Principal Cloud Development Engineer, Data Services
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This role is based out of our Waltham, MA office
The Cloud Engineering: Platform Deployments & Data Services team designs and develops the highly available processes associated with the provisioning, configuration, installation, maintenance, upgrade, and deployment of the Pega Platform and its strategic and industry applications. Working in a collaborative environment, your familiarity of Kubernetes, Docker, RDBMS, Application Servers, coupled with excellent Go and Java skills will help drive the future of our Pega Cloud and Client Managed Cloud solutions.
Picture Yourself at Pega:
Pega is changing the way the world builds software. In this role, you’ll help us design and develop the next generation highly available deployment strategies leveraging cloud orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Terraform that will enable the latest releases of our software to be delivered to our clients seamlessly. This is your chance to get hands-on with leading-edge technology at a business, solving urgent, pervasive problems for some of the world’s most recognized and valued brands.
What You'll Do at Pega:
• As a principal cloud engineer on the team, you will work on designing and implementing solutions for making software changes to the underlying infrastructure in a highly available manner.
• Ensure the Pega Platform is scalable and resilient by leveraging Cloud services and technologies ensuring end users are not impacted by infrastructure changes.
• Write code that is cloud native and cloud provider agnostic.
Who You Are:
You are a passionate developer and effective communicator with sufficient experience to guide junior colleagues in terms of their skill training and assistance with their work assignments. You are a skilled DevOps engineer and are technically versatile with willingness to share your knowledge with others. You have a high level of technical aptitude with a demonstrated ability to proactively and quickly learn independently. You are capable of exploring and enhancing Pega technology using your expertise in cloud technologies and object-oriented software development. You are resilient in the face of setbacks and can pivot to alternatives when necessary. You frequently provide your own thoughts and ideas during collaboration and are open to feedback. You demonstrate the ability to apply previous learning experiences to new challenges effectively. You promote working in an agile, fast-paced environment that values collaboration and teamwork. You possess strong communication and interpersonal skills and thrive in a robust environment that imposes new challenges frequently. You have strong initiative and visible autonomy at work. You look for opportunities to improve the codebase and follow up with leadership on your recommendations. You can independently drive complex projects to completion. You apply software design and development best practices, which you can leverage to support our Pega Cloud with our "as-a-Service" evolution.
What You've Accomplished:
- Bachelor’s Computer Science degree with 10+ years professional experience or a Master's Computer Science degree with 7+ years of professional experience.
- Strong relational database experience and familiarity with data warehouse solutions; experience with AWS Redshift or GCP BigQuery are required
- Experience developing highly scalable applications using tools like Golang or Java
- Experience with testing frameworks and automation pipelines.
- A solid understanding of Kubernetes and Docker containers (equivalent to CKAD certification)
- Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker containers.
Pega Offers You:
- Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products
- Continuous learning and development opportunities
- An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
- Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company #LI-KH2
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