Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

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A Silicon Valley Cybersecurity company is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team. Their mission is to deliver a threat detection and response platform that prevents Cyber-attacks before they happen. The responsibilities of this role include: capacity planning, high availability engineering, performance tuning, and automation/tools development. This is a full time, direct hire role offered as hybrid and fully remote.

If are looking to bring a DevOps focused mindset to a team that is changing the way we use technology, then this is the position for you!

Required skills & experience:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 10+ years of experience in Software Reliability Engineering/Systems Engineering/DevOps role is required.
• Strong ability to architect development toolchains and cloud infrastructure
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and internals.
• Experience in developing software to automate production systems with one of the following languages: python, ruby, java, golang. Python or golang preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS Cloud infrastructure (EC2, RDS, VPC peering, Route53, S3, Autoscaling).
• Strong experience with container technology including Kubernetes and Docker
• Strong experience with provisioning infrastructure through IAC (preferably Terraform) and cloud automation principles
• Good understanding of networking and related protocols; must have a strong understanding of fundamentals (HTTP, DNS, TLS)
• Proficiency with source control, CI/CD pipeline (eg: git, jenkins, Harness)
• Demonstrate experience troubleshooting problems and working with a team to resolve webscale production issues
• Strong experience with configuration management, monitoring, and systems tools (ie: Salt, Ansible, Chef, Nagios, Graphite, Fluentd,, vector, etc.). Ansible is preferred.
• Good understanding of Mysql, Postgres databases
• Experience working with cloudbased technologies (CDN) is highly desirable
• Drive to build robust automated logging, monitoring, and alerting systems with tools such as Splunk, NewRelic, CloudWatch etc.
• Exposure to messaging pub/sub systems (eg: RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kinesis, Kafka etc.)
• Troubleshooting critical development systems (Build failures, critical web services)
• Experience with Release Management processes and controls
• Experience in secrets management solution (KMS/HSMs/Hashicorp Vault)

What you will be doing:

• Design and develop the build, release, and deploy toolchain for DevOps
• Setup, manage and maintain parity across development, staging, and production application environments in cloud infrastructure
• Provide release cadence across multiple environments
• Prototype and develop cloudnative architecture solutions for application needs
• Design and implement monitoring infrastructure development
• Provide support for production operations

You will receive the following benefits:

• Competitive salary + equity