Senior Cloud Operations Engineer, Deployments

About the role

As a member of the Cloud Operations team, you will be a key member responsible for the reliability and availability of Pegasystems cloud service offerings. You will operate as a global follow the sun 24x7 team with locations in Bangalore, Sydney, and the East Coast of the United States. We encourage a culture of diversity, openness, intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and consistently strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

Responsibilities

• Perform provisioning of new environments and upgrade of the infrastructure components and product application
• Troubleshoot and resolve customers' environment issues along with root cause analysis
• Create and maintain operational runbooks
• Identify and document Standard Operating Procedures for daily tasks
• Participate in testing of pre-release product enhancements
• Identify opportunities for automation of repeated tasks and reduce toil
• Write scripts to automate repetitive tasks
• Work with team on scheduling upgrade tasks / hotfixes and patches
• Manage / execute deployment of system updates / patches and hotfixes
• Maintain the teams ticket queue and work with team to distribute tickets in a timely manner
• Monitor the teams email distribution list for escalation / communication
• Prepare handoff documentation to work with other global teams
• Willing to be on-call to support customers on a rotational basis

Requirements

• Proven professional and technical experience in an enterprise cloud environment supporting SaaS applications with a focus on operational delivery excellence and customer service
• Self-motivated, inquisitive, and creative, with a passion for continuous improvement and excellent people skills
• Works well with cross-functional global and remote teams
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies, techniques, and tools quickly to meet our business requirements
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, enterprise environment
• Possess customer obsession and proven empathy towards customers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on operational or engineering experience in installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and tuning Java applications and Apache Tomcat application servers
• 5+ years of experience with enterprise scale Linux Administration
• Hands-on operational experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Deep understanding of cloud-based infrastructure, platform, and application operational administration - including product and platform upgrades, installations, backup, and recovery, monitoring and observability, etc.
• Experience with microservices architecture with Kubernetes is a plus
• Administration of web servers running Tomcat, Apache, IIS, Nginx
• Basic network troubleshooting skills including TCP/IP, DNS, VPN
• Experience in Bash/Shell, Python, or similar scripting languages to automate common tasks

Skills

• Knowledge of AWS / GCP
• AWS / GCP Certification
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Benefits

• Base salary range for this role is 102,400 - 153,200 USD annually
• This role may also be eligible for annual bonus OR commission, as well as benefits and other incentives
• The final compensation will be determined during the offer process based on the candidate's education, experience, skills, and qualifications, as well as market conditions and may vary from the posted range

Pay

• Base salary range for this role is 102,400 - 153,200 USD annually

Schedule

• The standard work week will be five days per week; which may be Monday-Friday or Tuesday-Saturday (changing on a quarterly basis.)
• Shift hours are fixed and do not rotate day-to-day, rather on a monthly or quarterly basis (shifts of 8am-4pm or 3pm-12am.)