Ellucian

Sr. Cloud Engineer

Ellucian
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Remote, United States or Reston, VA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$127k - $127k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and support scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS or Azure.
  • Build and manage repeatable infrastructure deployments using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Collaborate with development teams to design and enhance CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implement and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Apply cloud security practices involving IAM, encryption, secrets management, and compliance standards.
  • Support cloud-native SaaS and hybrid environments involving Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SQL Server, and IIS.
  • Automate operations, optimize cloud performance and cost, and improve reliability and efficiency.
  • Partner with software engineering, product, and support teams to align infrastructure with application and customer needs.
  • Mentor junior engineers and promote infrastructure engineering best practices.
  • Own infrastructure components from design through deployment and ongoing operations.
  • Diagnose complex system issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement durable resiliency and scalability improvements.
  • Maintain technical documentation and participate in requirements sessions, technical design reviews, and peer feedback.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or foreign educational equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • At least 36 months of experience in the offered role or a closely related infrastructure or DevOps engineering position.
  • Three years of experience managing production environments on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Three years of experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi; Python, Bash, or PowerShell; and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
  • Three years of experience with cloud-native networking, load balancers, VPCs, storage, compute, and managed services.
  • Three years of experience with Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS, ADFS, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM in hybrid cloud deployments.
  • Three years of experience with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic, or ELK stack.
  • Three years of experience with IAM, encryption, secure networking, and compliance frameworks.

Benefits

  • Full-time position.
  • 100% remote work from anywhere within the United States.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureBashDatadogGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle CloudGrafanaJenkinsMicrosoft SQL ServerPowerShellPrometheusPythonTerraform

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About Ellucian

1,001-5,000 employees

Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 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, including data-rich tools for 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 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

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