WGU
Senior Cloud Engineer (IAM)
Salt Lake City, UT · Senior · Full-time
Work authorization required$144k-$223kDetected 4 days ago
PythonJavaBashReactAngularNode.jsDynamoDBAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDJenkinsLinuxDevOpsOAuthCybersecurityNetwork SecurityIncident ResponseFirewallNetwork MonitoringZero TrustLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- 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.
- This role combines deep technical expertise with leadership and mentorship, helping elevate both our systems and our engineering teams.
- Generally, equivalent relevant experience is defined as 1 year of experience for 1 year of education and is the discretion of the hiring manager.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of IAM solutions across cloud-based infrastructure and applications
- Architect, build, and maintain secure, scalable AWS environments supporting critical business systems
- Define and implement authentication and identity standards including MFA, OAuth2/OIDC, and SAML
- Design and maintain infrastructure for servers, storage, networking, and security systems
- Drive automation initiatives for cloud platforms, including CI/CD pipelines and monitoring systems
- Experience building distributed, scalable, and highly available systems
- You will lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure solutions in AWS and act as a trusted expert in IAM architecture, automation, and best practices.
Requirements
- experience and training
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field
- Extensive experience with IAM technologies including SSO, MFA, privileged access management, Ping Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IIQ, and CyberArk
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, SaltStack, or Terraform
- Experience with monitoring platforms such as CloudWatch, New Relic, or Nagios
- Practical experience with Zero Trust Architecture and securing infrastructure systems
- Experience with incident response, intrusion detection, firewalls, antivirus, and centralized logging
- Experience with Chef and/or Terraform
- Experience with VMware vSphere and vRealize Automation
Compensation
- $143,700.00 - $222,700.00
Equal opportunity
- Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.
- Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.
Visa & Work Authorization
- While we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, WGU is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
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