Senior Cloud Engineer (IAM)

About the role

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is 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.

What You'll Do

• 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
• Monitor system performance, capacity, and availability to ensure reliability and uptime
• Mentor Cloud Engineers while contributing to documentation, standards, and best practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field
• 7 years of related experience
• 3 years of AWS Cloud Services experience
• CISSP or equivalent knowledge and experience in information security
• 5 or more years of hands-on experience in Information Security, Security Engineering, Cloud Security Engineering, or Network Security Engineering
• Comprehensive knowledge of AWS core technologies including EKS, S3, RDS, EC2, SQS, IAM, Route 53, and serverless services such as Lambda and DynamoDB
• Extensive experience with IAM technologies including SSO, MFA, privileged access management, Ping Identity, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IIQ, and CyberArk
• Strong administration knowledge of Linux
• Experience scripting or programming in Bash, Java, Python, or Node.js
• Experience building distributed, scalable, and highly available systems
• Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, GitFlow, and tools such as Jenkins or Travis
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, SaltStack, or Terraform
• Experience with monitoring platforms such as CloudWatch, New Relic, or Nagios
• Knowledge of identity governance and lifecycle management, including JML and SSPR
• Practical experience with Zero Trust Architecture and securing infrastructure systems
• Experience with incident response, intrusion detection, firewalls, antivirus, and centralized logging
• Strong communication, documentation, and analytical skills
• Self-starter mindset with the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively

Skills

• Experience with Chef and/or Terraform
• Experience with VMware vSphere and vRealize Automation
• Experience with front-end frameworks such as React or Angular

Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements. Generally, equivalent relevant experience is defined as 1 year of experience for 1 year of education and is the discretion of the hiring manager.

What to Expect

At WGU, our mission drives everything we do, including how we hire. Our interview experience is designed to give qualified candidates the opportunity to show their best work through meaningful conversations and collaboration. We thoughtfully review every application and invite forward the candidates whose experience and potential best align with the role and our mission.

• Introductory call
• Hiring manager interview
• Team interview

This is a full-time, in-office position requiring five days per week in our Salt Lake City, Utah office, designed to foster the collaboration and connection that fuel our best work.

While we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, WGU is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this role.

This position requires occasional travel of up to 20%, including required attendance at designated company summits (typically one to two per year). Additional travel may include conferences, visits to company locations, and other business-related events as needed.

Benefits

• 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
• 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
• Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

Pay

$143,700.00 - $222,700.00

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