Lead Software Engineer - DevOps

We are expanding our Global footprint into Prague and as we build out our Product & Engineering teams, we are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer. In this role you'll contribute our DevOps team in Prague and deliver state-of-the-art cloud applications hosted in AWS. As a member in our Platform Delivery team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to a high-profile group that plays a critical role in the organization. This team works cross-functionally across engineering departments to ensure the timely release of multiple products.

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. Our team focuses on enabling the product teams to develop and run their microservices on secure and scalable infrastructure. We strive to provide a streamlined development experience to our fellow engineers. Additionally we work to maintain a secure and reliable product experience for our customers.

We strive to maintain a DevOps culture (empowering development, infrastructure as code, etc.) for a growing set of micro-service based SaaS products. We also support an ownership culture and have developers on-call for their services. We find this helps prevent the traditional "worked in Dev, Ops problem now" mentality.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience scaling SaaS services and infrastructure 

• Goal-driven, positive attitude with strong communication skills 

• Strong experience with GCP or Azure or AWS services, including EC2, RDS, EMR, VPC networking, S3, etc. 

• Strong experience with one or more of: Python, Ruby, Java, Groovy, Bash

• Strong experience with one or more of: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Podman

• Familiar with some of these: Istio, Karpenter, Kong, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Git

• Strong experience with Linux systems

• Passionate about developer experiences

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain internal automation that improves the efficiency, reliability and security of microservice operations and deployments

• Maintain and improve production facing infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Cassandra

• Develop new ways to improve the security of customer data following the least access principle

• 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 standards and best-practices for operationalising 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

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That’s because these teams reflect 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 is creating a more secure digital future for all by helping organizations strengthen their security programs in the face of accelerating digital transformation. Our portfolio of best-in-class solutions empowers security professionals to manage risk and eliminate threats across the entire threat landscape from apps to the cloud to traditional infrastructure to the dark web. We foster open source communities and cutting-edge research–using these insights to optimize our products and arm the global security community with the latest in attacker methods. Trusted by more than 10,000 customers worldwide, our industry-leading solutions and services help businesses stay ahead of attackers, ahead of the competition, and future-ready for what’s next.
 

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