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Senior DevOps Engineer - Observability

Posted 10 Days Ago
Remote
Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in Austin, TX
50K-120K
Senior level
Remote
Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in Austin, TX
50K-120K
Senior level
Develop and maintain automation for observability and reliability, support Kubernetes infrastructure, and mentor engineers in AWS and operational practices.
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At Rapid7, you'll join a world class team of thinkers and problem solvers building a modern security platform. We're seeking a highly motivated team member to help ensure our platform is secure, reliable and available for thousands of customers that rely on it every day.
About the Team
Our team focuses on driving observability as a company priority by ensuring teams have access to standard metrics, dashboards and alerts, in order to improve operational maturity. We strive to grow the monitoring capabilities of teams through cross team collaboration measuring progress with service level objectives (SLOs).
About the Role
In this role, you will:

  • Develop and maintain internal automation that improves the observability, reliability and security of microservice operations and deployments
  • Maintain and improve production facing infrastructure such as Kubernetes
  • Develop new ways to improve the alerting and observability of production systems
  • Educate and mentor fellow engineers on internal tooling and AWS architecture
  • Help make Kubernetes the foundation of our microservice environment
  • Work closely with our product teams to help establish, build, and maintain reliability standards and best-practices such as SLAs for operationalizing the Insight Platform, running inside the AWS cloud
  • Participate in sustainable on-call incident response followed by blameless postmortems
  • Automate infrastructure through Terraform, Ansible, Podman and Kubernetes


The skills you'll bring include:

  • 5+ years of experience in scaling SaaS services and infrastructure
  • Goal-driven, positive attitude with strong communication skills
  • Proficient in AWS services, including EC2, VPC networking, S3, etc.
  • Comfortable with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Datadog, or Prometheus
  • Comfortable with one or more of: Python, Ruby, Java, Groovy, Bash
  • Working knowledge with one or more of: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Podman
  • Familiar with Istio, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Jenkins, Argo, and Git
  • Linux systems experience
  • Passionate about developer experiences


We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. Teams reflecting a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today.
About Rapid7
Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD) helps organizations across the globe protect what matters most so innovation can thrive in an increasingly connected world. Our comprehensive technology, services, and community-focused research simplify the complex for security teams, helping them reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, be in 10 places at once, and shut down attacks. We're on a mission to make security solutions easier to use and access so we can bring safety and resilience to more people.
With more than 10,000 customers across 140+ countries, Rapid7 is a leader in cybersecurity that has earned numerous industry accolades and recognition for our technology and culture.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law.

Top Skills

Ansible
Argo
AWS
Bash
Datadog
Elasticsearch
Git
Grafana
Groovy
Istio
Java
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Podman
Prometheus
Python
Ruby
Splunk
Terraform
HQ

Rapid7 Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office

Rapid7 Boston Office

Rapid7 is located next to TD Garden and North Station. The Garden is home to the Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, and year round musical performances and entertainment events. North station provides easy access to public transportation through the T and Commuter Rail.

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