Cloud Operations Engineer

MongoDB is a leading multi-cloud database-as-a-service company that operates MongoDB Atlas. The Cloud Operations Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the operational success of Atlas customers by monitoring systems, troubleshooting incidents, and collaborating with a global team to enhance processes and tools.

Responsibilities:

• Successfully coordinate and collaborate with a global team of Cloud Operations Engineers who are tasked with ensuring our uptime guarantees to our Atlas customer base
• Help scale the worldwide Cloud Operations Engineering team with the strategic implementation and refinement of new processes and tools
• Assist in scoping, designing and deploying systems that reduce Mean Time to Resolve for customer incidents
• Monitor and detect emerging customer-facing incidents on the Atlas platform; assist in their proactive resolution
• Automate routine monitoring and troubleshooting tasks
• Diagnose live incidents, differentiate between platform issues versus usage issues, and take the next steps toward resolution
• Assist in performing root cause analysis after incident recovered; identifying any breakdowns in processes or workflows that contributed to the event and what changes need to be made to prevent similar events
• Contribute to documentation of corner case scenarios, troubleshooting workflows and SOPs
• Work alongside our product management, cloud engineering and support organizations by identifying areas for improvement in the management applications powering the Atlas infrastructure
• Inform executive leadership and escalation management personnel of major outages
• Coordinate and participate in a weekly on-call rotation, where you will handle short term customer incidents (proactively from automated monitoring or through reactive alerts via our Technical Services team)

Requirements:

• Experience with being an on call DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Operations engineer (at least 2 years)
• Expertise with Linux system administration, configuration, troubleshooting
• Experience in monitoring, system performance data collection and analysis, and reporting
• Knowledge of database operations and concepts
• Expertise with networking technologies like DNS, TCP/IP, etc
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services and other Cloud infrastructure platforms (e.g. GCP, Azure)
• Knowledgeable about a wide range of web and internet technologies
• Capability to write small programs/scripts to solve both short-term systems problems
• A CS/CE degree or equivalent experience
• At least 1 of the following programming languages: Java, Go, Python, Javascript
• A keen interest in learning new things
• Be a US Citizen
• MongoDB
• Splunk
• Kubernetes