Get to Know Us It s fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they re doing At BlackLine we re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications Since being founded in 2001 BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance Being a best-in-class SaaS Company we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical At BlackLine we are always working with current cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers Work Play and Grow at BlackLine Make Your Mark As Manager Observability - NOC you will lead manage and inspire teams of talented Engineers working to enhance monitor and maintain our high performance cloud-based SaaS application You will be at the core of what makes us successful the people and teams who Monitor and maintain health performance and security of all infrastructure components for our clients Being at the center of our application allows you to affect change to own and drive improvements every day and to imbue those around you with a passion and dedication to excellence You ll Get To Manage Mentor and Lead Engineers to deliver valuable and high-quality functionality to our clients Define and drive an overall unifying vision for teams and their projects processes workflows and related areas through motivation consensus building and leading change Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers Implement and drive adaptations to teams and strategic organizational processes workflows and related areas Review and understand core strengths and weaknesses across team members and proactively engage mentor and define goals to capitalize upon strengths or mitigate gaps Inspire your team help your team members grow and succeed Effectively plan communicate and conduct presentations project milestones risk mitigation road maps resource needs technical information etc for senior management and stakeholders while conveying and driving actionable items to your teams Effectively communicate and resolve personnel issues on your teams Manage day-to-day administrative tasks such as time-off requests sick days etc and other duties as assigned Ensure 99 99 availability of the services and infrastructure that spans across multiple global datacentres in private and public clouds Monitor and maintain health performance and security of all infrastructure components Build systems and perform necessary tasks to deliver against committed project timelines Desire to automate everything Solve real-life problems in a bleeding-edge high-performance and high-traffic environment Maintain documentation and operational knowledge base Triaging first level events and incidents Adhere to the change management and other established processes and procedures Respond to and troubleshoot incidents Incident Management Conduct root cause analyses Evaluate and analyse systems performance issues and metrics in order to provide recommendations for continuous improvements Adhere to SLA compliance as defined Participate in a scheduled 24 7 on-call rotation for second tier support escalations Should be willing to work 3 days from office What You ll Bring 10 years of experience in managing and running Network Operation Center 5 years of experience in leadership role 5 - 7 years in network operations infrastructure or systems roles 3 years of hands-on problem-solving skills technical leadership and mentoring qualities A minimum of two years of experience in a 24x7 operations organization deploying and operating complex cloud infrastructure at scale 8 years supporting Unix and or Linux Ubuntu CentOS Redhat and or Windows 7 years supporting a SaaS Hosting type critical revenue-generating environment 6 years working with development and continuous integration related tooling Jenkins BitBucket GitHub 5 years working with tools like New Relic Jira Foglight 4 years of experience using container platforms and tooling Kubernetes Docker Rancher Helm Anthos Istio GKE AKS etc Experience in hybrid cloud and or multi-cloud environments GCP Azure AWS VMWARE Experience with software development processes and methodologies Experience with scripting and or systems programming languages Bash PowerShell Python Golang C Strong written and oral communication skills Ability to participate in On-Call rotation We re Even More Excited If You Have Significant experience with open source platforms and technologies Track record of architecting developing implementing robust distributed online solutions Familiarity with Configuration Management tools Puppet Chef Salt Ansible Experience in mixed Windows Unix Linux environments Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future Every door at BlackLine is open Just bring your brains your problem-solving skills and be part of a winning team at the world s most trusted name in Finance Automation A culture that is kind open and accepting It s a place where people can embrace what makes them unique and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives A culture where BlackLiner s continued growth and learning is empowered BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity or expression race ethnicity age religious creed national origin physical or mental disability ancestry color marital status sexual orientation military or veteran status status as a victim of domestic violence sexual assault or stalking medical condition genetic information or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself have shifted We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week