Cloud Engineer I

About Ellucian

Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Values Rooted in Purpose

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

We are seeking an innovative Cloud Engineer I to join our Cloud Team to help drive the modernization of the Ellucian applications to enable a true SaaS experience. We are in the middle of our journey from a large environment largely manually built and transforming into a fully pipeline delivered environment using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins and Kubernetes. Our goal is to automate the abstract work required to manage our applications and services so that customers experience a true SaaS experience that provides 99.99 availability. That’s where you come in!

We are looking for innovators who are passionate about building & creating something new and exciting. This is a high impact role that requires rich technical experience paired with an entrepreneurial spirit to sculpt Ellucian into a leader in SaaS applications for Higher Education.

If you get excited about automation & creation and the impact, you can make on shaping the future of higher education then we should talk!

Where you will make an impact

• We are seeking a high caliber cloud engineer who will work with Ellucian’s DevOps team. This is an opportunity for the candidate to play a critical role in developing our cloud supply chain, cloud infrastructure, automation frameworks, monitoring and logging strategy. The ideal candidate is a high-performance engineer, a forward thinker and has substantial experience in DevOps, ideally at a SaaS company.
• We are looking for someone with a strong desire to deliver the best solutions by being innovative and contributing to our culture of a leading cloud software company. The candidate will be responsible for:
• Coding CI/CD pipelines with a strong understanding of our product's architecture and cloud infrastructure aiming to accelerate delivery and drive down costs.
• Working closely with the Development and Cloud Operations teams to develop and maintain the Cloud Supply Chain frameworks, technologies, and feedback tools.
• Ensuring that each phase of the Cloud Supply Chain from development to QA, to staging and into production is fully automated, as frictionless as possible, utilizing CICD.
• Coding infrastructure changes utilizing Infrastructure as Code ensuring they are architected to implement 99.9% uptime and enable elastic scalability.
• Ensuring information security best practices and policies are implemented in your designs.
  
  

What You Will Bring

• A minimum of 0-2 years of experience as a cloud engineer using languages such as Ruby, Python, Shell scripting, Powershell, and/or JAVA with at least 1 year setting up AWS environments for a SaaS company. Demonstrated Proficiency and knowledge of:
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
• Expertise with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Ruby, Python, Shell scripting, PowerShell, and/or JAVA)
• Expertise with network engineering concepts (e.g. Firewalls, Load Balancers, CDN's).
• Practical experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (preferably Terraform)
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Packer)
• Release Engineering tools such as Jenkins and Maven.
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies such as virtualization, storage and network domains in a cloud service model.
• Strong understanding of command-line tools and distributed version control systems such as GIT, GitFlow, SVN, TFS.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Passion for driving Continuous Improvement
  
  

What makes #Ellucianlife

• 22 days annual leave plus 11 public holidays
• Competitive gratuity policy
• Group insurance and Annual health checkup plan with a variety of family and wellness benefits.
• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Wellness
• Headspace (mental health)
• Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
• RethinkCare - caregiver support
• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups such as: Buzzinga and Lean In Team to name a few.
• Parental leave
• 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