Senior Cloud Operations Engineer, Deployments
Job Category: Engineering & Cloud
Location: US - Massachusetts - Waltham
**Meet Our Team:**
_Due to occasional work with FedRamp, US Citizenship is required. This role is based out of our Waltham, Massachusetts office._
As a member of Cloud Operations team, you will be a key member responsible for the reliability and availability of Pegasystems cloud service offerings. We 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.
**Picture Yourself at Pega:**
You will have the opportunity to work on diverse problems and apply your expertise and experience to improve reliability of Pega Cloud Platform. You will take personal ownership of the systems you manage and possess the tenacity to delve to the root of the problem quickly, understand why it happened, and prevent it from recurring. By collaborating and communicating with customers and internal stake holders, you will deliver best in class support.
**What You'll Do at Pega:**
+ Perform provisioning of new environments and upgrade of the infrastructure components & Product application
+ Perform decommission of existing environments
+ 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 enhancement testing with Engineering
+ 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
+ Monitor the teams ticket queue and work with team to distribute tickets in timely manner
+ Monitor teams email distribution list for escalation / communication and work with team to respond in timely manner
+ Prepare handoff documentation to work with other global teams
+ Willing to be on-call to support customers 24 x 7 on rotational basis
+ Flexibility to work a Tuesday-Saturday shift
**Who You Are:**
+ Proven professional and technical experience in an enterprise cloud environment supporting SAAS applications with a focus on operational delivery excellence and customer service
+ You are 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
**What You've Accomplished:**
You are skilled in Cloud, Linux, Middleware and DevOps Technologies, and have accomplished the below:
+ 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 is a plus
+ Experience in Bash/Shell, Python, or similar scripting languages to automate common tasks, a plus
+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
+ AWS / GCP Certification, a plus
+ Certified Kubernetes Administrator, a plus
**Pega Offers You:**
+ Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products
+ Continuous learning and development opportunities
+ An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
+ Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company\#LI-KH2
**Additional Information**
Base salary range for this role is 100,400 - 150,200 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. We will share an information on benefits, bonus/commission, and other pay components for this role at the relevant recruitment stage.
Job ID: 22901
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