Cloud Operations Engineer

So, what's the role all about?

We are looking for talented and motivated professionals, interested in delivering the latest in Application Operations (SaaS) using AWS, in a culture that encourages autonomous productive teams. You are Someone who loves learning how to configure backend systems, and infrastructure that will help us build our global SaaS platform. You have a comprehensive understanding of Amazon AWS platform and know how to light and put fires out. You are an engineer with confidence in his / her skill set, who is not afraid to look under the hood and break stuff to make stuff. If yes, then come be a part of NiCE  Customer Services, a team of software engineers re-inventing Application Operations.

How will you make an impact?

You will get to team up with highly talented and highly motivated engineers and architects, using the latest in AWS, working on cutting edge technology.

As a part of this team, you will be working in a fast-paced environment deploying, monitoring, automating & supporting a highly scalable real-time critical platform(s) impacting, millions of individuals & Billions of dollars.

• Implementing, configuring custom changes, and deploying new Application release upgrades
• Setup new environments & deploying solutions.
• Building proactive Monitoring & alerting service.
• Automation using ansible, python, Perl scripting.
• Setup & securing new Application instances
• Change management, Building deployment and rollback plans and procedures
• Creating and maintaining knowledge base for various technical resolutions
• Create and setup deployment scripts for different environments (i.e. Test properties vs Prod properties)
• Configure and optimize instances and web servers for optimal performance. (ex: adjusting default connection limits, adjusting request queuing thresholds)
• AWS troubleshooting support
• Support, Architect and Implement alongside Technical & Operations teams to meet our customers' individual needs for their infrastructure & application deployments.
• Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that will span multiple AWS services (dealing daily with high severity incidents).
• Help build and improve customer operations through scripts to automate and deploy AWS resources seamlessly with as little manual intervention as possible.
• Collaborate and help build utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and your fellow Engineers to operate safely at high speed / wide scale.
• Drive customer communication during critical events.
• Provide on-call off hour support and flexible to work in 24*7 shift environment

Have you got what it takes?

• 2 - 4 years of relevant experience
• Excellent hands-on experience in managing Application Support (3 tier/2 tier apps)
• Strong problem solving, analytical and communication skills
• Exposure in handling complex application performance issues
• Exposure to APM tools like AppDynamics, Dynatrace
• Excellent skills on managing containerized / cloud-based application with exposure to various cloud services (EC2, S3, IAM, ELB, VPC, VPN).
• Good experience in a DevOps environment / Operations team / Infrastructure Operations team.
• Excellent Troubleshooting skills
• OS level knowledge (Windows or Linux)
• Database skills ( SQL ,Oracle or Postgres / Casandra)
• Application Server ( skills on any of Middleware technologies e.g. – Tomcat , WebLogic , WebSphere)
• Ability to identify the underlying root cause of performance issues & mitigate bottlenecks
• Good understanding on Networking , Load balancers
• Good communication both written and verbal
• Exposure to scripting language (Ansible, Perl, Python, Ruby, Shell script, Powershell etc.)
• Experience in working with tools like OpsGenie, Nagios, Rundeck,
• Good understanding in Kubernetes.
• Cloud / Application level Security experience
• Experience in Banking & Financial domain
• Has worked in an Agile / Sprint development model.

What's in it for you? 

Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment As the market leader, every day at NiCE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NiCEr 

Enjoy NiCE-FLEX 

At NiCE, we work according to the NiCE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere. 

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