DevOps Engineer I

Who is Forcepoint?

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

Who is Forcepoint?

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

Forcepoint is looking for a highly motivated DevOps Engineer to join our growing team. As a DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for building out and supporting the automation tools for deploying and maintaining Forcepoint products as well as championing new tools and processes across our organization. The role requires an experienced, talented DevOps Engineer with 5 to 6 years of experience. You’ll be bringing your talent and expertise along with a passion for automation and  innovation.

What you will be doing 

• Helping drive innovation through improvements to the CI/CD pipeline
• Appropriately and efficiently automating through tools such as Terraform, Ansible and Python
• Supporting teams who use our tools such as Engineering, Professional Services and Sales Engineering 
• Running our infrastructure as code via git and webhooks 
• Building a strong DevOps culture while also fostering strong collaboration with all areas of development, product, and QA 
• Documenting all the things! 
• Mentoring junior team members and foster a collaborative, process-mature team 
• Being passionate about championing new tools, processes and helping adoption across our organization 
• DevSecOps best practices championed across the team and organization

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and support automated, scalable solutions to deploy and manage our global infrastructure.
• Implement effective CI/CD processes and pipelines. • Build integrations between services to create fully automated processes.
• Maintaining and improving the functionality of automation tools for infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment.
• Identify opportunities to optimize current solutions and perform hands-on troubleshooting of problems related systems and performance in Prod/QA/Dev environments.

Preferred Skills:

• BS in Computer Science or similar degree and 1+ years of related experience, or equivalent work experience
• Experience working with automated server configuration and deployment tools
• Strong working knowledge of AWS, certifications preferred
• Proficiency working in Linux environments, particularly with customer-facing systems
• Knowledge of IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, and firewalling.
• Strong working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform /Cloud Formation)
• Nginx, Apache, HAproxy
• Object oriented programing experience, language such as Java, Python, C++
• Deployment and support of containers such as Docker, Kubernetes
• GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong practical Linux based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
• Scripting (BASH/ Python)
• Automation (Ansible/Chef/Puppet)
• CI/CD Tools, primarily Jenkins
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and development pipeline processes.
• AWS, Google Cloud Compute, Azure (at least one of)
• Prior success in automating a real-world production environment.
• Experience in implementing monitoring tools and fine-tuning the metrics for optimal monitoring.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.

Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

The policy of Forcepoint is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.

Forcepoint is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company’s career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to recruiting@forcepoint.com.

Applicants must have the right to work in the location to which you have applied.