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: $140,200.00 - $217,200.00

Job Description

The Staff Cloud Engineer should be agnostic to tools and should be able to supervise, design, architect and code using Apache Spark and other cloud technologies. The production and acts as a liaison between the software development teams and other infrastructure engineers. They work closely with development teams and architects to ensure a reliable, efficient, and stable infrastructure to house our software technologies that serve our student and employee populations.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Supervise work on cloud technologies and architect scalable. * Supervise the architecture and design of complete model solutions. * Lead and perform research and analysis to find solutions for complex business problems. * Monitor job performance and fine tune Spark SQL queries as appropriate on a regular basis. * Deploy automation of software deployment and automation tools. * Increase application and system responsiveness. * Monitor performance by anticipating and correcting operational issues before occurrence. * Create more stable operating environments by continuously improving infrastructure to be easily deployable and scalable * Positively impact projects by completing tasks assigned on time. * Communicate technical and domain knowledge as it relates to work, to both technical and non-technical audiences. * Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automate, or simplify self-service modelling and production support for customers. * Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities: * Ability to travel to client locations when needed. * Expertise implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments. * Experience with highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments desired * Expertise in Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Node, Ruby, Powershell) * Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google) or Virtualized environment. * Experience leading cloud operations, including assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications. Experience scripting/programming in Bash, Java and... For full info follow application link.

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