Nuance: Service Reliability Center- Senior Systems Engineer

SRC Voicebio NOC Engineer role The SRC NOC Service Reliability Center engineer role is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run cloud-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems while maintaining and troubleshooting our network/telco infrastructures.

Our team ensures that Nuance services have reliability and uptime to meet the needs of our ever-growing customer base in a mission critical industry: Healthcare and Enterprise hosted products.

Practices such as event response, major incident management, minimizing operational work, deep post-mortem exercises, and prevention of potential outages are factoring into the iterative improvement work that the SRC focuses on.In this role you will spend a majority supporting and being a central point of contact in the SRC with a line of business through phone based, direct contact support, as well as through ticketing systems.

You will be supporting the products and customers directly.

You will also spend a portion of each day working with other team members on a variety of tasks from monitoring, incident management, completing capacity and deployment based service planning, defining monthly and weekly activities like patch & vulnerability management, and playing a pivotal role in our major incident response team should an incident impact the availability or reliability of several of the Healthcare/Enterprise products.

Because of this breadth, the Service Reliability engineer maintains a unique position to see the entire division and interact across all teams.Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent education requiredMinimum years of work experience: 5+ years of experience in large complex information systems, and/or Cloud environments.Required skills:
· Strong network and telecom understanding and skillset..

Phone and email based direct customer support
· Broad experience in troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems covering application, OS, networking and storage areas.
· Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
· Strategic relationship and partnership building skills
· Excellent time management, organizational, communication skills
· Familiarity with cloud support engineering practices.
· Well versed in Azure cloud environments and management including direct work with customer support for maintenance and repair requests.
· Ability to failover and handle datacenter region outages.
· Good hands-on experience on any of these technologies including Kubernetes, AMQ, MSSQL,Grafana, Sumologic, Nagios, SaltStack, Zenoss, HP Openview,
· Remedyforce, Confluence, Jira, Pagerduty
· Working experience in Linux and Windows based production environments and strong knowledge in fundamentals and internals – file systems, memory management, threads and processes
· Strong understanding of networking protocols, IP packets, DNS, OSI layers and load balancing.
· Experience with system monitoring and alerting for availability, reliability and performance.
· Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
· Ability to solve operational related challenges through automation or process related improvements
· Ability to develop and plan for longer term projects to directly impact the SRC and LOB relationship and our understanding and ability to support the related products.Preferred skills:
· Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
· Strategic relationship and partnership building skills
· Experience with an IT or SaaS environment
· Ability to run packet captures and network trace analysis.
· Good skills in one of the languages –Shell scripting, Python, or Perl
· Strong work ethic and a strong sense of urgency with a can-do attitude#LI-HybridNuance offers a compelling and rewarding work environment.

We offer market competitive salaries, bonus, equity, benefits, meaningful growth and development opportunities and a casual yet technically challenging work environment.

Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team and become part of our continuing success.Nuance celebrates diversity and is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by law or Nuance policy.

If you need an accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call 781-565-5086 and let us know.