Associate Data Ops Specialist

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office

Associate Data Ops Specialist

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, and data is  your core speciality then you’re in the right place.
 

Why this job’s a big deal:

Are you interested in learning cutting edge technologies? Do you enjoy solving complex problems? The priceline.com Data Operations Team offers these and many more opportunities while working in a fast pace and challenging environment. The team is responsible for ensuring that every aspect of Data is highly available, reliable and performing optimally.
 

Rotational Shift – 6 am to 3 pm (IST) / 2pm and 11pm IST

Work from the office – 2 days a week (Mandatory)
 

In this role you will get to:

• Manage and issue track ticket creation, updates, escalations and participation on incident bridge calls. Adherence to established response SLO’s/SLA’s and a working. Knowledge of all monitoring and support tools in data space.

• Maintain a culture of continuous improvement, by providing suggestions for process improvements, providing updates to documentation, providing transfer of knowledge to peers in your area of expertise and assisting in the training of new hires.

• Frontline Tier I/II monitoring / escalation / incident response and impact mitigation.

• Execute Command & Control tasks on our infrastructure.

• Orchestrate and manage incident lifecycle between external 3rd party vendors, the Data Engineers (DE), and internal development teams.

• Analyze and support the continuous improvement of our monitoring as well as command and control capabilities. Maintain a high level of communication and knowledge sharing: incident lifecycle tracking, runbooks and operational documentation.

• Report the health and availability of the data platform and related services.

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or 1-2 years relevant work experience.

• Experience with New Relic, PagerDuty, Splunk, Jira, Confluence.

• Working experience with Incident Management and Change Management.

• Prior experience in Operations or a fast-paced, high stress environment with the requirement to resolve multiple interruption-driven priorities simultaneously.

• Solid understanding of GCP and Data pipelines.

• Self-motivated and can work both independently and within a team in our 24/7 Operations Center; available for off-hours shift coverage and be able to own technical issues in the role of Incident Commander.

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.