Senior Cloud Engineer, Information Technology R0150849

Senior Cloud Engineer, Information Technology

Provides full‑time platform and cloud services (public, hosted, SaaS, PaaS) infrastructure engineering and systems administration.

• Infrastructure, engineering, and administration tasks on supported platforms and cloud services
• Design, deploy, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient platform and cloud services within a hybrid environment
• Automate infrastructure provisioning
• Manage Infrastructure‑as‑Code templates
• Optimize resource usage
• Ensure compliance with security and governance standards
• Perform platform and services administration: tenant management, version upgrades, patching, performance tuning
• System monitoring, maintenance, growth planning, problem analysis, documentation, backups and recovery
• Support modernization and operational transparency initiatives, collaborating with university faculty, business teams, and vendors
• Maintain a customer‑focused approach in all duties, ensuring professional, timely, and effective interactions with internal and external stakeholders; listen, understand, solve problems, exhibit professionalism, be approachable, respectful, team‑oriented, take ownership, provide updates, and understand the basic operations of the university

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent (associate’s degree plus two additional years of relevant experience, or bachelor’s equivalency with four additional years of relevant experience)
• Seven (7) years of related professional experience in systems engineering

• Experience working in a higher‑education environment
• Ten (10) years or more related professional experience in systems engineering
• Industry certifications:
  Linux, Cloud (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), Project Management, Major Service Certification

• Maintain applications and perform system version upgrades; patching; performance tuning; troubleshooting; security monitoring; documentation; application planning and supervision; milestone planning; project goal attainment; timely project completion
• Plan and engineer hybrid infrastructure; orchestrate automation workflows including IaC; plan server/client migrations; disaster recovery; and improve server performance and availability
• Advanced system administration, system hardening, service failover, fault tolerance, multi‑tiered and public cloud configurations
• Effective communication, project planning, research and development capability
• High ethical standards, attention to detail, teamwork, high customer service, issue analysis, verbal and written communication, organization and prioritization
• Physical: may exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, lift or move objects; may involve sitting most of the time, walking or standing briefly; may require up to 50 pounds of force occasionally during installations

• Competitive salary aligned with similar institutions
• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• Retirement plans and voluntary benefits
• Paid time off, sick leave, and holidays
• No state income tax (for Nevada residents)
• Tuition discounts for employees and dependents
• Rebel Card discounts, wellness programming, and employee recognition programs

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