About this Senior Cloud Engineer role at Western Governors University
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:
Job Description
At Western Governors University, technology directly supports our mission of making high-quality education accessible to everyone. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll design, automate, and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms that enable thousands of employees and millions of student interactions every year.This is a senior engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, building cloud-native solutions, mentoring engineers, and driving automation across modern AWS environments. You'll partner closely with software engineers, security, platform engineering, and enterprise architecture teams to deliver resilient, highly available cloud infrastructure.
What You'll Do
As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will:
Design, implement, and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise-scale applications and services.
Develop cloud architecture roadmaps that improve scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using modern automation practices.
Automate provisioning, configuration management, deployments, and operational workflows.
Design and maintain highly available compute, networking, storage, and identity services across AWS.
Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions that proactively identify operational issues.
Optimize infrastructure performance, reliability, capacity, and cloud costs.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that accelerate software delivery while maintaining security and compliance.
Partner with software engineering teams to enable DevOps practices and self-service infrastructure.
Design and support cloud-native architectures using containers and serverless technologies.
Collaborate with security teams to implement secure-by-design cloud infrastructure and IAM best practices.
Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed systems and cloud services.
Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, standards, and architectural guidance.
Mentor Cloud and DevOps Engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Participate in architecture discussions and provide technical leadership for cloud modernization initiatives.
Required Experience
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
7+ years of systems, infrastructure, DevOps, or cloud engineering experience.
3+ years of hands-on AWS engineering experience supporting production workloads.
Strong experience administering Linux environments.
Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant cloud architectures.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
Strong scripting or programming experience using Python, Node, or Bash
Ability to work independently while collaborating across multiple engineering teams.
Equivalent experience may substitute for degree requirements at the discretion of the hiring manager.
What Makes You Successful
You are someone who:
Thinks like an engineer and automates repetitive work.
Enjoys designing reliable, scalable cloud platforms.
Leads through collaboration and technical mentorship.
Balances operational excellence with rapid delivery.
Communicates complex technical concepts clearly.
Continuously improves systems through automation and innovation.
Takes ownership of problems from design through production support.
This is an in-office position located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Position & Application Details
Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is 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; and 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, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.
Additional Information
Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.
Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].
Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.
