Staff Cloud Engineer - Craft Education

About the role

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider Craft Education as the next step in your career. Craft Education is on a mission to solve skilled labor shortages by powering work-based learning pathways for all. At Craft, we’re revolutionizing the apprenticeship degree, combining on-the-job learning with accredited instruction to create innovative educational pathways that accommodate working professionals and meet employer needs. Our flagship product - Craft Connect - helps organizations administer apprentice degree programs and address mission-critical data and reporting needs. Through the same platform, Craft is also transforming how on-the-job learning converts into academic credits. Our team of technology, education and workforce professionals also provides technical assistance to organizations looking to launch and manage apprenticeship degree programs. We are working tirelessly to accelerate the expansion of these programs along with the data infrastructure that underpins them. If you’re looking to join the work-based learning revolution, we’d love to talk with you. At Craft, you’ll have the opportunity to solve hard problems in a high-growth startup environment and make a lasting impact on the future of education and workforce development. We couldn’t be more excited to advance this work as a team of innovative, collaborative and mission-oriented professionals - we hope you’ll consider joining us.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable cloud architectures and enterprise-grade solutions.
• Supervise and contribute to the development, optimization, and deployment of Apache Spark workloads and cloud technologies.
• Research, analyze, and solve complex business and technical problems.
• Monitor job performance and optimize Spark SQL queries to improve efficiency and system responsiveness.
• Build and maintain automation for software deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and operational workflows.
• Proactively identify and resolve operational issues before they impact system performance and reliability.
• Partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders to communicate solutions, drive initiatives, and continuously improve reporting, analytics, automation, and production support