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The University of Nebraska is seeking a Cloud Engineer to manage and optimize cloud services, ensuring their continuous availability while promoting cloud-first strategies across the organization.

Responsibilities: Design, implement, and manage cloud-based infrastructure; monitor performance; troubleshoot complex problems; support users and collaborate with IT professionals.

Skills: Experience with cloud services, troubleshooting, Windows and Linux OS, Ethernet networking, familiarity with AWS or Azure, strong communication skills.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in an IT related field; 3 years of relevant experience; equivalent combinations of education and experience may also be considered.

Location: Remote within commuting distance to UNK, UNL or UNO campus, based in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

Compensation: $75000 - $75000 / Annually

Job Summary:

Incumbent will be responsible for ensuring continuous availability of the University of Nebraska cloud services. Including the design, implementation, and management of cloud-based infrastructure and associated management solutions. Monitor, analyze, and ensure solution performance, capacity, and uptime meet university service level agreements within a 24x7 operation. Troubleshoot complex problems, individually, with other members of the team, and with third-parties. Requires regular interaction with other networking, systems, and telecom professionals in the design and delivery of services; and with end-users to provide direct support. Serve as evangelists to for cloud adoption and encourage adoption of cloud-first strategies broadly across the organization.

This position will uphold the ITS core principles of outstanding collaboration and communication, a drive to succeed, a passion for higher learning, and acting with integrity.

About Us:

University of Nebraska employees enjoy a flexible benefits program allowing you to customize your benefits to suit your personal needs; paid vacation and sick leave in addition to 13 paid holidays; access to career-advancing educational programs, including an employee and dependent tuition benefit applicable to any of the NU campuses; and immediate vesting pre-tax retirement benefits.

Special Instructions:

Please note: Sponsorship will not be offered for this postion.

This position is eligible for a alternative worksite arrangement (Remote - within commuting distance to UNK, UNL or UNO campus)

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in IT related field

• 3 years experience with the configuration, design, installation, and maintenance of computer hardware/networks
• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems
• Familiarity with Ethernet networking
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve complex problems
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure

Equivalent combination of education, experience, that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may be considered.

The ideal candidate is an agile professional with strong interpersonal communication skills, flexibility and responsiveness; exhibits high ethical standards; proficient in managing time and competing priorities; responsive and committed to supporting staff; committed to the ideals of a major public research university.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting cloud services within Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure
• Experience with IT process automation, DevOps, and 'Infrastructure as Code' concepts