Cloud Operations Engineer

Are you interested in working for the world leaders in real-time TV & Media Recommendations?

Do you want to work in a fast-paced operations team and have responsibility for deploying software solutions to global customers?

ThinkAnalytics’ flagship solution is the Emmy® Award Winning Search and Recommendations Engine - the most widely deployed real-time, Personalised Content, Search and Recommendations engine globally. Our customer base is over 80 video service providers and we serve over 6 billion recommendations per day to over 450+ million subscribers worldwide.

As we continue to grow, we invite motivated and ambitious go-getters to apply for our Operations Engineer role based in our growing Pune Office.

The Role

We are looking for a talented individual who has experience of working in a fast-paced environment with responsibility for Cloud and On-premises deployment and infrastructure/application monitoring. In addition, we’re looking for someone who has experience of being responsible for supporting the availability of production and non-production environments to join our talented and close-knit team.

Working closely with the global development and project teams to deliver both production and non-production environments, you will own deployment, maintenance, monitoring and support of production and non-production environments. You will create monitoring solutions for high load real-time systems to serve our worldwide customer base, including leading TV platforms such as Astro, Deutsche Telekom, DirecTV Latin America, HBO Latin America, Liberty Global, OSN, Proximus, Rogers, Singtel, Sky, TataPlay, and Vodafone.

Key Responsibilities

You will work in our new, modern Pune office within a highly skilled and experienced team to:

• Contribute to maintain high availability, 100% Application uptime and stable user experience under heavy load conditions in 24X7 Cloud Environment as per SLA.
• Solving complex customer problems and asking insightful questions that get to the root cause of the customer’s problem.
• Take ownership and generate solutions using product knowledge to support the availability of production and non-production environments for the team members including development, project, and test.

• Consistent improvement in the quality of work by internalizing the feedback and coaching received.
• Ensuring all support requests and incidents are handled promptly within a predefined SLA.
• Support and Configure monitoring tools to provide early visibility to the business of compliance to performance, availability, and incident SLA's.
• Prepare knowledge articles to expand existing KB resources within the team.
• Spend time learning new technology, features, and solutions which will help in understanding the AWS system and debug customer issues.

Essential Skills

We would like to hear from you if you have:

• 3+ years of experience in providing technical support in a Production Setup.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in providing application support and troubleshooting application issues running on Java.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Linux/Unix Operating systems.
• Working knowledge of day-to-day Linux/Unix command-line utilities like grep, sed, awk, top, etc
• Working experience in writing SQL queries and/or knowledge of Relational databases like – MySQL, and/or Oracle.
• Good to have experience in supporting applications deployed in Cloud (AWS).
• BE/BTech/ME/MTech/MCA/Computer Science Graduate with 60% and above aggregate.
• A can-do attitude coupled with the ability to work under pressure and willingness to learn and grow within the team.
• Great attention to detail and superb team working skills!
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A willingness to work in Shifts, Holidays and be a part of 24/7 On-Call rotational 365 days a year basis (you will be rewarded for this!)

Desirable Skills

In addition to the above, it would be great if you also had:

• 3+ years of Technical Support experience working with an Enterprise Grade application.
• Good to have experience/understanding in managing AWS Cloud platform and able to navigate & use various services like EC2, VPC, Security Groups, CloudWatch, RDS, ELBs, R53, etc. available within AWS.
• Building and deploying securely to Cloud and On-premises platforms utilizing private networking structures, policies, rules, and configuration management.
• Experience of Java application servers, like JBoss/Wildfly.
• Exposure of Jira or a similar service desk tool.
• Experience in designing and documenting operational processes.

Apply Now!

We’re passionate about what we do and expect you to be too.

We are committed to the growth of the company as well as our people and we’ll invest in your progression with training opportunities whether that’s access to an external platform to brush up on new tech or supporting you to become certified in professional areas, such as AWS. We offer fully funded training support for this and in return for becoming certified we offer financial incentives too!

We offer the opportunity to work within talented and close-knit teams where you feel truly valued and the opportunity to gain exposure working with colleagues around the globe too.

In addition to our in-depth company onboarding programme, we offer a generous benefits package and regular team social events