Senior DevOps Engineer

Cyderes (Cyber Defense and Response) is a pure-play, full life-cycle cybersecurity services provider with award-winning managed security services, identity and access management, and professional services designed to manage the cybersecurity risks of enterprise clients.  We specialize in multi-technology, complex environments with the in speed and agility needed to tackle the most advanced cyber threats. We leverage our global scale and decades of experience to accelerate our clients’ cyber outcomes through a full lifecycle of cybersecurity services. We are a global company with operating centers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and India.

About the Role:

Cyderes is looking for a dedicated, creative, and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Managed Services Engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for automating everything, identifying opportunities for optimization/stability, and exploring new ideas to better our services and products. You should have experience working efficiently on small teams, being flexible in filling roles, and a strong understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP). The position requires experience with CI/CD workflows, scripted automation, metric gathering and analysis, and supportive tooling related to big data operations. Candidates must be able to establish and enforce strong security practices and have a willingness to learn and provide feedback on upcoming technologies. Additionally, this role will be responsible for and help in the creation of our underlying Cyderes platforms, ensure the highest level of quality and stability of the platform, and integrate with developers to get functionality out as fast and stable as possible.

Candidate should also bring the right attitude to the team including accountability, ownership, and positivity. We embrace the fast-paced development field and are looking for like-minded individuals that have a passion for continual improvement, innovative ideas, tinkering with new projects, and taking on complex problems.

Responsibilities:

• Run, maintain, and improve the Cyderes managed cloud environments

• Help lead initiatives for improving system reliability

• Troubleshoot and remediate any system/automation issues

• Maintain and support production Kubernetes environments

• Mentor other DevOps Engineers to improve team efficiencies and help to solve complex problems

• Work with Engineering Leadership to keep projects and deliverables on track

• Take part in both internal and external user outreach

• Collaborate with internal teams to improve CI/CD processes and procedures

• Regularly take part in architecture and roadmap meetings with leadership

• Document and standardize engineering procedures

• Creation and maintenance of automation (tooling/scripting) to assist in the deployment and ongoing support of Cyderes cloud-managed infrastructure

• Contribute towards MVPs/PoCs for proposed tooling and management solutions

• Participate in all team scrum ceremonies

• Participate in technical discussions and work with the team to design robust, secure, monitored, and well-maintained systems

• Support a 24x7 team on-call rotation for production / infrastructure incidents

• Engage in code review to ensure high-quality code standards and foster knowledge sharing

• Apply best practices in cybersecurity to safeguard Cyderes applications from potential threats and vulnerabilities, remediating concerns across our cloud platforms

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years in Development/SE/SRE/DevOps

• Proficiency in investigative analysis of CI/CD pipelines and backend systems

• Practical knowledge of containerization and orchestration, specifically Kubernetes and Docker and related tools (helm, kubectl).

• Expertise in state configuration (Terraform, Salt, Ansible, Puppet, Chef) knowledge

• Proficient in cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP

• Experience with Git and CI/CD tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions

• Understands best practices throughout the SDLC, encompassing code standards, PR reviews, build processes, testing and deployments

• Upholds core values of accountability, integrity, empathy, and responsiveness

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

• Capability to collaborate effectively, even in challenging scenarios

• Practiced in agile methodologies, particularly scrum

• Demonstrated skills in delivering high quality code that is maintainable and readable

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related field

• Strong knowledge of database technologies (Postgres SQL, MySql)

• 9+ years working in the Development/SE/SRE/DevOps fields

• Experience with virtualization hypervisors (VMWare, Microsoft Hyper-V, XenServer)

• Source control and CI/CD (ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub, Spinnaker, Concourse CI, etc.) knowledge

• Acquainted with observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog.

Cyderes is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, or veteran status.

Note: This job posting is intended for direct applicants only. We request that outside recruiters do not contact us regarding this position.