Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Stanford University • Redwood City, CA

116d • $150,922 - $155,000

About The Position

The Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Engineer position at Stanford University involves building and maintaining scalable, highly available, and resilient systems in both cloud and on-prem environments. The role includes implementing new cloud functionalities, migrating existing processes to the cloud, and maintaining them. The engineer will utilize Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery frameworks and infrastructure automation to deploy systems effectively. This is a hybrid-eligible position.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and eight years of relevant experience or a combination of education and relevant experience.
• Demonstrate Cloud Infrastructure experience including AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI.
• Extensive experience with AWS server deployment using AWS CLI and HashiCorp Terraform.
• Experience in orchestrating environment deployment from OS to application layers using tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, Puppet.
• Experience with automated deployment/Continuous Integration/Release.
• Demonstrate experience in Network Security and Network awareness principles.
• Good understanding of Networking, Firewall, Security hardening, storage, and OS software package management in Unix Environment.
• Strong understanding of Cloud Technologies with focus on AWS and OCI.
• Comprehensive knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
• Knowledge of infrastructure APIs on cloud platforms.
• Extensive experience with deploying Infrastructure as Code patterns using Terraform.
• Ability to script proficiently using Unix Shell and Python for automation.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and collaborative problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with Single Sign-On SAML, OpenID.
• Experience with AWS SQS, API Gateway, OAuth 2.0 & RESTful APIs.
• Experience in Oracle OCI.
• AWS and OCI certifications.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using a 'devops language' and infrastructure-as-code templates.
• Engineer processes across servers, applications, and databases, monitoring their performance.
• Take responsibility for infrastructure resource design, performance optimization, and backup strategies.
• Develop and maintain connectivity solutions between campus infrastructure.
• Collaborate with application development and infrastructure teams to optimize cloud-based solutions.
• Ensure monitoring coverage for applications and manage the health of applications/systems.
• Implement Best Practices for IaaS and PaaS services lifecycle.

Benefits

• Career development programs and tuition reimbursement.
• Generous time-off and family care resources.
• Excellent health care benefits.
• Free commuter programs and ridesharing incentives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Educational Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree