Senior DevOps Engineer (Cortex Research)

Our Mission

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Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

Your Career

As a Senior DevOps Engineer supporting our Cortex Research Group, you will lead all DevOps and infrastructure initiatives that empower our researchers to move quickly, securely, and reliably. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the group’s cloud environments, ensuring scalability, stability, and performance across a wide range of experimental and production workloads. You’ll serve as the primary point of contact between the Research Group and other critical stakeholders—including Security, Networking, and Compliance teams—ensuring that research projects align with organizational standards while still enabling rapid innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Research Group’s cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to enable reproducible, automated, and scalable experimentation.
• Define and implement standards for infrastructure-as-code, observability, monitoring, and resource optimization tailored to research use cases.
• Proactively collaborate with security and compliance teams to enforce best practices for data governance, access controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with networking and platform engineers to integrate research workloads into the broader company ecosystem, ensuring seamless operation.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between the Research Group and stakeholders like Security, Networking, and Platform teams.
• Mentor engineers and researchers on DevOps best practices, helping to instill a culture of operational excellence and applied learning.
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience:

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or cloud infrastructure role.
• Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• In-depth knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure).
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, particularly Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in a scripting or programming language such as Python or Go.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack.
• Experience supporting machine learning or research-focused environments.
  
  

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.