IT Sr Systems Administrator - Virtual
US-IL-Illinois-Virtual, United States
IT Systems Administrator
Do you have experience delivering enterprise products and services in a high-growth environment?
Are you a keen problem solver?
Our Story
At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”
Our Values
Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.
Grow with purpose – be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.
Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.
It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.
With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.
Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.
Learn more at careers.alight.com.
About the Role
We're on the lookout for a DevOps Engineer to join and play a crucial role in our development and deployment processes.
Responsibilities
- Handling the end-to-end platform support, architecture, troubleshooting, installation, and configuration of applications.
- Handling the end-to-end platform governance, ensures that the platform is utilized efficiently.
- Providing HA/DR strategy, configure infrastructure to this strategy and participate in DR exercise.
- Leveraging AWS design principles, data access patterns, and relevant AWS services.
- Monitoring AWS resources to ensure availability and scalability.
- Troubleshooting cloud-related infrastructure incidents and issues.
- Performing deployments and upgrades in AWS.
- Improving cloud product reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost/benefit-including developing fault-tolerant tools to ensure general robustness of cloud infrastructure.
Requirements
- Have 5 + years of experience in installations, upgrades, configurations and tuning of PRPC PEGA Infinity versions
- 5 years of experience working with AWS services EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, RDS, Athena, AWS Glue, Lake Formation, and SNS,
- Manage and analyzing GC logs, heap dumps, and thread dumps to pinpoint memory leaks,
- Demonstrate experience in debugging Pega-related issues to identify and rectify problems in Pega workflows,
- Demonstrate experience in writing scripts using Python, Ruby, YAML or Shell scripts to automate tasks.
- Follow of Metadata repositories such as AWS Glue Catalog, Glue crawler for data stored in: S3.
- Rules, and configurations to ensure that Pega applications operate smoothly, meet business requirements, and provide a seamless user experience
- Demonstrate handling patches, fixing vulnerabilities, AWS Cloud Watch event monitoring and Cert update via AWS Cert Manager.
- Able to work with network features, e.g., cloud network topology, routing.
- Able efficient resource utilization, and concurrency issues with accuracy to recommend targeted solutions.
Flexible Working
So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible. Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and “Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs” 5 years in a row.
Benefits
We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as a number of voluntary benefit options.
By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.
Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Alight is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful.
At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future.
As part of this commitment, Alight will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact alightcareers@alight.com.
Diversity Policy Statement
Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ and advance in the employment of qualified minorities, women, disabled persons, disabled veterans and other covered veterans.
Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request a reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting his/her recruiter.
Authorization to work in the Employing Country
Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight.
Note, this job description does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
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We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
Salary Pay Range
Minimum :
90,200 USDMaximum :
143,100 USDPay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate’s experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight_Benefits
DISCLAIMER:
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
Job Profile
Adoption leave Competitive total rewards package Comprehensive Total Rewards Comprehensive total rewards package Continuing education Continuing education and training Continuing education & training Flexible working Flexible working arrangements Health coverage Health coverage options Maternity leave Maternity, paternity & adoption leave Retirement Sick Leave Support programs Total Rewards package Training Vacation Vacation and sick leave Voluntary benefit options Wellbeing programs
Tasks- Architecture
- Automation
- Configuration
- Deployments
- Governance
- Installation
- Monitoring
- Platform support
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrades
Absence Management Authorization AWS Benefits Cloud Infrastructure Compensation Configuration Configuration Management Debugging DevOps Diversity and Inclusion Flexible Working Governance Law Management Monitoring Pega Python RDS Routing Ruby Sanctions Shell Shell scripting Strategy Teams Training Troubleshooting Writing YAML
Experience5 years
Education TimezonesAmerica/Anchorage America/Chicago America/Denver America/Los_Angeles America/New_York Pacific/Honolulu UTC-10 UTC-5 UTC-6 UTC-7 UTC-8 UTC-9