Point Wild helps customers monitor, manage, and protect against the risks associated with their identities and personal information in a digital world. Backed by WndrCo, Warburg Pincus and General Catalyst, Point Wild is dedicated to creating the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. Our vision is to become THE go-to resource for every cyber protection need individuals may face - today and in the future.
Join us for the ride!
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic and growing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation, with a strong focus on AWS services, solid hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and a practical understanding of Microsoft Azure fundamentals. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for managing, improving, and scaling our cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP environments, while also understanding Azure concepts where needed for multi-cloud planning, vendor conversations, and basic troubleshooting.
Day to Day:
- Cloud Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP using different services. Maintain practical familiarity with Azure equivalents.
- CI/CD Pipeline Development: Implement and manage continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines.
- Automation: Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments using Terraform across AWS and GCP, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Monitoring & Optimization: Monitor cloud infrastructure and applications to ensure high availability, performance, and cost optimization. Recommend any other tooling/automation necessary for production logging and observability.
- Collaboration: Work closely with developers and operations teams to ensure smooth release cycles and infrastructure scaling.
- Security & Compliance: Implement security best practices for managing AWS and GCP resources, with a practical understanding of Azure security concepts. Ensure compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements.
- Incident Management: Respond to system outages or issues, providing troubleshooting and support for incident resolution.
- Documentation: Maintain clear and concise documentation on infrastructure, processes, and procedures for internal use.
What you bring to the table:
- Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, with at least 3 years working specifically with AWS services, direct hands-on experience supporting GCP infrastructure and services, and familiarity with Azure fundamentals.
- AWS & GCP Expertise: Solid knowledge of AWS services, and strong hands-on experience with GCP services
- Azure Familiarity: Practical understanding of Microsoft Azure core services and concepts.
- Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Expert level on Terraform is a must, including experience building and managing infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
- CI/CD: Strong experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Expert level of GitHub Actions is a must.
- Scripting: Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Python, Bash, or Ruby.
- Monitoring Tools: Solid knowledge with monitoring and alerting tools across AWS and GCP. Familiarity with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics is expected.
- Version Control: Experience with Git, GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
- Containerization & Orchestration: Solid knowledge with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized applications, including ECS, EKS, GKE, AKS, or self-hosted Kubernetes.
- Security: Strong understanding of AWS and GCP cloud security principles, IAM/IAM roles, VPC/VPC networking, encryption strategies, secrets management, logging, and least-privilege access controls. Practical familiarity with Azure identity, networking, and security concepts is expected.
- Collaboration & Communication: Ability to work effectively with development teams, system administrators, and other stakeholders.
- Problem-Solving: Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills.
It would be great if you also had:
- Familiarity with Terraform providers/modules for Azure.
- Proficiency with AWS CloudFormation.
As part of Point Wild, you will:
Solve real customer problems. Point Wild’s point solutions allow consumers to address their immediate cyber protection needs. Our mandate is to continuously anticipate our customers’ evolving digital security needs to create best-in-class solutions aimed at keeping them safe.
See your impact. We are a scrappy, nimble organization where individual contributions are needed and valued. You will see your impact every day.
Accelerate your career. As we expand, you will have the opportunity to learn new technologies, products, and markets in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
Most importantly, you’ll get to work with other talented people at a company where people matter. If you want to put your fingerprint on an organization and leapfrog your growth, this is the place for you.
In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination or harassment based on “protected categories,” Point Wild is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Point Wild.
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