Quality Assurance Engineer

Position: Staff Quality Assurance Engineer
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 411

Pay Range: $ - $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.

Job Duties Supervises work on cloud technologies and scalable architecture.

Supervises the architecture and design of complete model solutions.

Leads and performs research and analysis to find solutions for complex business problems.

Monitors job performance and fine-tune Spark SQL queries as appropriate regularly.

Deploys automation of software deployment and automation tools.

Increases application and system responsiveness.

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.

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.

KSAsExpertise 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 Dev Ops 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 Node.js Understanding of Dev Ops, Scrum, and ITIL concepts

Understanding of Virtualization and/or Containerization Understanding of Git Flow model and Continuous Integration with CI tools such as Travis or Jenkins Experience using Configuration Management Tools such as Chef and Salt Stack Experience  using monitoring tools like New Relic, Nagios, Cloud Watch or IPMonExperience and ability to work directly with customers creating cloud infrastructure solutions, leading conversations with key business stakeholders reviewing pros and cons, risks, and best practices.

Ability to lead the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale or current hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.

Effective communication and…