Senior DevOps Engineer

Akeyless Security delivers a cloud-native SaaS platform that integrates Vaultless Secrets Management with Certificate Lifecycle Management, Next Gen Privileged Access Management (Secure Remote Access), and Encryption Key Management to manage the lifecycle of all machine identities and secrets across all environments.

Trusted by Fortune 100 companies and industry leaders, Akeyless is redefining identity security for the modern enterprise, delivering the world’s first unified Secrets & Machine Identity platform designed to prevent the #1 cause of breaches – compromised identities and secrets. Backed by the world’s leading cybersecurity investors and global financial institutions including JVP, Team8, NGP Capital, and Deutsche Bank.

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate is a proactive problem-solver with extensive experience in architecting and maintaining high-scale, production grade SaaS environments across multiple cloud providers.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Akeyless, you will be part of a high-performing team, leading the company infrastructure. You will work in a dynamic and agile environment with the most cutting edge technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Design and plan large-scale, multi-cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) production architectures, ensuring compliance with strict SLAs.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using tools like Terraform/Terragrunt, and leveraging GitOps methodologies.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support multiple development teams.
• Establish best practices for observability, logging, and alerting using technologies such as Datadog, Coralogix, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus/Grafana.
• Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency across all environments.
• Manage and operate message brokers (RabbitMQ), databases (MySQL, Redis), at scale.
• Mentor engineers, fostering a strong DevOps culture and establishing standard practices within the organization.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps experience.
• Proven expertise in major Cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) in production environments.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and Docker in high-scale production environments.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining high-scale SaaS production infrastructure.
• Expertise in CI/CD practices using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab, and familiarity with ArgoCD.
• Hands-on experience with Helm for packaging and managing Kubernetes deployments.
• Infrastructure as Code proficiency with Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Familiarity with monitoring stacks (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana, OTEL, Coralogix).
• Proactive, independent self-starter who plans and executes tasks while maintaining a collaborative team presence.
• Leveraged AI automation to improve DevOps workflows, enhancing system reliability, deployment speed, and operational efficiency.
• A strong passion for innovation and creative problem-solving.

Valued Qualifications (Advantages):

• Good understanding of security infrastructure, secured coding, and/or related certifications.
• Experience in B2B Cyber Security, Cloud Security, Identity & Access Management, or Encryption Keys Management.
• Networking knowledge including protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, AMQP) and network operations.
• Strong ability for root cause analysis and big-picture thinking.