Cloud Operations Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

WHAT YOU WILL DO AND ACHIEVE

Please note that this role will be dedicated to select customers and requires additional background screenings/clearances/training/certification, carry & use of customer-provided equipment, and extended on-call shift timing based on customer contractual obligations.

• Own the infrastructure stability for your designated customer(s).  Assist the Engineering teams in monitoring alerts and troubleshooting errors in the customer’s Glean environment.  
• Actively engage in any customer major incident and write up, deliver, and lead the customer review of any post-incident RCA documents
• Coordinate and execute software releases based on agreed-upon processes & maintenance windows
• Set up new customer projects following Glean’s architectural design and best practices.  Complete project setup in restricted environments, including running Terraform or other setup scripts manually
• Remediate any security vulnerabilities in your customers’ projects.
  • Work with customers and Glean’s Security team to maintain security policies, including VPC SC, SCC, NGFW configs.  
  • Monitor security vulnerability findings and work with Glean Security and Engineering teams to address them within agreed-upon timeframes with customers
• Assist customers with cloud best practices with respect to the Glean implementation, including org policies, IAM setup, quotas, Disaster Recovery, and LLM setup
• Coordinate all support activities with your assigned customer(s), which may include more stringent access and security processes, ensuring you move with high urgency for their issues.
• Represent the unique needs of your assigned customer(s) with respect to product and security improvements that will improve the customer support experience
• Take ownership of proactive and reactive support for Glean customers by prioritizing issues for your designated customer(s)
• Create and maintain customer-specific runbooks and knowledge articles
• Provide first response, technical troubleshooting, resolution, and follow-through of customer issues and inquiries
• Assist customers in the configuration, set-up, and verification of new content sources and product features to enable them to realize additional value for their users
• Handle customer-impacting alerts which require coordination with customer admin and system resources through resolution

WHO YOU ARE

• Technically curious: you have a never-ending desire to add technical knowledge and skills to your personal toolkit and share those learnings with your peers
• Fearless: you have an intense need to tackle the toughest customer issues and technically complex issues with the goal of driving customer satisfaction
• Strong communicator: you are a professional presenter with superior interaction skills with both customers and internal teams
• Detail-oriented: you are highly organized and methodical, ensuring all issues are managed to completion
• Data-driven: you utilize metrics and objective measurements to assess success and improvement opportunities for yourself and for the customer experience

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED

Must haves

• Experience and certifications in Cloud technologies in at least one of the following: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure
• Experience with deployment and release using CI/CD and standard deployment frameworks in a production environment
• Deep knowledge of cloud network and security concepts with practical implementation experience
• Knowledge of SQL/database, Basic Kubernetes and Intermediate/Advanced Linux. Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform is essential
• Problem solving: technical problem-solving skills including the ability to troubleshoot and isolate issues to their root cause in cloud environments
• Ability to debug issues including searching & reading application logs, analyzing stack traces and browser trace files
• 2+ years of coding and debugging experience in Java and Python
• 3+ years of experience in at least one of the following disciplines: Infrastructure Support, Solutions Engineering, Support Engineering, Professional Services, DevOps Engineering
• Must have experience in troubleshooting REST API issues
• Working experience on SSO, SAML, and OAuth along with network troubleshooting
• Experience in using Github, Jira & Confluence

Good to haves

• Basic knowledge of LLM’s and how GPT works
• Able to fully document issues you manage and contribute to the support knowledge base
• Hands-on experience in at least one of the following: Search technologies, Knowledge technologies, SaaS-based system integrations