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
Job ID: 21876