WGU is looking to hire a Technical role to help build a better future for individuals, communities, and the country by expanding access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs. The role will be responsible for designing, implementing, and enhancing systems, providing technical support, and mentoring junior engineers.
Requirements
- Expertise implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
- Experience with highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
- Expertise in infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (e.g. shell, Python, Node, Ruby, Powershell).
- Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google) or Virtualized environment.
- Experience leading cloud operations, including assurance, monitoring, alerting, and notifications
- Experience scripting/programming in Bash, Java, and Node.js
- Understanding of DevOps, Scrum, and ITIL concepts
Responsibilities
- 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.
Other
- 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.
- Publishes white papers, how-to articles, training materials, and presents at our internal summits annually.
- 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.
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field
