Unlock Learning For All
Here at Ellucian, we are motivated by a mission - power education so institutions can empower student success. We are the global market leader in EdTech for higher education, serving more than 2,900 customers and reaching over 22 million students in 50 countries. We are dedicated to helping higher education unlock learning for all by providing solutions that support the entire student lifecycle and deliver insights needed now and into the future.
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
Ellucian is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our talented team to help accelerate our modernization of ERP applications to enable a SaaS experience for all our Higher Education customers. We are looking for a determined individual that wants to expand their skill set and help drive success in our cloud business. As a member of the Cloud Platform team the Cloud Engineer has a critical role that impacts the whole organization as this team is the foundation for cloud solutions at Ellucian.
Where you will make an impact
- Support your fellow team members with improvements in identifying known problems
- Learn new and involving technologies that are constantly changing daily operations
- Participate in on call rotation to provide 24/7 coverage
- Work with CI and CD tools using gitops methodologies
- Develop and test new automations that will be used across our fleet of instances of servers and containers
- Collaborate amongst cross functional teams
- Track and report all work using Jira and other company wide tooling for project updates
What you will bring
- Possesses the tenacity to delve to the root of the issue quickly, understand why it happened, and prevent it in the future.
- Proven experience collaborating with cross functional global and remote teams with diverse backgrounds.
- Strong verbal and written skills, excellent customer service, as well as high attention to detail.
- B.S (Computer Science/Engineering) or equivalent experience.
- 1+ years of experience with AWS platform or equivalent cloud experience.
- 1+ years of experience with enterprise scale Linux administration.
- 1+ years of experience in web-based application deployment and administration using Apache, Tomcat, IIS, or Nginx.
- 1+ years of experience in developing and deploying automation and scripting using multiple tools
- Preferred: Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Python, or bash
- Equivalent experience accepted on: Puppet, Chef, Salt, Gradle, TravisCI, GitLab, JavaScript, Packer, Perl, etc.
- Experience working with CI/CD tooling preferred
- Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.
- Solid team player.
- Strong communication skills
- Nice to have
- Cloud Certifications:
- AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Equivalent Azure or GCP certification
- Docker Certified Associate
- Kubernetes Certified Developer
- Experience using Kubernetes
- Experience using Delinea Server Suite on either Linux or Windows systems
- Experience writing up wiki how to documents for internal team members
What makes #Ellucianlife
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
- Flexible time off
- Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
- 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
- Parental Leave
- 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
- Telemedicine
- Wellness
- Headspace Care (mental health)
- Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
- RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver supporq
- Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
- Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
- We Foster a learning culture with:
- Education Assistance Program
- Professional development opportunities
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