Applications & Cloud Operations Enginner

Sogeti is a leading provider of professional technology services, specializing in Application Management, Infrastructure Management and High-Tech Engineering. Sogeti offers cutting-edge solutions around Testing, Business Intelligence, Mobility, Cloud and Security, combining world class methodologies and the global delivery model, Rightshore. Sogeti brings together more than 20,000 professionals in 15 countries and is present in over 100 locations in Europe, the US and India. Sogeti is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cap Gemini S.A., listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.

At Sogeti USA, we are committed to building a long and enduring relationship with our employees and to creating an environment that rewards and empowers. Our mission is to constantly exceed our employees' expectations in the same way that we strive to exceed our clients' expectations. We offer an environment that celebrates innovation and helps you to achieve a good balance between your professional and personal life. We strive to be an employer of choice!

Job Title: Applications & Cloud Operations Engineer

What You'll Do

• Provide extensive technical expertise to identify and restore service disruptions during and after outages and minor to major incidents.
• Learn, improve and maintain strong application or product knowledge in a fast-paced collaborative environment.
• Document technical problems, solutioning, triage steps and remediations for applications, systems, SaaS services, integrations and websites supported at a Tier 2 and 3 level.
• Ability to utilize troubleshooting concepts across multiple technologies and functions in a global and virtual environment to ensure successful remediation of issues or system degradations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Windows environment.
• Understand cloud computing concepts and the ability to analyze and diagnose issues. (Azure, AWS or Oracle Health cloud computing nice to have).
• Reproduce and/or debug customer application issues by utilizing or repurposing toolsets, scripts or procedures in partnership with DevOps and systems development teams.
• Familiar with basic networking concepts.
• Basic understanding of database concepts (preferably SQL).
• Provide strategic influence across groups, projects and products to implement appropriate technology solutions to solve complex business problems.
• Organizational agility - ability to work in a productive and cooperative way with a variety of people ranging from VPs, developers, customers, vendors and support staff.
• Communication capable - ability to relay customer facing issues to backend developers, product owners and vendors with technical clarity.
• Participates in on-call/afterhours support as scheduled within the team and business release cycles.

The Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• Experience or education in developing applications, websites or cloud services
• Experience supporting production web, SaaS, Cloud or server/client applications
• Experience working with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and/or DevOps environment
• Application operational triage, troubleshooting, maintenance/support and customer engagement critical business services
• Experience with Object Oriented Development/Programming (OOD/OOP) or enterprise scripting such PowerShell or Python
• Familiar with cloud concepts (Azure preferably) and services that support applications and application integration.
• Knowledge of database concepts and SQL scripts.
• Experience in building or supporting webservices, REST APIs and monitoring solutions
• Perform system and infrastructure analysis to evaluate messages, database and application performance.
• Set up new application configurations and build new features on production applications through change, and release process.
• Upgrade current systems from outdated operating systems to newer operating systems and integrating standardized Operations tooling through the process
  • Migration of applications from the different systems will need to occur, and verification of testing through this process will be determined at this time.
• Research and discover applications which are redundant and can be reduced or consolidated through application rationalization plan.
• Work with vendors and coordinate their releases to ensure that teams are aware as well as validate the impact to production systems.
• Analyzing existing processes, support models, monitoring, previous automation and tools, with the goal of identifying gaps and opportunities for enhancements or automated trigger, alert and remediation opportunities
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills
• Problem Solver! Solves complex issues and willing to take a new perspective on existing solutions and code. Exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information and data points.
• Innovator! Bring new creative ideas to the team and champion them through completion of project.

The benefits our employees enjoy:

• 401(k) Savings Plan- Matched 150% up to 6%. (Our 401k is in the top 1% of 401(k) plans offered in the US!)
• Medical/Prescription/Dental/Vision Coverage!
• Low-premium and deductible. Plan with free preventive care.
• $12,000 in Tuition Reimbursement
• 100% Company-paid mobile phone plan
• Personal Time Off (PTO)- Ensuring a balance of work and home life