4 months ago
Base Salary
$130k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Advise product engineering and enterprise teams on high availability, redundancy, fast failover, and resilience engineering for SaaS applications.
- Design resilient cloud infrastructure primarily on Google Cloud Platform, with oversight of Azure and AWS workloads.
- Review and validate Infrastructure as Code implementations and guide engineering teams through deployment efforts.
- Design redundancy and self-healing strategies for Google Kubernetes Engine workloads and virtual machines.
- Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and Product Engineering teams on chaos testing and failover validation for mission-critical systems.
- Assess resilience across databases, network services, user sessions, API gateways, caching, messaging, and other SaaS failure domains.
Requirements
- Deep practical expertise with Google Cloud Platform core services, especially Google Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, and CloudSQL.
- Hands-on experience deploying complex infrastructure and guiding engineering teams on implementation details.
- Demonstrated experience architecting active-active or active-passive fast-failover mechanisms for high-volume, data-intensive SaaS applications.
- Strong knowledge of database clustering, replication, and migration strategies, including migrations from MS SQL Server to CloudSQL.
- Excellent communication and consulting skills with the ability to influence teams without direct reporting authority.
- Preferred experience with AWS and Azure.
- Preferred experience designing highly available network topologies, load balancing, DNS and name resolution, firewalls and gateways, identity and authentication systems, and centralized logging or SIEM.
- Preferred understanding of user session replication, session persistence, failover routing, and resilience across API gateways, caching layers, messaging systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
Benefits
- The pay range is $129,500.00 to $186,100.00 in base pay, with potential performance-based bonuses and restricted stock unit awards.
- UKG offers flexible benefits and rewards; the posting does not specify a work arrangement.
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About UKG
UKG builds cloud software for human capital and workforce management—HR, payroll, timekeeping, and scheduling—sold as SaaS to mid‑size and large employers. Formed in 2020 by the merger of Ultimate Software and Kronos, it is privately held by Hellman & Friedman and has dual headquarters in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Weston, Florida. Its platform helps organizations handle pay, compliance, and workforce planning across industries.