DevOps Engineer (Security Focus)
Job Summary
Were looking for a DevOps Engineer with a strong security orientation to join our DevOps team at Fiverr.
Fiverrs platform operates at a significant scale and our DevOps team is at the heart of keeping it fast reliable and secure. As we grow so does the scope of our security responsibilities and we need an engineer who can take ownership of that domain while being a full contributing member of the team.
In this role youll drive security-focused initiatives across our cloud infrastructure Kubernetes environments and CI/CD pipelines from IAM hardening and secrets management to supply chain security and cloud posture. At the same time youll take part in core DevOps work: building scalable systems improving platform resilience and supporting Fiverrs continued growth.
Youll work closely with our Security team and other engineering stakeholders and be part of our on-call rotation meaning youll have both the context and the accountability that comes with owning production.
This is a hands-on role for an engineer who takes security seriously moves fast and knows how to get things done in a complex high-scale environment.
Fiverrs Technology Stack:
AWS GCP CLoudFlare Kubernetes Terragrunt Ansible Jenkins ArgoCD Argo Workflows Kong & Nginx HashiCorp Vault Kafka RabbitMQ Mongodb Aurora Postgresql & Mysql Prometheus Grafana VictoriaMetrics
Programming languages: Python NodeJS Go Kotlin
What am I going to do:
- Infrastructure & IaC Security: Define and implement security best practices for Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Terragrunt Ansible) including static analysis misconfiguration detection and compliance validation.
- Container & Kubernetes Security: Implement and operate security controls for our containerized environments secure image management runtime protection and policy enforcement across our Kubernetes clusters.
- CI/CD Security: Design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI ArgoCD) with automated security testing integrated across Fiverrs services and deployment workflows.
- Secrets Management: Own the design and operation of secrets management practices across the platform including Vault administration rotation policies and dynamic secrets integration.
- Security Automation: Automate vulnerability scanning compliance auditing configuration checks and remediation workflows to keep our security posture proactive rather than reactive.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Build and maintain large-scale highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS with a focus on Kubernetes improving resiliency reliability and cost efficiency.
- Collaboration: Partner with the Security team development teams and other stakeholders to embed security into the full development lifecycle and drive cross-team initiatives.
- Incident Response: Own your on-call shifts as part of the DevOps rotation maintaining Fiverrs platform availability and contributing to security incident investigations when needed.
- Tooling & Innovation: Continuously evaluate and adopt tools security and otherwise that raise the bar on engineering efficiency and security posture at Fiverr.
Equal opportunities:
At Fiverr we prioritize diversity. We celebrate difference and embed it into every aspect of our workplace from our community to our product. Fiverr is proud and committed to providing equal opportunity employment to all individuals regardless of race color religion sex sexual orientation citizenship national origin disability Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by addition Fiverr will provide accommodation to individuals with disabilities or a special need.
Requirements:
- 4 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer with hands-on security responsibilities or equivalent DevSecOps experience.
- Production experience with AWS and Kubernetes including securing cloud-native environments at scale.
- AI tooling experience - Claude Code Cursor etc. Writing skills agents.
- 2 years of experience with CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI or equivalent) including integrating automated security testing.
- Experience with IaC tools (Terraform Terragrunt) and securing IaC workflows.
- Experience with AWS security services and practices (IAM KMS GuardDuty CloudTrail) experience with CSPM platforms an advantage.
- Strong knowledge of networking and network security concepts (Load Balancers DNS VPC Security Groups WAF).
- Experience with secrets management solutions (HashiCorp Vault or equivalent).
- Experience with container image scanning and supply chain security tooling (Wiz Trivy Aikido or equivalent).
- Experience with GitOps workflows and tools (ArgoCD or equivalent).
- Experience with observability tooling (Grafana Prometheus VictoriaMetrics Coralogix or equivalent).
- Experience designing and maintaining high-availability solutions for large-scale environments.
- Security certifications (AWS Security Specialty CKS) advantage.
- Development experience advantage.
At Fiverr were not about checklists. If you dont meet 100% of the requirements for this role but still feel passionate about the position and think you have the right skills and qualifications to excel at it we want to hear from you.
About Company
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