Senior Principal Cloud Operations Engineer, Infrastructure (Multiple Openings)
What You'll Do at Pega:
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and security of Pegasystems cloud services.
- Act as a mentor in Pega Cloud area for other parts of Pega organization.
- Recommend optimal usage of the cloud resources by performing capacity planning and reviews, which include the cost of running infrastructure.
- Handle alerts, incidents, service requests, and changes within SLA.
- Own customer escalations.
- Perform provisioning and upgrade of the infrastructure components & solutions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve customer environment issues, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems.
- Influence product teams on defects, features, and enhancement requests to help build scalable, reliable, observable, available, and highly performant services.
- Create, review, and update operational runbooks and Standard Operating Procedures.
- Participate in pre-release product enhancement testing with Engineering.
- Identify the needs and build tools to automate repeated operational tasks and reduce toil.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to changing business goals.
Who You Are:
- Requires Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field of study, and
- 7 years of experience in any job title/occupation/position involving enterprise cloud environment supporting SAAS applications, focusing on operational delivery excellence and customer service.
- Experience specified must include 7 years of experience with each of the following:
- Supporting, configuring, troubleshooting, and tuning mission critical production Java applications and Apache Tomcat application servers in a global enterprise;
- Hands-on operational experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS);
- Linux systems administration; cloud capacity management for optimizing the performance and cost of cloud resources, including conducting performance reviews and recommending the appropriate sizing of cloud resources, which covers optimal performance-to-cost ratio;
- Cloud infrastructure, platform, and application operational admin tasks, including monitoring & observability, high availability, connection pooling, and application load balancing;
- Systems engineering including Linux-based system performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, clusters and troubleshooting;
- Analyzing application performance, using tools such as thread and heap dumps and JVM memory structure and garbage collection concepts;
- Administration of web servers running Tomcat, Apache or Nginx; and
- Working with cross-functional global and remote teams.
- Experience specified must also include 5 years of experience with scripting languages such as Bash/Shell, Python or similar; and
- 2 years of experience with microservices architecture with Kubernetes.
- Telecommuting permitted up to 3 days per week.
- Must work shifts on rotation including weekend coverage.
Work Location:
21000 Atlantic Boulevard, Suite 401, Dulles, VA 20166
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 ofpay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company
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