Automation Engineer, Darktrace
AI cybersecurity solutions
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AI cybersecurity solutions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To free the world from cyber disruption.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-on experience with automation and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible)
- Proficiency in CI/CD workflows (preferably GitLab CI) and containerization (Docker)
- Strong scripting skills in Python and/or Bash, with solid Linux fundamentals
Desirable
- Experience with Kubernetes or virtualization platforms
- Exposure to observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Familiarity with partner or vendor integration workflows
What the job involves
- Darktrace operates an integrations lab to validate, certify, and continuously test third-party technologies against our platform
- As an Automation Engineer, you will own the lab’s automation stack, leveraging configuration management (e.g., Ansible) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) to provision, update, and maintain integration environments
- As the Automation Engineer, you’ll automate everything from base images and standardized configurations to test data seeding and synthetic traffic, ensuring our integration catalogue remains healthy, secure, and up to date
- Automating Environment Lifecycle: Build reproducible environments, standardize OS configurations, and manage rollouts via CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborating with Product Teams: Configure new integrations, validate third-party technologies, and document setup and troubleshooting steps
- Ensuring Observability & Reliability: Implement logging, metrics, health checks, and automated drift detection; define SLOs and SLIs for uptime and recovery
- Documentation & Enablement: Maintain living documentation and integrate automation into self-service pipelines
- You will be a skilled professional with a strong foundation in DevOps and automation, experienced in infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and scripting
Our take
With the rise of sophisticated cyberattacks, the need for cutting-edge defence mechanisms has never been more critical. Darktrace addresses this challenge by leveraging AI-enabled threat detection technology, enabling organisations to swiftly identify and respond to abnormal network activity.
By utilising machine learning algorithms, Darktrace allows businesses to combat a wide range of cyber threats, from data breaches to insider attacks. This safeguards their digital assets and helps them maintaining operational resilience.
The company's recent acquisition by private equity giant Thoma Bravo marks a significant milestone in its journey. The acquisition provides Darktrace with access to a strong financial partner and deep software sector expertise, positioning it to further enhance its capabilities as a leading AI cybersecurity business.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2018
$50m
SERIES E
Jul 2017
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $230.5m
Company benefits
- 23 days paid holiday plus UK bank holidays, increasing to 25 days after two years’ service
- Additional birthday day off
- Salary Sacrifice pension scheme with 4% employer contribution and minimum 5% employee contribution
- Optional BUPA private medical insurance for you and your immediate family
- Life assurance with a benefit of 4x your annual basic salary
- Employee Assistance Programme offering both on-line and telephone support and resources to you and your family
- Cycle to work scheme
- Active social and charity initiatives including our matched charitable giving scheme and employee recognition scheme
Company HQ
Cambridge, UK
Leadership
Jack Stockdale
(CTO)Co-founded Darktrace in 2013 and has served as the CTO since.
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