WGU is looking to solve critical issues and initiatives across all of Craft Education by hiring a Principal Cloud Architect who can ensure best practices and well-engineered architecture, and drive major changes to processes, engineering practices, and system administration.
Requirements
- Expertise implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments.
- Expertise in Infrastructure automation through IaC scripting (E.g. Terraform, shell, Powershell)
- Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google) or Virtualized environment.
- Experience leading cloud operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications.
- 3+ Years of combined experience in in the primary AWS services VPC, DNS, IAM, EC2, ECS, EKS, EALB, RDS, Route53 & S3
- 3+ Years of experience in Configuration Management using CloudFormation, Terraform
- 3+ years of extensive experience using automation tools, such as: Terraform, Ansible, and Cloud Formation.
Responsibilities
- Utilizes AI (LLMs, Agentic, MCP, etc) to gain efficiency in execution of infrastructure modification for greater rates of delivery.
- Big picture thinker that can not only design but more importantly implement.
- Strategically approaching issues, understanding different business and technical requirements and challenges with implementations.
- Participate in architectural reviews from a governance perspective and provide analysis feedback
- Plan and manage hardware platform design such as identifying components, standardized infrastructure components, serviceability and creating system solutions and frameworks.
- Performing analysis of systems to identify problem areas, identify ways of enhancing existing systems, and develop viable solutions.
- Develop, mentor, monitor progress towards goals and train Engineers on DevOps and CI/CD methodologies and tools for automated infrastructure code test, integration, deployment, and assurance.
Other
- Ability to travel to client locations when needed.
- Works proactively to anticipate and prevents highly complex problems crossing disciplines.
- Develops and establishes technical processes.
- Will provide solutions for extremely specialized, complex technical issues.
- Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience.
