Senior Cloud Engineer: AWS, Terraform, CI/CD Lead

WGU

Salt Lake City (UT)

On-site

USD 161,000 - 250,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses
Medical, dental, vision
Tuition discount
Flexible PTO
Wellbeing program

Job summary

WGU in Salt Lake City is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to lead architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale AWS cloud platforms that support university systems.

The role emphasizes long-term cloud roadmaps, Terraform IaC, multi-account AWS environments, CI/CD, observability, security-by-design, and mentoring senior engineers. This is an in-office position with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years designing, building, and supporting enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, DevOps, or SRE environments.
  • 5+ years hands-on AWS engineering experience for large-scale production.
  • Deep expertise in highly available cloud infrastructure.
  • Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
  • Strong Linux administration experience.
  • Experience building enterprise CI/CD platforms.
  • Programming or scripting in Python, Go, Bash, or similar.
  • Experience with mission-critical production systems with high availability.
  • Mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership across teams.
  • Excellent communication and architectural decision-making skills.
  • Equivalent experience may substitute for education.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale AWS cloud platforms supporting university systems.
  • Define long-term cloud infrastructure roadmaps that improve scalability, reliability, security, operational excellence, and cost optimization.
  • Architect Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and modern cloud automation practices.
  • Design highly available, fault-tolerant, multi-account AWS environments following AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
  • Build and maintain enterprise CI/CD platforms that enable secure, repeatable, and automated software delivery.
  • Develop automation that eliminates manual operational work and improves platform reliability.
  • Design and implement observability strategies including centralized logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
  • Partner with application engineering teams to build cloud-native architectures and accelerate DevOps adoption.
  • Architect container and serverless platforms using Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) and AWS serverless technologies.
  • Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to implement secure-by-design cloud architectures, identity management, governance, and compliance controls.
  • Lead performance optimization, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and resiliency initiatives.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems and cloud services.
  • Establish cloud engineering standards, best practices, and architectural patterns across the organization.
  • Mentor Senior and Cloud Engineers through technical leadership, architecture reviews, and coaching.
  • Serve as a technical advisor for cloud modernization and digital transformation initiatives.
  • Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate.

Skills

Cloud architecture
DevOps practices
Mentoring engineers
Python scripting
Leadership
Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform
Kubernetes
AWS
CI/CD platforms
Linux

Job description

WGU in Salt Lake City is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to lead architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale AWS cloud platforms that support university systems.

The role emphasizes long-term cloud roadmaps, Terraform IaC, multi-account AWS environments, CI/CD, observability, security-by-design, and mentoring senior engineers. This is an in-office position with a comprehensive benefits package.

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