Senior Cloud Engineer, Information Technology [R0150849]

Nevada System of Higher Education•Las Vegas, NV

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides full-time platform and cloud services (Public, Hosted, SaaS, PaaS), infrastructure engineering, and systems administration. Supports modernization and operational transparency initiatives, requiring effective collaboration with university faculty, business teams, and vendors. This position is responsible for maintaining a customer-focused approach in all duties, ensuring professional, timely, and effective interactions with internal and external stakeholders. To provide excellent service the employee will: listen to customers and understand their needs; help customers solve problems; demonstrate an eagerness to help; exhibit a professional disposition; be approachable, respectful, and team-oriented; take ownership of inquiries and assignments; provide updates for customers; and be familiar with the basic operations of the university in order to understand customer needs better.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university recognized by the United States Department of Education and/or the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). In lieu of a bachelor’s degree, applicants may qualify with four additional years of relevant experience, or with an associate's degree plus two additional years of relevant experience.
Seven (7) years of related professional experience in systems engineering.
How to maintain applications and perform system version upgrades at a senior level.
How to apply patches to ensure the stability of applications and/or systems at a senior level.
How to perform system performance tuning at a senior level.
How to perform system troubleshooting methodology at a senior level.
How to perform system and/or application security monitoring and enforcement at a senior level.
How to create and maintain accurate, up-to-date documentation at a senior level.
How to plan, manage, and supervise applications at a senior level.
How to identify tasks, milestones, completion criteria, and the creation of timetables at a senior level.
How to plan and meet project goals while ensuring quality deliverables at a senior level.
How to complete projects in a timely fashion at a senior level.
How to plan server and client migration between software releases, such as at a senior level: planning for growth, performing disaster recovery planning and implementation; ensuring that the servers are tuned for peak performance
How to proactively research and evaluate new technology at a senior level.
How to incorporate applicable new technology into existing topologies at a senior level.
How to improve server performance and availability at a senior level.
How to perform advanced system administration at a senior level.
How to maximize system security at a senior level.
How to create and maintain IP addressing, firewalls, routing, switching, server virtualization management, local and federated account security, system hardening, service and service failover, fault tolerance, and multi-tiered and public cloud configurations.
How to plan, engineer, implement, deploy, and iterate hybrid infrastructure to accomplish institutional goals.
How to engineer automation workflows that encumber IaC, including provisioning of infrastructure in a hybrid environment.
Effective communication at a senior level.
System administration at a senior level.
Project planning and implementation at a senior level.
Research and development at a senior level.
To have high ethical standards.
To pay attention to details.
To be a team player and be team-oriented.
To perform at a high level of customer service.
To analyze issues.
To communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
The ability to organize and prioritize.
Ability to Exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
To perform work, it can involve sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time.
Ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, particularly when system installations are performed, is also required.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in a higher education environment
10 years or more related professional experience in systems engineering
Industry Linux Certification
Industry Cloud Certification
Industry Project Management Certification
Industry Major Service Certification
Expert knowledge of a major cloud provider architecture (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)

Responsibilities

Infrastructure, engineering, and administration tasks on supported platforms and cloud services
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
Ensuring compliance with security and governance standards
Performing platform and services administration
Tenant management, Version upgrades, Patching, and Performance tuning
System monitoring, maintenance, growth planning, problem analysis, documentation, backups, and recovery.