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Who is Forcepoint?
Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!
Job Description
Forcepoint is looking for a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join our Demo Factory team. This individual is well versed with private & public cloud technologies along with strong experience in core systems engineering skills. The candidate will support Forcepoint’s Private Cloud Demonstration Platform and assist in building new capabilities / integrations into the platform. Additionally, the individual will play a critical role in defining the future of the platform, including methodologies used in scalability, orchestration, disaster recovery, and workload distribution across private/public cloud infrastructure. This senior resource has experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and Agile methodologies. The candidate has multiple years of experience and highly skilled in monitoring, reverse engineering and troubleshooting systems at scale.
The successful candidate is customer focused, a self-starter, able and willing to work with geo-dispersed teams. This role will also be responsible for mentoring less-experienced staff.
Essential Functions
- Develop, publish, and implement technology lifecycle roadmap for hardware and systems portfolio
- Publish and implement operational standards for Private Cloud infrastructure and services follow rigger
- Lead development, documentation, and operationalization of system processes to enhance service delivery outcomes across the organization
- Responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, and capacity planning of the Private Cloud infrastructure
- Create tooling and automation to continuously improve operational reliability of the on-prem and hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Participate in incident, change, and problem management
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues with platform technologies such as, but not limited to, Linux, NGINX, Routing, Reverse Proxy, Docker, KVM, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kapacitor/Telegraf, Nginx, GNS3, Ansible, Grafana, Git
- REST API design and experience a plus, especially Python and Flask (or similar) frameworks.
Education, Experience, and Skills
- Expertise in full stack development a plus
- Deep experience in the design and deployment of Public Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OVH)
- Expertise in Windows/Linux (Server 2012/2016/RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)
- Expertise in virtualization technologies (KVM/VMware/Hyper-V)
- Proficient and self-reliant in at least one modern scripting or programming language such as Python, C, Java, JavaScript, Lua and Go
- Deep experience with infrastructure automation, such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
- Hands-on experience with core operations systems such as AD, LDAP, DNS and NTP
- Hands-on experience with core internet protocols such as HTTP, SSL, SMTP
- Hands-on experience with containers and containers management such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesosphere DC/OS
- Understanding of services at scale in large networks
- Familiar with mission-critical databases, particularly PostgreSQL, Influx DB, MySQL and Redis
- Familiar with Cloud native databases
- Familiar with Flask (or similar) framework
Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.
The policy of Forcepoint is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.
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About the company
Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. Based in Austin, Texas, Forcepoint creates safe, trusted environments for customers and their employees in more than 150 countries.
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