Full Job Description
Pega Director: Operations Support
Role Overview - The Pega Operations is responsible for operational excellence, platform stability, scalability, and governance of the Pega ecosystem.
• This role ensures high availability, performance, security, and compliance of Pega applications across production and non production environments while enabling business agility and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
1.Pega Platform Operations Stability Own end to end operational management of Pega platforms (On prem Cloud Pega Cloud)
• Ensure 24x7 availability, performance monitoring, and incident management
• Drive capacity planning, scalability, and performance tuning
• Oversee environment health checks, upgrades, patches, and hotfixes
2. Run, Incident Problem Management Establish and govern ITIL aligned Run operations
• Lead Major Incident Management (MIM) and root cause analysis (RCA)
• Reduce incident recurrence through problem management and automation
• Define and track SLAs, SLOs, and operational KPIs
3. Environment Release Governance Oversee Dev, QA, UAT, Performance, and Production environments
• Govern CICD pipelines, deployment standards, and release readiness
• Ensure controlled releases, rollback strategies, and production validation
• Partner with Engineering and Delivery teams to ensure release quality
4. Security, Compliance Risk Management Ensure platform compliance with enterprise security, regulatory, and audit standards
• I mplement role based access, segregation of duties, and audit logging
• Support SOC, SOX, ISO, regulatory audits (especially BFSI)
• Manage vulnerability remediation and security patching
5. Cloud Infrastructure Management Oversee Pega Cloud Hybrid On prem infrastructure
• Optimize cost, performance, and resiliency
• Work with Network, Cloud, and Infra teams to ensure platform reliability
• Drive DRBCP strategy, testing, and compliance
6. Governance, Standards Continuous Improvement Define operational standards, runbooks, and support models
• Establish platform governance and operational best practices
• MUST be eligible for Reliability Security Clearance
Required Skills Experience Technical Strong expertise in Pega Platform Operations (8.x)
• Experience with oPega Cloud Kubernetes OpenShiftoCICD (Jenkins, Git, DevOps pipelines)oMonitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics)
• Deep understanding of Pega performance, clustering, and rule resolution
• Knowledge of security, authentication, and access controls
• Leadership Management experience in platform operations or enterprise application support
• Leadership roles managing large, global teams
• Strong experience in BFSI or highly regulated environments
• Proven stakeholder and executive communication skills
• Process MethodologyITIL ITSM alignment
• Strong governance and risk management mindset
• Experience with Agile SAFe enterprise delivery models
• Preferred QualificationsPega certifications (CSA CSSA CLSA)
• Cloud certifications (AWS Azure GCP)
• ITIL certification
• Experience with AIOps and automation
• Success MetricsPlatform availability uptime
• Reduction in Sev 1 Sev 2 incidents
• Release success rate
• MTTR improvement
• Audit and compliance outcomes
• Cost optimization and platform efficiency
Salary Range - CA$ 110,000 - CA$ 120,000 Per Year
TCS does not use artificial intelligence tools for candidate screening or evaluation. This post is for a current vacancy. The hiring process includes an initial screening, followed by a technical evaluation and managerial discussion.