Staff Software Site Reliability Engineer FEDRAMP

Who is Tenable

Tenable is the Exposure Management company. 44000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500 45 percent of the Global 2000 and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!

What makes Tenable such a great place to work

Ask a member of our team and theyll answer Our people! We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging respect and excellence where we can be our best selves. When youre part of our #OneTenable team you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together!

Your Role:

Have you heard of Tenable Our cloud-based vulnerability management platform built for todays dynamic IT assets like cloud containers and web apps Well thats what youll be working on in this role. You will need to continue to quickly build out the platform scale it automatically and make it more self-managing for our private and US Government cloud customers!

Your Opportunity:

• Responsible for taking the code and functionality of Tenable cloud products and ensuring theyre reliable and highly available in private cloud environments
• Responsible for responding to support escalations which involve troubleshooting complex technical problems and resolving data/configuration issues within defined service level objectives
• Responsible for developing software tools and scripts to automate deployment management and monitoring of production systems in all environments
• Provide strategic and thought leadership among peers on complex projects
• Collaboration with cloud engineers in understanding new cloud technologies assessing impact to security services operations and proposing solutions to existing business problems
• Collaboration in the software development lifecycle to develop detailed enhancement/bug definitions write functional requirements translate the requirements into solution designs and navigate the functional requirements through to Production deployments
• Proactively look for ways to create efficiencies within operations as it pertains to the tools and technology used by Tenable to support their customer base
• Manage participate in or directly work on any additional projects assignments or initiatives assigned by management
• Create/maintain documentation for operational procedures
• Drive standardization efforts across multiple disciplines and services in conjunction with embedded SREs throughout the organization
• Document and perform system upgrades application updates and define monitoring requirements based on customer needs
• Participate in an on-call rotation and support 24x7 availability of production application systems
• Remediate infrastructure and container security vulnerabilities

What Youll Need:

• U.S citizen required
• 6 years of related SRE experience
• Apply core software engineering fundamentals* (e.g. data structures algorithms concurrency system design) to solve complex reliability and scalability challenges at a distributed level

• To be considered for this role you must meet one of the following criteria.

  • Hybrid: Ability to commute to our Columbia MD/Northern VA office.

  • Hybrid: Ability to commute to our Boston MA office.

  • Remote: Currently reside in the San Francisco Bay Area CA

• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC technologies
• 2 year experience with platform development in compliance with FedRAMP requirements and related government standards policies regulations etc.
• 3 years deploying public cloud infrastructure (AWS GCP Azure) preferred including administering managed AWS services (EKS OpenSearch MSK Batch etc.)
• Experience with orchestration tooling such as Kubernetes
• Experience with Docker or similar container solution
• Bachelors Degree or Masters degree in a technical field such as Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or equivalent work experience
• Strong experience with the Agile software development methodology and collaboration with internal teams to deliver software and configuration artifacts
• Strong background in bash scripting in addition to experience in higher-level scripting languages like Python or
• Experience leading projects through to completion with a team of peers
• Experience deploying distributed microservice oriented applications at scale
• Be an enthusiastic learner user and advocate of our technologies
• Has desire to win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open and willing to try new ideas
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills (written verbal & virtual) with ability to work in a team-oriented collaborative environment
• Must have high degree of personal integrity and ability to maintain strict confidentiality
• Must have a strong drive be self-motivated logical and have a keen attention to detail

And Ideally:

• Experience deploying distributed microservice oriented applications
• Experience with distributed monitoring tools such as: Datadog Splunk OTEL etc.
• Experience with datastore technologies: Kafka Elasticsearch DynamoDB RDS Aurora PostgreSQL
• Experience with Helm
• Experience with Go Java/Kotlin and/or Groovy
• Experience with Java build tools including Gradle
• 2 years of operational experience with industry-leading big data services technologies

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