Senior DevOps Engineer

Synack is a cybersecurity company focused on making the world more secure through their Penetration Testing as a Service platform. The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for championing infrastructure software automation projects, collaborating with various teams, and enhancing the reliability of the Synack platform.

Responsibilities:

• Champion infrastructure software automation projects and partner across Engineering, Product Management, InfoSec, and QA to define and execute against technical designs following industry best practices
• Collaborate across feature teams to deliver on the infrastructure portion of the product to ensure scalability and reliability of the Synack platform
• Predict and deliver improvements across a diverse scope to our automated infrastructure components within an DevSecOps methodology
• Recommend and implement alternative tools and new technologies that could better solve complex challenges
• Enhance monitoring and alerting across the Synack production application while creating new alerts and responding to issues as needed
• Tune automation to overcome systems performance and stability issues and devise solutions based on limited information and precedent to resolve issues
• Create tests around our infrastructure suite to improve reliability

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience deploying and supporting scalable and high availability infrastructure utilizing CI/CD tools
• 8+ years of experience supporting SaaS or PaaS in a GCP, Azure, or AWS production high-traffic environment (must have experience with GCP)
• Container Orchestration experience using Kubernetes (GKE, AKS, EKS)
• 3+ years of scripting skills in Golang and/or Ruby preferred
• Experience with database technologies such as Postgres, MongoDB, and Redis
• Experience with message broker/queue technologies like PubSub or Kafka
• Strong background in Linux/Unix and networking concepts
• Experience with event monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, GCP Operations Suite (Stackdriver/Cloud Trace), and Splunk
• Cloud automation experience using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack
• Experience automating tasks with advanced scripting skills
• Understand security in a systems environment (What does a kernel-based rootkit look like?)
• A technical degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering. To us, DevOps is a combination of great systems engineering and software engineering
• Experience with side projects where you've learned to apply new technologies, frameworks or programming languages