DevOps Engineer
As the world moves even more online due to the coronavirus pandemic, customers are connected and empowered like never before. Customers want an immediate, personalized and consistent experience, no matter which channel they choose to engage with a brand. Sprinklr helps brands meet the demands of today’s customers by providing them with the insights they need to make every interaction matter. Sprinklr is a Customer Experience Management (CXM) platform for modern enterprises with 2000+ employees helping the world’s most valuable enterprises make their customers happier. Learn more about our culture and how we make our employees happier through The Sprinklr Way.
Location: Austin, TX preferred. Open to remote candidates as well.
What You'll Do:
We are looking for a senior engineer who can handle the challenges of managing, optimizing, and scaling a very large SaaS platform. We have a very large cloud infrastructure and a globally distributed team. We work with large enterprise customers and we are integrated with all major modern channels including Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, YouTube, alt. Daily we process billions of transactions, we handle petabytes of data and have thousands of servers running in multiple geo regions in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
What Are Your Responsibilities:
- Manage and grow the hardware and software infrastructure that runs our high-volume, high-availability SaaS solution hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
Quickly troubleshoot and resolve network, hardware, software and performance issues. - Implement automation and industry best practices to run our large scale, rapidly growing infrastructure with minimum human intervention.
- Develop new operational procedures and best practices for problems that haven’t been solved before.
- Provide feedback to third party vendors to help them improve their solutions to keep up with the Sprinklr needs.
- Research, design and implement solutions for fault tolerance, monitoring, performance enhancement, capacity optimization, and configuration management of systems and applications.
- Deliver a secure platform. Follow security best practices. Provide support for security certification processes. Implement and maintain security controls, including IDS and IPS.
- Implement instrumentation and automation for tracking our platform usage
- Maintain knowledge of the Sprinklr application and architecture.
- Work closely with the Product Support, Technical Consultant, Customer Success, and Development teams to resolve application issues and plan for changes, upgrades, enhancements, and new customer provisioning.
- Document operational procedures.
- Provide off-hours operational support on a rotating schedule.
- Manage your own workflow and priorities based on departmental and organizational priorities. Complete work with minimal supervision.
- Follow industry trends and developments to provide new ideas and recommendations on processes and products.
Who You Are & What Makes You Qualified:
- Currently practicing DevOps methodology
- Mastery of AWS or Azure cloud services, especially storage, servers, load balancers, and content distribution networks provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
- Enjoy coding and scripting to automate infrastructure and application management tasks. We are working with very large scale deployment, it is not practical to manually perform application, infrastructure, and system management tasks.
- Hands-on experience on any provisioning tools like Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef
- Fluency in at least two of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Java, Perl
- Proven experience working with Unix/Linux systems
- Strong written and spoken English language skills
- Strong team player and with a strong interest in taking on new challenges
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related engineering field
- Good understanding of infrastructure domain (DNS, TCP/IP, Load Balancing, Security, RESTful services…)
- Experience with high traffic large-scale applications and associated technologies
In addition to the above requirements the ideal candidate should have the following:
- Experience administering (Backup, Restoration, Sharding) databases and data services such as Mongo, MySQL, ElasticSearch, and Solr.
- Strong Experience in ElasticSearch optimization and development is a huge plus.
- Working knowledge of Kafka, Zookeeper, Redis
- Experience in managing a 24/7 SaaS application with thousands of servers and Petabytes of data.
- Strong knowledge in troubleshooting network issues ( tcp/ip ) by using various open-source tools like tcpdump, traceroute, etc.
- Experience managing operations in heterogeneous environments spanning multiple systems, programming languages, and back-end data stores.
- Ability to independently prioritize work and implement resolution plans quickly without oversight.
- Strong organizational habits and time management.
- Excellent customer service skills for interaction with Technical Support teams.
You know You're Successful if….
You can only imagine the number of updates and releases that we are pushing through to remain a leader in the industry. If you thrive in a fast-paced, start-up environment; this might be the next opportunity you are looking for to advance your career. If you are up to the challenge - we want to hear from you.
Why You'll Love Sprinklr: We offer a flexible work environment, unlimited vacation, and generous pay and benefits packages. While we have some amazing perks, at the end of the day, Sprinklrites are here for the opportunity to grow, learn, and affect the industry with incredible ingenuity. #Sprinklrlife
We focus on our mission: We believe social technology is the future of customer-brand relations across all departments, and we seek to make each of those experiences excellent at every touchpoint. This is how we all make the world more social together.
We invest in our people - Sprinklrites passionately, genuinely care about seeing one another succeed in making an impact on the industry. We pride ourselves on having an honest, open environment and a supportive culture where we can take risks together.
We believe in our product - Sprinklr is the most complete enterprise social technology in the world, and we're not just saying that Forrester Wave said it for us! As such, we have many of the world's largest brands as our clients, and our employees have the opportunity to work closely alongside them.
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Why you'll love Sprinklr: We’re committed to creating the kind of culture where you feel like you belong, are happier today than yesterday, and your contributions matter. At Sprinklr, our goal is to treat everyone like family and passionately, genuinely care. For full-time employees, we offer flexible paid time off and paid parental leave, medical plans, dental and vision plans, life insurance, 401(k) savings plans, employee stock options, gym and wellness discounts, Plum benefits, Lifemart discounts, and paid time off to invest in learning and career development.
We focus on our mission: We founded Sprinklr with one mission: to enable every organization on the planet to make their customers happier. Our vision is to be the world’s most loved enterprise software company, ever.
We believe in our product: Sprinklr was built from the ground up to enable a brand’s digital transformation. Its platform provides every customer-facing team with the ability to reach, engage and listen to customers around the world. At Sprinklr, we have many of the world's largest brands as our clients, and our employees have the opportunity to work closely alongside them.
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