Rapid7 Senior Software Engineer - DevOps 

United States, Texas, Austin 

940770168

Senior Software Engineer (DevOps)

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Platform Delivery Security team you'll be responsible for applying cloud security best practices across the Rapid7 platform. You will be helping build and improve security within the all cloud infrastructure, keeping on top of security threats with critical infrastructure components. We're seeking a motivated engineer to help ensure our platform is secure, reliable and available for thousands of customers that rely on it every day.

You'll work directly with, but not limited to, the following technologies:

AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC networking, S3, Network Firewall etc.), Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub, Slack

In This Role, You Will:

• Collaborate with engineering teams to level-up security across our platform - from design to deployment to operations, monitoring, upgrade and maintenance

• Engage with our Information Security teams to continually evolve how we protect our customers’ data and our platform

• Automate infrastructure through Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible and Docker/Kubernetes

• Utilize a wide range of skills across software development, networking, Linux sysadmin, configuration management, clustered datastores, cloud services, and deployment technologies.

• Working on projects - managing the technical details, organizing and planning infrastructural work without downtime, and helping others understand the priorities and needs of that work.

• Define and implement Cloud Security best practices across the Platform using Rapid7 products and automated tooling.

• Gather technical evidence for security audits when required

The skills you’ll bring include:

• Proven experience working with SaaS services and infrastructure

• Proficient in a Cloud Provider such as AWS/Azure/GCP with experience working with services(or the equivalent) EC2, EKS or ECS, IAM, VPC networking, S3.

• Networking and linux system administration skills

• Comfortable with one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Javascript, Java, Bash

• Working knowledge with one or more of the following - Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Ansible, Puppet

• Passionate about Cloud Security and developer experiences

• Goal-driven, positive attitude with strong communication skills

• A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.

• Never done mentality