Staff DevOps Engineer, Fortanix
Infrastructure
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Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Data security platform
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Data security platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+equity
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To solve cloud security and privacy.
Role
Who you are
- Is able to work with people across various locations
- Excellent project management and leadership skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Exhibits uncompromising integrity
- Pays attention to detail
- Can work independently, while also being an effective member of a team
- Enjoys programming and embraces cloud technologies
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent
- 10+ years of software engineering experience in development, operations, and full stack implementations
- Proven experience as a DevOps Architect or similar role
- Solid experience with Linux
- Proficient with various programming languages such as Python/Go/Ruby for automation and integrations
- Experience with the core suite of tools used to manage infrastructure and deployment of application in different cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Experience with industry Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery patterns (CI/CD)
- Strong networking experience with technologies in TCP/IP, WAN, Gateways, Switching/Routing and Cloud Networking
- Experience with one or more of: Virtualization or container environments like VMWare, KVM and Docker; Orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes; Infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform; Continuous integration systems like Jenkins or similar; Configuration and provisioning management tools like Chef, Ansible, and Puppet; Monitoring tools such as Sensu, Prometheus, Nagios or similar; Logging and analytics tools like Elasticsearch
Desirable
- Preferred technical experience with: Jenkins, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Chef, Terraform, Ansible, Sensu, Python, Bash, Rust, Ruby, Elasticsearch
What the job involves
- As the Staff DevOps Engineer, you will be a part of our Infrastructure team
- Providing technology leadership to the DevOps Team
- Designing and managing a resilient and scalable infrastructure to support application development, testing, and production environments
- Designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure CI/CD pipelines
- Creating detailed architecture diagrams, documentation, and standards for DevOps processes and tools
- Automating and accelerating the development, testing, release and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably
- Contributing to defining security best-practices, and work on "Shift Left" security to guarantee application security at the earliest stages of development
- Continuously assessing and optimizing the technology stack to ensure alignment with industry best practices and emerging trends
- Collaborating with development, operations, and security teams to ensure DevOps processes support application needs
- Mentoring junior engineers in the team in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities
- Contributing to a friendly and helpful company culture
Our take
Fortanix is a cybersecurity company developing cloud security and privacy products. The company's platform protects data, and keeps keys & applications protected from external and internal threats. It can be deployed on-premise or in-cloud, with its products catered towards healthcare, technology, university, and payment companies.
Since its inception in 2016, Fortanix has secured many partnerships, including with Intel, Microsoft, and Google. They have also attracted impressive customers such as Adidas, Paypal, the U.S. Department of Defence, and the University of California San Fransisco.
In 2022, Fortanix raised $90 million in Series C investment, and claims to have reached 500% growth between 2019 and 2022. Its impressive funding came at a time when investments in the cybersecurity sector were scarce, exemplifying its importance as a digital defense partner.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2022
$90m
SERIES C
Jan 2019
$23m
SERIES B
Total funding: $121m
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
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Leadership
Ambuj Kumar
(Co-Founder)Prior to Fortanix, Ambuj worked for NVIDIA where they designed many of the world's most advanced computer chips. They were also the chief architect at Cryptography Research, developing security technology.
Anand Kashyap
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously MTS at Arkin Net, Principal Security at Symantec, Research Intern at Microsoft Research India.
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