DevOps Engineer

Sophos evolves to meet every new challenge, protecting more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs, our cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions are able to adapt and evolve to secure endpoints and networks against never-before-seen cybercriminal tactics and techniques. Managed through our award-winning, cloud-based platform, Sophos Central, our best-of-breed products work together through our unique Synchronized Security system to share threat intelligence and respond to evolving threats. The Sophos suite of products secures networks and endpoints against automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.

Job Purpose

Sophos is seeking a talented DevOps engineer to join a small, distributed, and highly collaborative agile team and play a major role in the design, implementation, and maintenance of our CI and build systems/infrastructure. Successful candidates will be curious,pragmantic problem-solvers who are excited by challenges and driven by delivering great products. Their contributions will have a direct impact on developer productivity and product delivery.

Main Duties

• Contribute to the design & development of the CI/CD pipelines for NSG products
• Identify & integrate open-source or 3^rd party tools with existing systems to enable engineering teams to work more efficiently
• Define & drive development that continuously improve the performance, scalability & resiliency of the CI/CD pipelines
• Manage the day-to-day operation of CI/CD/build systems which are core to NSG Engineering
• Respond to events and troubleshoot/resolve operational issues

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Experience designing, troubleshooting or working on CI/CD pipelines
• Strong software development skills using Python, Perl, Ruby, or Java
• Good knowledge on Git and its branching model
• Experience working with tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Ansible, SonarQube
• Strong competency in continuous deployment and DevOps patterns
• Understanding of IT operations change management and incident response processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desirable:

• Expertise designing, implementing and operating scalable cloud systems in AWS or Azure
• Experience deploying and operating micro services using Docker containers
• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Expertise designing and implementing monitoring strategies for complex systems
• Security domain/security testing knowledge a plus
• Strong leadership, judgement, and decision making skills

Job Code 3818