Cloud Engineer II - AWS, Cognos / eVisions / Actuate

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 looking for a talented Senior Engineer experienced with Reporting stack (IBM Cognos, eVisions and Opentext Actuate), AWS and Infrastructure to write tools, automation, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for strategic initiatives. The Engineer will need to balance cost constraints, design best practice, uptime, security, and their experience in critical, 24x7 customer environments.

Where you will impact

• Deliver high uptime and a consistent experience for our customers
• Deliver tools and automation, focused on contractual SLAs and internal SLOs
• Gain advanced knowledge of Ellucian’s in house toolchain for CI/CD, DevFinOps, and lifecycle management
• Take ownership of individual deliverables to include code, documentation, runbooks, and operational handoff
• Design, document, develop, test, and deploy automation in close collaboration with other teams
• Create measurable cost optimization results while balancing availability and best practices
• Possesses the tenacity to delve to the root of the issue quickly, understand why it happened, and prevent it in the future
• Act as a mentor for Cloud Engineer colleagues by:
• Providing leadership expertise for new standards and best practices
• Participating as a subject matter expert on process improvement; and training & tool development
• Be the subject matter expert for assigned specializations by providing technical leadership and technical engineering expertise
  
  

What Will You Bring

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in reporting stack on administration activities such as IBM Cognos, eVisions, Opentext Actuate.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a cloud engineer, systems administrator, software developer, DevOps specialist, operations engineer, or similar role that required both software engineering as well as production infrastructure
• A minimum of 3 year of experience automating forward-facing, production applications using AWS services offerings including, but not limited to - EC2, ECS & S3
• Experience with current scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Bash
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
• Experience collaborating with cross functional global and remote teams with diverse backgrounds
• Technically hands on Linux, Unix and shell scripting.
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Ruby, Python, Bash/zsh)
• Practical experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, as well as creating containerized applications for production delivery
• Strong verbal and written skills, high attention to detail
  
  

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