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Senior Cloud Engineer

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for Senior Cloud Engineer, Information Technology.

This position provides full-time platform and cloud services (Public, Hosted, SaaS, PaaS), infrastructure engineering, and systems administration within the Cloud and Systems Engineering (SE) group of the Office of Information Technology. The incumbent will principally be responsible for infrastructure, engineering, and administration tasks on our platforms and cloud services supported by SE. Under the direction of the Senior Manager of Cloud and SE, this position works closely with other Enterprise Systems team members, OIT, and distributed IT. This includes but is not limited to system and database administrators, developers, application specialists, multiple divisions, and business partners. Additionally, the incumbent must be able to consult and collaborate effectively with university faculty, business team members, and vendors associated with the systems being administered.

Responsibilities include designing, deploying, and managing scalable, secure, and resilient platform and cloud services within a hybrid environment; automating infrastructure provisioning; managing Infrastructure-as-Code templates; optimizing resource usage; and ensuring compliance with security and governance standards. Additional duties involve performing platform and services administration, tenant management, version upgrades, patching, performance tuning, system monitoring, maintenance, growth planning, problem analysis, documentation, backups, and recovery. The role also supports modernization and operational transparency initiatives, requiring effective collaboration with university faculty, business teams, and vendors associated with the administered services.

Customer Service Expectations: This position is responsible for maintaining a customer-focused approach in all duties, ensuring professional, timely, and effective interactions with internal and external stakeholders. To provide excellent service the employee will: listen to customers and understand their needs; help customers solve problems; demonstrate an eagerness to help; exhibit a professional disposition; be approachable, respectful, and team-oriented; take ownership of inquiries and assignments; provide updates for customers; and be familiar with the basic operations of the university in order to understand customer needs better.

A successful candidate will contribute to a respectful, positive work environment. They will use our Campus Values to guide their decisions and actions and demonstrate our Rebel spirit.

Salary competitive with those at similarly situated institutions.

Benefits of working at UNLV include a competitive total rewards package including comprehensive retirement plan with 100% match, paid time off, sick leave, and holidays; excellent health insurance including medical, dental and vision; comprehensive retirement plans and voluntary benefits programs; no state income tax (for Nevada residents); tuition discounts at Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) schools; and tuition discounts for spouses, domestic partners, and dependents.

Perks and programs include employee recognition and appreciation programs, UNLV athletics ticket discounts, statewide employee purchase program discounts, RebelCard discounts on and off campus, wellness programming for all UNLV faculty and staff at no cost, opportunity for career advancements to leadership roles, connect with colleagues with shared interests, personal and professional development opportunities, a comprehensive onboarding program, and resources and support for veterans available at www.unlv.edu/jobs/veterans or contact vetjobseekers@unlv.edu.

To apply, submit a letter of interest, a detailed resume listing qualifications and experience, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least three professional references who may be contacted. References will not be contacted until the search chair notifies you in advance. Applications must be submitted electronically through Workday. For assistance with the application process, contact UNLV IT Human Resources at (702) 895-1806 or oithumanresources@unlv.edu.