Cloud Operations Specialist (RapidScale)

As a Cloud Operations Specialist in our Network Operations Center (NOC), you will help ensure the operational success of RapidScale’s clients and internal teams by providing world-class Tier 1 support. Your responsibilities will include coordinating, and monitoring infrastructure in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You will also be maintaining our call center queue, and break/fix ticket queues daily to ensure clients’ needs are met with little to no down time. This is an entry-level position for a cloud technologist who’s looking to start a career in Engineering.Responsibilities:• Manage and maintain remote monitoring and management systems.• Onboard and offboard clients and agents.• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with remote agents.• Perform and remediate issues identified from routine client health checks.• Develop and implement automation scripts.• Provide thorough and excellent technical support to clients as needed.• Use their expertise in performance monitoring tool alerts, dashboards, and data trend analysis in a monitoring tool.• Employ customer service expertise to help manage tasks and organize large amounts of data to use for instrumentation into an enterprise monitoring solution.• Provide technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. Create, develop and tweak documentation.• Work closely with the monitoring operations teams, production support, performance test teams, operations, application owners and application owners to deliver best-in-class monitoring.• Responsible for reducing Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) incidents.• Support day to day administration, maintenance, and management of monitoring tools.• Ensures monitoring products and integrations are functioning correctly and works with owners to modify as required.• Monitor the responsiveness and availability of critical systems for our customers and internal systems.• Act promptly to events and alerts to resolve potential issues and operational risks.• Check dashboards and coordinate the resolution of incidents.• Continuously analyze platform behavior and give recommendations for improvements based on facts to support all aspects of the day-to-day operations.• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance client service, efficiency and reliability• Follow procedures to detect issues and troubleshoot accordingly.• Analyze logs, charts and metrics to find insightful information for incident or problem resolution.• Write and maintain up-to-date technical documentation related to the position.• Participate actively in incident and problem management.Requirements:• High School Diploma/GED and 3 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as any level degree/certification beyond a HS diploma/GED in a related discipline and up to 1 year of experience; or 5 years’ experience in a related field• Foundational Cloud Certification in any of the following service providers: Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure• Experience working with Remote Monitoring and Management tools• Experience in working with Cloud and hybrid infrastructure is preferred• Experience with Microsoft Windows patch management• Experience with automation development• Experience with PowerShell scripting• Experience with using service request ticketing systems, preferably JIRA• Innovative thinker, able to identify problems and develop creative solutions• Passion and drive for outstanding results• Technical experience troubleshooting issues in Microsoft and Linux environments• Strong organizational and time management skills• Excellent verbal and textual communication skills• Experience with creating technical documentation• Experience with gathering and organizing large amounts of data to use for instrumentation in an Enterprise monitoring solution• Experience with recommending baseline monitoring thresholds and performance monitoring KPIs and SLAs• Ability to provide monitoring tool infrastructure recommendationsSuccessful contributors at RapidScale display the following personality traits:• They’re intensely curious while displaying analytical, problem-solving, and dot-connecting skills with the ability to develop quick, accurate situational awareness• They display strong communication and presentation skills, both oral and written and are comfortable with individual and group presentations• They have cultivated strong interpersonal skills and have experience initiating and building positive relationships• They are comfortable within a rapidly changing technical environment and are comfortable with ambiguityWhat makes this an exciting opportunity?Working at a high-growth company is exciting on many levels. You’ll have wide latitude to grow your technical skills and the company actively encourages learning. You’ll find unusually broad opportunities to expand your knowledge and grow your career. New ideas and lateral thinking are the norm and you’ll find your team and other cross-functional groups are receptive to them, because everything you do here is visible and matters. We are in an industry (the hyper cloud) that is doing cool stuff and the pace-of-change creates exponential areas of growth opportunity - both personally and professionally.