Staff Cloud Engineer

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider Craft Education as the next step in your career.

 

Craft Education is on a mission to solve skilled labor shortages by powering work-based learning pathways for all.  

 

At Craft, we’re revolutionizing the apprenticeship degree, combining on-the-job learning with accredited instruction to create innovative educational pathways that accommodate working professionals and meet employer needs.  Our flagship product - Craft Connect - helps organizations administer apprentice degree programs and address mission-critical data and reporting needs.  Through the same platform, Craft is also transforming how on-the-job learning converts into academic credits.

 

Our team of technology, education and workforce professionals also provides technical assistance to organizations looking to launch and manage apprenticeship degree programs.  We are working tirelessly to accelerate the expansion of these programs along with the data infrastructure that underpins them.  

 

If you’re looking to join the work-based learning revolution, we’d love to talk with you.  At Craft, you’ll have the opportunity to solve hard problems in a high-growth startup environment and make a lasting impact on the future of education and workforce development.  We couldn’t be more excited to advance this work as a team of innovative, collaborative and mission-oriented professionals - we hope you’ll consider joining us.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
 

Grade: Technical 410

Pay Range: $140,200.00 - $217,200.00

Job Description

Job Duties

• Supervises work on cloud technologies and scalable architecture.
• Supervises the architecture and design of complete model solutions.
• Leads and performs research and analysis to find solutions for complex business problems.
• Monitors job performance and fine-tune Spark SQL queries as appropriate regularly.
• Deploys automation of software deployment and automation tools.
• Increases application and system responsiveness.
• Monitors performance by anticipating and correcting operational issues before occurrence.
• Creates more stable operating environments by continuously improving infrastructure to be easily deployable and scalable.
• Positively impacts projects by completing assigned tasks on time.
• Communicates technical and domain knowledge as it relates to work, to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Helps continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automation, or simplifies self-service modeling and production support for customers.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

KSAs

• Expertise implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
• Experience with highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
• Expertise in infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (e.g. shell, Python, Node, Ruby, Powershell).
• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google) or Virtualized environment.
• Experience leading cloud operations, including assurance, monitoring, alerting, and notifications
• Experience scripting/programming in Bash, Java, and Node.js
• Understanding of DevOps, Scrum, and ITIL concepts
• Understanding of Virtualization and/or Containerization
• Understanding of GitFlow model and Continuous Integration with CI tools such as Travis or Jenkins
• Experience using Configuration Management Tools such as Chef and SaltStack
• Experience using monitoring tools like New Relic, Nagios, CloudWatch or IPMon
• Experience and ability to work directly with customers creating cloud infrastructure solutions, leading conversations wi