master’s degree programs for working adults in business, IT, teaching, and healthcare. It operates a tuition-based model with flat-rate terms that let students advance as they demonstrate proficiency. Founded in 1997 by 19 U.S. governors and based in the Salt Lake City, Utah area, WGU serves students nationwide through fully remote instruction and support.