DevOps Team Lead, Semperis
Identity-driven enterprise protection platform
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Identity-driven enterprise protection platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help customers avoid disruptive cyberattacks and be resilient so they can say no to ransom demands.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in SaaS or cloud-native environments
- 2+ years in a formal engineering leadership role, including people management and performance reviews
- Proven expertise with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and services
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Terraform and Terragrunt
- Kubernetes (AKS) and Helm
- Istio Service Mesh and Istio Ingress Gateways
- ArgoCD and GitOps workflows
- CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps
- Zero Trust architecture, including PIM and RBAC
- Observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor
- Bash scripting; Python or Go for automation/tooling
- Comfortable supporting production systems in on-call rotation
- Strong communication, leadership, and troubleshooting abilities
- Experience with WAFs and secure network configurations in Azure
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven systems
- Familiarity with microservices and distributed systems architecture
- Advanced knowledge of OpenSearch or Elasticsearch
- Deep understanding of CosmosDB performance tuning and data modeling
- Exposure to Azure API Management, Logic Apps, and other Azure native services
- Experience building and operating large-scale SaaS platforms
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer Team Leader to join our Engineering organization and take ownership of the deployment, orchestration, and secure operations of our cutting-edge identity and security products
- You’ll lead a global team while staying intimately involved in the technical delivery and evolution of our DevOps strategy
- This is a player-coach role: you'll architect and implement solutions directly, while also guiding, mentoring, and enabling a team of engineers to operate at the highest standards of DevOps excellence
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of build and release pipelines
- Provide day-to-day guidance and direct support to a team of three global DevOps engineers
- Conduct 1:1s, deliver performance reviews, and promote professional development across the team
- Architect and execute cloud deployment strategies for optimized performance and cost efficiency
- Review code, infrastructure configurations, and documentation to uphold best practices
- Train and mentor developers and stakeholders in Azure DevOps and Git workflows
- Advocate for DevOps culture and best practices across engineering and IT teams
- Collaborate with Infrastructure engineers to diagnose and resolve deployment challenges
- Document and communicate procedures with clarity and consistency
- Troubleshoot issues during deployment and provide production support in staging and live environments
- Represent the team in cross-functional meetings with insightful recommendations
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies for possible adoption
- Design and manage Azure infrastructure using IaC principles with Terraform and Terragrunt
- Maintain AKS clusters with Istio for secure, scalable service-to-service communication
- Manage Azure resources such as networking, Key Vault, Blob Storage, and CosmosDB
- Configure OpenSearch clusters for efficient logging and data indexing
- Optimize CosmosDB performance with scaling strategies and cost oversight
- Lead the development of robust CI/CD pipelines
- Establish and maintain GitOps workflows via ArgoCD
- Author and maintain automation scripts (primarily Bash) to streamline operations
- Continuously evaluate and enhance deployment and developer processes
- Implement Zero Trust security architecture using Azure PIM and RBAC
- Define and enforce least privilege access models and security best practices
- Configure Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and manage network security in Azure
- Ensure alignment with compliance frameworks and standards
- Deploy observability tooling using OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response protocols
- Lead post-incident analysis and drive implementation of long-term fixes
Our take
Identity systems such as Microsoft Active Directory and Azure AD, used in over 90% of enterprises, are coming under sustained attack. With its multi-layered defense approach before, during, and after an attack, Semperis offers the industry’s most comprehensive security technology for hybrid AD and other identity systems, combined with incident response expertise.
The security-focused firm has grown rapidly in recent years, meaning that it was able to launch its own partner program, known as Vigilance. This enables other companies to benefit from the market position of Semperis by offering its solutions as part of an overall business model.
Semperis’ patented technology protects over 50 million identities from cyberattacks, data breaches, and operational errors. As Semperis has become increasingly well-known, its qualities have been widely acknowledged. It is trusted to fend off cyber attacks by enterprises such as Hertz, Starbucks, and Independence Blue Cross.
Recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America, Semperis has clearly found its position in a competitive market that features the likes of Sumo Logic, IBM Security QRadar, Amazon GuardDuty and Threat Stack. Lately, it has focussed on hiring across all functions globally to better support its expanding customer base, as well as build out its senior team.
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Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$125m
LATE VC
May 2022
$200m
SERIES C
Total funding: $365m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Hoboken, NJ
Leadership
Mickey Bresman
(CEO )Mickey began his technical career in the Israeli Navy computing technical unit. Before co-founding Semperis, they were the CTO of a Microsoft gold partner integration company, YouCC Technologies, and Senior Infrastructure Specialist at Bank Leumi, where they led the implementation of critical commercial systems.
Guy Teverovsky
(CTO )Prior to co-founding Semperis, Guy was a Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, acting as lead and mentor for Active Directory. They have managed Microsoft infrastructure upgrade projects and support services at SmartX, Team Computers and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.
Matan Liberman
(General Manager, Israel)Matan began their career as a Software Engineer for the Israeli Defence Force and was promoted to Development Team Leader. They are currently the General Manager for the Israel Branch of Semperis and are involved in research and development.
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