Cloud Engineer

Work Location:

District Office

Position Status:
Full Time

Salary Range: $141,330 - $172,437 Annual Salary (Range 150: Classified Salary Schedule Fiscal Year ). Starting placement is generally at Step 1.

Benefits

Summary:

Health, dental, vision, life, disability, employee assistance, pension contributions, retirement savings options, paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.

The Cloud Engineer reports to the Executive Director, Information Technology Services & Support at the District Office. The work schedule is 12 months per year; 40 hours per week;
Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Reporting to the Executive Director, ITSS or an assigned administrator, the Cloud Engineer is responsible for leading cloud migration initiatives and maintaining the District’s cloud infrastructure. The Cloud Engineer performs advanced senior technical duties as a professional staff member for the planning, implementation, maintenance, and ongoing management of the District’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure platforms. This role focuses on ensuring the availability, performance, and security of cloud services while aligning cloud technologies with the District’s technical and business objectives.

This is a senior level, non‑managerial professional position with full functional responsibility in all aspects of the field. Incumbents at this level serve as a senior technical resource providing advanced technical support, cloud systems analysis, and recommending solutions to assigned functional areas. The position involves collaboration with leadership, technical teams, and functional areas to design cloud solutions, optimize resources, and address service gaps through continuous improvement and innovation.

• Collaborate with leadership to define and lead the migration of on‑premises datacenters to Microsoft Azure or AWS cloud environments.
• Develop solutions integrating AWS or Microsoft Azure clouds with services hosted on‑premises or in other cloud environments.
• Work alongside key vendors (Microsoft, VMware, etc.) to drive the development and deployment of the technologies within the cloud environments.
• Design and implement cloud‑based solutions to meet technical and business requirements.
• Review and optimize cloud infrastructure ensuring high availability, performance and monitoring costs to prevent over provisioning.
• Recommend and implement AWS or Azure operational best practices, including best practices for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, One Drive for Business, Teams, and other associated applications.
• Monitor and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and application performance, identifying and resolving issues in a timely manner.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, management, and monitoring of cloud resources.
• Resolve service requests and manage assigned ticket queue.
• Collaborate with other IT staff to address cloud vulnerabilities and threats by identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues in a timely manner.
• Provide support and guidance to other IT team members on cloud‑related issues. Train customers on use of district cloud products and applications.
• Continuously assess cloud technology services and processes, identifying opportunities for enhancements or replacements.
• Prepare and maintain comprehensive documentation for cloud infrastructure including Microsoft Office 365 administration.
• Develop and maintain frameworks to guide innovation and improvement cycles, focusing on proactive solutions and process improvements that will enhance customer experience.
• Stay up to date with the latest Azure/AWS services, technologies, and best practices, and share knowledge with the team.
• Perform other duties reasonably related to the job classification.

• Physical and VMWare virtualized server environments, and AWS /Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
• Microsoft Office 365 and Windows Server environments, including Active Directory and Azure Active Directory.
• Cloud security principles, techniques and protocols.
• Mu…