Senior DevOps Engineer
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12 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Who we are
Were a leading global security authority thats disrupting our own category. Our encryption is trusted by the major ecommerce brands the worlds largest companies the major cloud providers entire country financial systems entire internets of things and even down to the little things like surgically embedded pacemakers. We help companies put trust - an abstract idea - to work. Thats digital trust for the real world.
Job summary
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who will play a role in updating the state of our infrastructure automation and operational excellence. This role requires a deep understanding of systems networking monitoring and security with a strong bias toward automation reliability and scale. The ideal candidate will be a technical leader helping to shape the direction of infrastructure and tooling.
What you will do
- Implementation of infrastructure automation monitoring and system reliability practices committed to providing 100% service availability.
- Able to perform forensic system administration troubleshooting unfamiliar Linux systems and services.
- Demonstrates a SecOps mindset with a focus on secure automation and hardened Linux system administration.
- Champion the use and advancement of DevOps best practices including CI/CD infrastructure as code and zero-touch provisioning.
- Utilize best practices in release management incident management capacity planning and operational readiness.
- Instrumentation of services with visualization to speed triage (lower MTTR) allowing no direct access to systems.
- Exerts technical influence horizontallyup and laterally to fellow seniors and down to the team.
- Acts as a mentor to DevOps and engineering team members; share knowledge and foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
- Proactively identify and implement opportunities to increase system resiliency.
- Implement technical direction around infrastructure cloud networking (BGP) and automation strategy.
- Participate in on-call rotation demonstrating strong customer empathy and responsiveness to incidents.
- Own and improve standard operating procedures and system documentation.
- Research prototype and implement new technologies across cloud virtualization and hardware platforms.
What you will have
- Strong Linux systems administration background with a deep understanding of how Linux interacts with hardware (CPU memory disk networking).
- Advanced proficiency in scripting and automation using Ansible Bash Python Packer and Terraform.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2 IAM VPC etc.) and provisioning tools like Terraform and Packer.
- Experience with datacenter operations including racking stacking and remote system management.
- Proven ability to manage and configure systems at scale with zero-touch provisioning approaches.
- Experience managing monitoring systems and developing custom dashboards for observability.
- Solid understanding of networking within a linux environment (Router -> Switch -> Server -> Virtualation -> Linux -> Service) ; BGP and DNS experience is a plus.
- Passion for operational excellence security and performance.
- Ability to self-manage communicate effectively and collaborate with diverse technical teams.
- Willingness and ability to learn new technologies as required.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kentik Splunk or similar network visibility and observability platforms.
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools and pipeline architecture.
- Willingness and ability to learn new languages as required.
- Experience in designing developing and maintaining RESTful APIs following coding best practices.
- Understanding of release management processes in large-scale environments.
Benefits
DigiCert offers a competitive benefits package for all of our full-time employees.
DigiCert is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in its compliance with applicable federal and state laws DigiCert prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity religion color national origin sex age sexual orientation gender identity/expression veterans status status as a qualified person with a disability or genetic information. Individuals from historically underrepresented groups such as minorities women qualified person with disabilities and protected veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
About Company
DigiCert is the leading TLS/SSL Certificate Authority specializing in digital trust for the real world through PKI, IoT, DNS, Document & Software security solutions.
