Senior Production Engineer (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Senior Production Engineer (Cybersecurity): Building, scaling, and operating the cloud platform for hirify.global’s machine identity security products with an accent on scalability and resilience. Focus on enhancing the CI/CD ecosystem, driving Infrastructure as Code initiatives, and collaborating with development teams to advocate for SRE best practices.

Location: United States

Salary: $155,000 – $194,000/year

Company

hirify.global, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise.

What you will do

• Architect and operate the highly available Cloud Infrastructure platform for hirify.global Certificate Manager with a focus on scalability and resilience.
• Enhance and optimize the CI/CD ecosystem to ensure fast, secure, and reliable software delivery.
• Collaborate with development teams to advocate for SRE best practices, observability, and cloud-native design patterns.
• Drive "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) initiatives to eliminate manual toil and improve system consistency.

Requirements

• 3-6 years of relevant work experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Strong hands-on experience architecting and managing infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP (multi-cloud experience is a plus).
• Advanced expertise in managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, or GKE), including troubleshooting complex cluster issues.
• Proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions).
• Strong proficiency in scripting and software development using Python or Go for automation and tooling.
• Extensive experience in 24/7 production environments, including incident management, on-call rotation, and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Solid understanding of Linux system administration and networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, Load Balancing, VPC peering, and mTLS).

Nice to have

• A proactive "Security-First" mindset, familiar with DevSecOps practices.
• Ability to adapt to rapid changes and mentor junior engineers on cloud technologies.
• Professional certifications (CKA/CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, or Azure Administrator).
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits.
• Equal Opportunity Employer.