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

WGU; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 161,000 - 250,000; Full time

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.