Senior Cloud Engineer, Information Technology [R0150849]

University of Nevada-Las Vegas; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Tuition discounts

Job summary

The University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) invites applications for a full-time Senior Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient cloud and platform services. This position requires strong expertise in systems engineering and cloud services management.

UNLV offers a competitive benefits package, including excellent health insurance, retirement plans, and tuition discounts, along with a commitment to a diverse and discrimination-free work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution or equivalent experience.
• Seven years of related professional experience in systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable, secure, resilient cloud services.
• Perform administration tasks on cloud services and platforms.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning.

Skills

Infrastructure provisioning

Cloud services management

Automation tools

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Infrastructure-as-Code

Job description

Senior Cloud Engineer, Information Technology [R0150849]

University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) invites applications for a full‑time Senior Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient cloud and platform services across Public, Hosted, SaaS, and PaaS environments.

Responsibilities

• Perform 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 and manage Infrastructure‑as‑Code templates.
• Optimize resource usage and ensure compliance with security and governance standards.
• Perform platform and services administration, tenant management, version upgrades, patching, and performance tuning.
• Monitor systems, conduct maintenance, growth planning, problem analysis, documentation, backups, and recovery.
• Support modernization and operational transparency initiatives, collaborating with faculty, business teams, and vendors.

Customer Service Expectations

Maintain a customer‑focused approach in all duties, ensuring professional, timely, and effective interactions with internal and external stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Seven (7) years of related professional experience in systems engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a higher‑education environment.
• Ten (10) or more years of related professional experience in systems engineering.
• Industry Linux certification.
• Industry cloud certification.
• Industry project management certification.
• Industry major service certification.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of operating system, server, and cloud architecture and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of system and application security, monitoring, and enforcement.
• Experience creating and maintaining documentation, project plans, and schedules.
• Proficiency with automation tools and Infrastructure‑as‑Code.
• Effective communication and team‑oriented collaboration skills.
• Ability to analyze issues, prioritize tasks, and deliver high‑quality results.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including paid time off, sick leave, and holidays.
• Excellent health insurance (medical, dental, vision).
• Comprehensive retirement plans and voluntary benefits programs.
• No state income tax for Nevada residents.
• Tuition discounts for employees and eligible dependents.

EEO Statement

The University of Nevada - Las Vegas (UNLV) is committed to providing a place of work and learning free of discrimination on the basis of a person’s age (40 or older), disability, gender (including pregnancy related conditions), military status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, race, color, or religion. Unlawful discrimination is illegal under federal and state law. Women, minorities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.