Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

Synack's Penetration Testing as a Service platform manages customers' attack surfaces by discovering new assets, pentesting for critical vulnerabilities and gaining visibility into the root causes of security risks.

Synack's PTaaS platform has uncovered more than 71,000 exploitable vulnerabilities to date, protecting a growing list of Global 2000 customers and U.S. agencies in a FedRAMP Moderate Authorized environment.

• Champion infrastructure software automation projects and partner across Engineering, Product Management, Info Sec, 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 a Dev Sec Ops  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

• 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 an 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, Mongo
  
  DB, and Redis
• Experience with message broker/queue technologies like Pub Sub 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, Salt Stack
• 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, Dev Ops 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

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$145, p/y Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits.