Western Governors University-posted 3 months ago
$157,000 - $243,400/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Salt Lake City, UT

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 WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. 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 411 Pay Range: $157,000.00 - $243,400.00.

  • Demonstrates big picture thinking and can not only design but more importantly implement.
  • Approaches customer issues strategically, understanding different business requirements and challenges with implementations.
  • Participates in new systems architectural reviews from a governance perspective and provides analysis feedback in post deployment critiques.
  • Plans and manages hardware platform design, such as identifying components, standardized infrastructure components, serviceability, and creating systems solutions and frameworks.
  • Performs analysis of systems and identifies problem areas, identifies ways to enhance existing systems, and develops viable solutions.
  • Develops and trains Engineers on DevOps and CI/CD methodologies and tools for automated infrastructure code test, integration, deployment, and assurance.
  • Provides technical support to education segment product teams for various activities such as with testing, validation, sustaining, value engineering, and DevOps required for the products we support.
  • Publishes white papers, how-to articles, training materials, and presents at our internal summits annually.
  • Ensures our systems are built on HA (High Availability) Architecture and provides native Backup/DR support within our defined RTO/RPO requirements.
  • Mentors one or more Associate Level Engineers within our Platform Services group and motivates them to produce innovative solutions to the University’s architectural obstacles.
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field
  • 6 years of IT Production Workload experience
  • 3 years of combined experience in AWS CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and/or CodeDeploy
  • 3 years of combined experience in the primary AWS services of VPC, IAM, EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, and S3
  • 3 years of experience in Configuration Management using CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform, Chef, and Puppet
  • 3 years of experience using automation tools such as, Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation
  • 3 years of experience using governance tools such as AWS Config, Inspector, and Lambda
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or Solutions Architect Professional
  • Expertise with the standard software development life cycle (SDLC) and Agile/iterative methodologies
  • Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements.
  • Strong experience with distance education and distance learning students
  • Expertise in at least one programming language
  • Expertise in cloud spend optimizations and serverless technology such as AWS Lambda
  • Expertise with the integration of cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP, etc.
  • Expertise with compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, PCI, privacy, SOX, HIPAA, etc.)
  • JSON and YAML expertise
  • Eligible for bonuses
  • Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
  • Health savings account and flexible spending account
  • Basic and voluntary life insurance
  • Disability coverage
  • Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
  • Legal and identity theft coverage
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Wellbeing program
  • Discounted WGU tuition
  • Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
  • Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave
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