IT Sr Systems Administrator - Virtual

IT Systems Administrator

Do you have experience delivering enterprise products and services in a high-growth environment?

Are you a keen problem solver?

Our Story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

Our Values

Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose – be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.


It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at careers.alight.com.

About the Role

We're on the lookout for a DevOps Engineer to join and play a crucial role in our development and deployment processes.

Responsibilities

• Handling the end-to-end platform support, architecture, troubleshooting, installation, and configuration of applications.
• Handling the end-to-end platform governance, ensures that the platform is utilized efficiently.
• Providing HA/DR strategy, configure infrastructure to this strategy and participate in DR exercise.
• Leveraging AWS design principles, data access patterns, and relevant AWS services.
• Monitoring AWS resources to ensure availability and scalability.
• Troubleshooting cloud-related infrastructure incidents and issues.
• Performing deployments and upgrades in AWS.
• Improving cloud product reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost/benefit-including developing fault-tolerant tools to ensure general robustness of cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

• Have 5 + years of experience in installations, upgrades, configurations and tuning of PRPC PEGA Infinity versions
• 5 years of experience working with AWS services EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, RDS, Athena, AWS Glue, Lake Formation, and SNS,
• Manage and analyzing GC logs, heap dumps, and thread dumps to pinpoint memory leaks,
• Demonstrate experience in debugging Pega-related issues to identify and rectify problems in Pega workflows,
• Demonstrate experience in writing scripts using Python, Ruby, YAML or Shell scripts to automate tasks.
• Follow of Metadata repositories such as AWS Glue Catalog, Glue crawler for data stored in: S3.
• Rules, and configurations to ensure that Pega applications operate smoothly, meet business requirements, and provide a seamless user experience
• Demonstrate handling patches, fixing vulnerabilities, AWS Cloud Watch event monitoring and Cert update via AWS Cert Manager.
• Able to work with network features, e.g., cloud network topology, routing.
• Able efficient resource utilization, and concurrency issues with accuracy to recommend targeted solutions.

Flexible Working

So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible. Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and “Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs” 5 years in a row.

Benefits

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as a number of voluntary benefit options.

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

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