Cloud Engineer

About Adtalem Global Education

Adtalem Global Education is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. Adtalem educates and empowers students with the knowledge and skills to become leaders in their communities and make a lasting impact on public health, well-being and beyond. Through equitable access to education, environments that nurture student success, and a focus on expanding and diversifying the talent pipeline in healthcare, Adtalem is building a brighter future for communities and the world.

Adtalem was named one of America’s Most Responsible Companies in 2021 and 2023 by Newsweek and Statista, and one of America’s Best Employers for Diversity in 2021 and 2022 by Forbes and Statista. Adtalem’s family of institutions has more than 300,000 alumni and 10,000 employees. Adtalem is the parent organization of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

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Opportunity at a Glance

This position will be responsible for ensuring IT infrastructure and operations delivered through AWS and GCP are designed and operated in a highly effective, efficient and secure fashion. This includes project delivery, responding to incidents and problems, monitoring, testing and troubleshooting, and planning for growth.
 
This role requires a mix of broad business and technical acumen with strong project delivery skills, the ability to inspire and influence decisions around security risk management, and a polished ability to communicate with key internal stakeholders. This role is full time remote position operating in the Central Time zone.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Design, develop and deploy dynamically scalable, highly reliable and fault-tolerant applications on AWS and GCP
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- Select appropriate AWS or GCP services to design an application based on the business requirements
- Propose optimizations to automate and improve infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
- Prepare appropriate documentation such as program code, and technical documents
- Assist the project manager/technical lead in preparing estimates and justification for assigned tasks
- Coordinate with business analysts/QA team to troubleshoot and debug issues, initiate testing, and ensure testing is completed successfully
- Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools.
- Desired: GCP
Completes other duties as assigned.

- Enterprise experience administering Windows Server (2016 and above) environments in AWS and GCP
- Experience with infrastructure automation (PowerShell or Python)

- Working experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible
- Strong experience with core infrastructure services and tools
- Knowledge of Active Directory, GPO, and Satellite administration
- Knowledge of cloud reference architectures and AWS\GCP best practices
- Experience with EC2 and Compute Engine features for provisioning, monitoring, scaling and distribution of compute and network infrastructure
- Experience working with AWS or GCP databases and object storage
- Experience with Git as a source code control provider
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

- Experience working in Scrum or Kanban and tools such as JIRA for workflow management
- 3+ years’ experience in an AWS or GCP Engineering role supporting IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services
- 5+ years’ experience working with enterprise-level Microsoft Window

- Experience with developing reporting that is meaningful and actionable for a variety of audiences including peers, internal stakeholders, management, and external third parties
- Experience developing and managing processes and procedures while continuously seeking to make relevant and practical improvements to each
- Experience in solving intricate problems and conducting complex analyses
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In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $71907.71 and $130001.91. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

Adtalem offers a robust suite of benefits including:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Adtalem’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
  
  For more information related to our benefits please visit: https://careers.adtalem.com/benefits.
  
  You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. At Adtalem, we welcome everyone and have a strong commitment towards diversity and inclusion. We encourage our Colleagues to be their true authentic selves and support laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business. We also maintain a drug-free workplace.