Staff DevOps Engineer, Very Good Security
$125-180k
+ VGS stock options
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
Job no longer available
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$125-180k
+ VGS stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To protect the world’s sensitive data, enabling innovation while ensuring security and privacy.
Role
Who you are
- If you are enthusiastic about driving excellence in building and deploying software, passionate about general automation, knowledgeable about engineering systems used in modern cloud-based teams, and possess a solid technical foundation, we’d love to hear from you
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years hands-on experience in building DevOps/GitOps workflows on Kubernetes based cloud environment to achieve continuous delivery
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, components, and best practices
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Helm, or Ansible
- Hands on experience creating helm charts, deployments pipelines and toolchain on top of Kubernetes in public cloud infrastructure preferably AWS
- Automation mindset and Proficiency in programming, scripting (Java, Python, Bash)
- Knowledge of observability solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb and Open Telemetry
- Experience with Dynamic/Static code quality check and Vulnerability scanning
- Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering principles and toolchains
- Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices, CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Argo Rollout, Argo Workflow, ArgoCD or equivalent), APIs and API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka (MSK), Java, Spring Framework, AWS services, GIT
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to understand and explain complex technical issues to a non- technical audience
- Kubernetes certification (CKA, CKAD, etc.) is a plus
- AWS certified solutions architect professional or similar AWS certifications are a plus
What the job involves
- In this crucial role, you'll play a key part in strengthening and streamlining our DevOps/GitOps processes ensuring smooth product operations
- Other responsibilities include general automation and integration of engineering systems to improve developer productivity
- Your extensive expertise in DevOps, GitOps, Linux, public cloud setups, containerization, and monitoring tools will be essential
- You will collaborate closely with software engineering teams to ensure seamless deployment and operation of services, and you will be instrumental in driving continuous improvement and modernization efforts
- This position will directly report to the Director of Engineering Enablement
- Establish standards by building reference “hello world” services in specific languages that are in use at VGS
- Implement templatized CI/CD pipelines for the reference service and collaborate with product teams to ensure adherence of all CI/CD pipelines to the standard
- Evaluate, identify, implement, optimize existing and new tooling to facilitate CI/CD
- Establish and enable automated code promotion best practices for multi-region Kubernetes clusters spread across various environments by building and leveraging automated checks using metrics, logging, analytics, and alerting to ensure high availability, performance, and security
- Lead developer productivity initiatives and partner with engineers to build dev tools that empower developer workflows and deployment infrastructure
- Continuously evaluate and implement best practices, tools, and methodologies to improve DevOps and Developer productivity processes and workflows
- Drive change by establishing and governing code/build/release metrics/scorecards for each product team
- Develop automation scripts and tools to streamline operational tasks and integrate various engineering systems with each other
- Incorporating security measures seamlessly into the DevOps pipeline, ensuring that security is an integral part of the development and deployment lifecycle
- Work with an Agile team, attend daily scrums; communicating and collaborating frequently with teammates to ensure successful completion of project objectives
Our take
As scaling businesses grow, data security can take a back seat. Very Good Security takes the pressure off by assuming liability for sensitive data and ensuring compliance with one simple integration. It's an enticing proposition that enables its customers to get to market faster while offloading the risks of data custodianship.
VGS’s secured vaults and zero-data approach means clients don’t have to become security geniuses themselves and instead can focus on what’s unique to their business. Competing against TokenEx, HP’s Voltage, Thales’ Vormetric, and more VGS is trying to disrupt the do-it-yourself status quo of the data security industry. VGS also expedites certifications against PCI DSS, SOC2, and GDPR requirements, and reduces the total cost of compliance by up to 70 percent.
VGS has already attracted significant investment as well as an impressive set of customers (including Brex and Deliveroo). With more companies looking for tailored solutions as they transition to the cloud, VGS is developing several new capabilities to further automate compliance controls for customers on its platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$60m
SERIES C
Oct 2019
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $103.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive health benefits including medical, dental, & vision insurance
- VGS stock options
- 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting of employer match
- Life & disability insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (dependent and healthcare FSA)
- Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
- 11 US company holidays
- Eligibility for health benefits starts on Day 1!
- New hire home office set up allowance
- Professional learning reimbursement
Company HQ
Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mahmoud Abdelkader
(Co-Founder)They started their career as a CSC Consulting Software Engineer before 2 years as the ModelsHotel.com CIO and working at Wachovia and eBay. They co-founded Balanced in 2011, leaving their CTO position in 2015 to co-found Very Good Security in April 2016.
Marshall Jones
(Co-Founder)They are a seasoned engineer who has built countless products in the fintech industry. Formerly VP of Engineering at Balanced, a payment system for marketplaces.
Chuck Yu
(CEO)Previously CRO at DriveWealth, Vice President of Digital Partnerships at Visa and Head of Finance and Operations at Point.
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