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The University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for Senior Cloud Engineer, Information Technology [R0150849].

ROLE of the POSITION

This position provides full-time platform and cloud services (Public, Hosted, SaaS, PaaS), infrastructure engineering, and systems administration within the Cloud and Systems Engineering (SE) group of the Office of Information Technology. The incumbent will principally be responsible for infrastructure, engineering, and administration tasks on our platforms and cloud services supported by SE. Under the direction of the Senior Manager of Cloud and SE, this position works closely with other Enterprise Systems team members, OIT, and distributed IT. This includes but is not limited to system and database administrators, developers, application specialists, multiple divisions, and business partners. Additionally, the incumbent must be able to consult and collaborate effectively with university faculty, business team members, and vendors associated with the systems being administered.

Responsibilities include designing, deploying, and managing scalable, secure, and resilient platform and cloud services within a hybrid environment; automating infrastructure provisioning; managing Infrastructure-as-Code templates; optimizing resource usage; and ensuring compliance with security and governance standards. Additional duties involve performing platform and services administration, tenant management, version upgrades, patching, performance tuning, system monitoring, maintenance, growth planning, problem analysis, documentation, backups, and recovery. The role also supports modernization and operational transparency initiatives, requiring effective collaboration with university faculty, business teams, and vendors associated with the administered services.

Customer Service Expectations: This position is responsible for maintaining a customer-focused approach in all duties, ensuring professional, timely, and effec