# Staff Cloud Engineer

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: Nashville, TN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $161,000.00 - $249,500.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

We are seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to join our team at WGU, working in partnership with Craft Education. As a senior technical leader, you will design, architect, develop, and optimise scalable cloud-based solutions. You will partner closely with software development teams, architects, and infrastructure engineers to build reliable, efficient, and secure platforms.

The salary range for this position is $161,000.00 - $249,500.00.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the design and implementation of scalable cloud architectures and enterprise-grade solutions.

- Supervise and contribute to the development, optimisation, and deployment of Apache Spark workloads and cloud technologies.

- Research, analyse, and solve complex business and technical problems.

- Monitor job performance and optimise Spark SQL queries to improve efficiency and system responsiveness.

- Build and maintain automation for software deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and operational workflows.

- Proactively identify and resolve operational issues before they impact system performance and reliability.

- Partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders to communicate solutions, drive initiatives, and continuously improve reporting, analytics, automation, and production support processes.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or a related field.

- 9 years of prior relevant experience.

- Expertise with the standard software development life cycle (SDLC) and Agile/iterative methodologies.

- 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.js, Ruby, PowerShell).

- Strong Linux and Windows systems administration experience in cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) or virtualised environments.

- Experience leading cloud operations, including monitoring, alerting, notification management, and operational assurance.

- Experience scripting and programming in Bash, Java, and Node.js.

- Understanding of DevOps, Scrum, and ITIL concepts.

- Understanding of virtualisation and containerisation technologies.

- Experience with GitFlow workflows and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins or Travis CI.

- Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef and SaltStack.

- Experience using monitoring tools such as New Relic, Nagios, CloudWatch, or IPMonitor.

- Experience working directly with customers and business stakeholders to design cloud infrastructure solutions while evaluating risks, tradeoffs, and best practices.

- Ability to lead the design, development, and deployment of business-critical software and infrastructure at scale.

- Strong analytical, communication, and technical documentation skills.

- Self-starter who can work independently while contributing effectively within a collaborative team environment.

- Strong customer service mindset and service-oriented approach.

**Benefits:**

- 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

- 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

- Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

**Travel:** Occasional travel of up to 20%, including required attendance at designated company summits (typically one to two per year).

## Skills

### Required
- Apache Spark
- AWS
- Azure
- Bash
- Chef
- CloudWatch
- DevOps
- GitFlow
- Google Cloud
- ITIL
- Jenkins
- Java
- Linux
- Nagios
- New Relic
- Node.js
- PowerShell
- Python
- Ruby
- SaltStack
- Scrum
- Shell
- SQL

### Nice to have
- Distance education
- Modern programming languages
- Cloud cost optimisation
- Serverless technologies
- Compliance and risk management
- JSON
- YAML

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