Job Summary
Duties and Responsibilities
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Lead and mentor a team of AppOps engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment
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Set clear goals and performance metrics, conduct regular performance reviews, and provide ongoing support for employee professional development
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Develop and execute AppOps team strategy in alignment with product and company goals and objectives
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Provide escalation support for Imprivatas support organization, taking a lead role in incident management efforts, ensuring timely resolution of PAS appliance issues
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Work closely with PAS Development, PAS DevOps, and Customer Support to ensure smooth flow and handling of customer issues between these groups
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Interact with customers as required to provide support and resolution to customer escalations
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Coordinate and participate in the PAS Managers on-call rotation
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Oversee the operation and maintenance of the Imprivata PAS Cloud environment in AWS
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Work with the PAS DevOps team improve and maintain monitoring and automation related to the Imprivata PAS Cloud environment
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Work with the Development and DevOps teams to identify and document bugs and improvements, and develop resolutions
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Proactively identify, categorize, and resolve potential security and reliability issues with customer servers
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Create and maintain knowledge base articles/documentation for use by internal support and development organizations
- Other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
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5+ years of experience in customer and escalation support roles, with at least 2 years in a managerial or leadership role
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Strong written and verbal communication skills
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Ability to communicate complex technical scenarios to audiences with a wide range of technical skill levels and backgrounds
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Experience providing support directly to external customers and to other internal engineering organizations
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Experience with common ticket/case management software (Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc)
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Understanding of linux system configuration, administration and troubleshooting
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Experience with SQL based relational database systems, especially with command line based management interfaces
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Knowledge of common networking concepts (firewalls, proxies, etc)
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Experience with deploying, running, and administering linux operating systems
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Experience with CI/CD tools (preferably GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code (preferable Ansible, Terraform)
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Preference for coding skills in a scripting language like Bash or Python
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Preference for experience with a modern, statically typed language like Go or Java
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Preference for experience with code management systems, such as git, GitHub, GitLab, mercurial, subvesion
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Experience with virtualization technologies and orchestration tools (Docker, LXC, AWS, Azure, GCP, ansible, kubernetes, etc)
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An ideal candidate would have the ability to contribute to the team on a technical basis in an appropriate manner
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An ideal candidate would also have a strong working knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux based systems, and the RPM packaging and repository system