Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

Pegasystems; British Columbia; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud technology firm is seeking a Cloud Operations engineer to support its services. This remote role requires 7+ years of experience in cloud environments, Linux, and Java applications. Candidates must be Canadian citizens and possess excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for customer service. The position offers competitive benefits in a diverse work environment.

Benefits

Continuous learning and development opportunities

Competitive global benefits program

Innovative and fun work environment

Qualifications

• 7+ years of operational or engineering experience in cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Perform provisioning and upgrades of infrastructure components.
• Troubleshoot and resolve customer environment issues.
• Participate in testing of pre-release product enhancements.

Skills

Cloud expertise

Linux administration

DevOps technologies

Java applications

Scripting languages (Bash/Python)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Kubernetes

Apache Tomcat

Job description

Meet Our Team

Due to the nature of the work, Canadian Citizenship is required. This is a remote role in Canada, Pacific Time Zone only please.

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 reoccurrence. 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 on / cover for rotating weekend shift (Saturday and Sunday)

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
• Good communication skills to navigate internal and external customers

What You've Accomplished

You are skilled in Cloud, Linux, Middleware and DevOps Technologies, and have accomplished the below :

• 7+ years of hands-on operational or engineering experience in installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and tuning Java applications and Apache Tomcat application servers
• 7+ 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
• Ability to obtain Security clearance if required
• Canadian Citizenship is required

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