Senior Cloud Engineer

Strategic Education • Minneapolis, MN

83d • $103,900 - $155,900

About The Position

We are seeking a senior cloud engineer with expertise in modern cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and security. This role partners across the organization to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient solutions that increase agility, flexibility, and durability. A successful Senior Cloud Engineer (SCE) will work to implement and refine public cloud computing infrastructure, primarily in GCP. The SCE will actively participate with other engineers and developers across the organization to implement new workloads in public cloud and refactor existing workloads to meet industry and business best practices. The SCE will also work to develop systems, tools, and infrastructure that will allow teams engaging with public cloud resources faster and more consistently to promote growth and innovation.

Requirements

• 7+ years experience in cloud engineering role.
• 10+ years total industry experience, spanning IaC, systems engineering, cloud engineering/support, networking, DevOps, software development, or SRE.
• Expert level proficiency with Terraform, including writing custom modules.
• Strong experience with cloud identity and access management / IdP integrations, secrets management, least privilege, and security best practices.
• Advanced understanding of networking concepts (e.g.; BGP, hybrid connectivity, cloud-on-prem integrations, load balancing).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Experience migrating workloads from on-prem to cloud.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience working in an 'agile-like' environment.
• Strong time management skills.

Nice To Haves

• Proactively communicates with others and demonstrates clear presentation and communication skills.
• Multi-cloud experience in AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Experience architecting and operating systems under compliance or regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Implement and refine public cloud computing infrastructure, primarily in GCP.
• Participate with other engineers and developers to implement new workloads in public cloud.
• Refactor existing workloads to meet industry and business best practices.
• Develop systems, tools, and infrastructure for faster and more consistent engagement with public cloud resources.
• Collaborate with developers, SREs, information security analysts, and the business to ensure infrastructure aligns with best practices in security, compliance, and performance.
• Participate in root cause analysis, compliance and audit reviews, and on-call support rotations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans.
• Well-being incentives.
• Parental leave.
• Paid time off.
• Certain paid holidays.
• Tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA).
• 401(k) retirement benefit.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Tuition assistance.
• Entertainment and retail discounts.
• Overtime pay for non-exempt employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Educational Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees