Senior DevOps Engineer

Our client - a company that builds a cyber exposure management platform, is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who will be at the forefront of shaping the infrastructure and automation that powers the company's cutting-edge services and applications.

Location: United States, Europe
Type: Full-time, Remote
Start date: ASAP
About the Role:

You'll play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless deployment, real-time monitoring, and the efficient management of critical systems in a highly compliant and regulated environment.
You'll have the autonomy to explore and integrate emerging technologies, driving innovation and making key decisions that impact the future of the company's tech stack.
You will work with a complex system architecture that includes diverse data stores, a vast microservices environment with hundreds of services, and some of the highest security configurations in the industry.
You'll be instrumental in managing and optimizing this intricate ecosystem, which processes massive amounts of data daily. Your expertise will help the company maintain the highest levels of performance, scalability, and security, ensuring the infrastructure can handle the demands of the rapidly growing user base. Success in this role means achieving unparalleled system uptime while enabling rapid, automated resource provisioning without compromising reliability or compliance.
You will collaborate closely with developers, CISO, architects, operations, and product teams to deliver high-impact solutions that keep the systems robust, secure, and ahead of the curve.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient production systems to ensure optimal performance and uptime
• Collaborate closely with other senior members of the DevOps and Engineering teams to define architectural and operational aspects of our rapidly growing infrastructure
• Identify and resolve issues in production systems
• Oversee and enforce security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations
• Research, evaluate, and lead proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies to strengthen the development of secure, robust architectural components
• Establish and maintain relationships with vendors, industry peers, and professional associations to stay current with evolving technologies, standards, and cybersecurity threats
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure, procedures, and processes to ensure knowledge sharing and continuity
• Offer on-call support during off-hours (nights and weekends) to address critical incidents and ensure system stability

Requirements:

• At least 5 years experience managing and maintaining Linux servers in a global, multi-server, cloud environment. Must have a high degree of knowledge in AWS and CNCF projects
• Excellent in Python, Kubernetes, Bash, Terraform
• Deep understanding of networking concepts such as route tables, service mesh, CNI, etc.
• Ability to own the entire SDLC for projects, including requirements/specifications gathering, coding, testing, hardening, packaging, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining
• Extensive experience working with microservices and distributed systems
• Managing, maintaining, and migrating to a Zero trust architecture
• Developing, automating, and maintaining vulnerability & patch management solutions
• Strong communication skills. Able to inform leadership and stakeholders, collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues, present concepts/solutions, articulate issues/risk, etc.
• Independently manage tasks and time, working as their project manager to deliver on deadlines and plan accordingly

It would be a plus:

• Government-related projects requiring US citizenship
• Extensive involvement in security and/or compliance programs (FedRAMP, GDPR, SOC2, etc)
• Working in sensitive/restricted environment (bunkered, FIPs, SELinux, etc)