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About The Job
This role is responsible for
operational excellence across multiple SaaS offerings
, including SAS Viya and other enterprise solutions. The position involves managing deployments, lifecycle operations, automation, and collaboration with R&D teams to enhance reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency in
cloud environments
. You will work on
incident response, change execution, onboarding, upgrades, and offboarding
, while driving innovation through automation and integration of cloud services.
As a Cloud Engineer, You Will
- Provide daily operational support for multiple SaaS offerings, including incident response, change execution, and update deployments.
- Collaborate with SAS R&D to define and document SaaS operator requirements, driving software enhancements and reducing manual toil.
- Manage the customer lifecycle: initial deployment, onboarding, upgrades, and offboarding across multiple SaaS solutions.
- Innovate using automation, tooling, or scripting (Python) in Azure environments to improve availability, scalability, and infrastructure provisioning.
- Perform Root Cause Analysis in partnership with SAS R&D for problem management.
- Integrate Azure cloud services into SaaS offerings to enhance value and optimize costs.
- Participate in on-call rotational assignments for critical support.
Experience: 3-4 Years
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years supporting customer-facing cloud environments, hosting services, and highly available applications.
- 2+ years experience in scripting or development languages such as Python.
- Strong understanding of web-based systems and cloud concepts.
- Hands-on experience with Azure and AWS cloud platforms.
- Familiarity with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Collaborative team player with strong communication skills.
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and independent with problem-solving abilities.
- Passion for continuous learning and mastering new technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in DevOps and Agile methodologies.
- Exposure to globally dispersed teams and globally deployed products.
- Familiarity with ITSM tools (ServiceNow, JIRA).
- Knowledge of SAS products or solutions is a plus.
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