Senior DevOps Engineer - Observability

About the position

At Rapid7, you'll join a world class team of thinkers and problem solvers building a modern security platform. We're seeking a highly motivated team member to help ensure our platform is secure, reliable and available for thousands of customers that rely on it every day. Our team focuses on driving observability as a company priority by ensuring teams have access to standard metrics, dashboards and alerts, in order to improve operational maturity. We strive to grow the monitoring capabilities of teams through cross team collaboration measuring progress with service level objectives (SLOs).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain internal automation that improves the observability, reliability and security of microservice operations and deployments
• Maintain and improve production facing infrastructure such as Kubernetes
• Develop new ways to improve the alerting and observability of production systems
• Educate and mentor fellow engineers on internal tooling and AWS architecture
• Help make Kubernetes the foundation of our microservice environment
• Work closely with our product teams to help establish, build, and maintain reliability standards and best-practices such as SLAs for operationalizing the Insight Platform, running inside the AWS cloud
• Participate in sustainable on-call incident response followed by blameless postmortems
• Automate infrastructure through Terraform, Ansible, Podman and Kubernetes

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in scaling SaaS services and infrastructure
• Goal-driven, positive attitude with strong communication skills
• Proficient in AWS services, including EC2, VPC networking, S3, etc.
• Comfortable with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Datadog, or Prometheus
• Comfortable with one or more of: Python, Ruby, Java, Groovy, Bash
• Working knowledge with one or more of: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Podman
• Familiar with Istio, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Jenkins, Argo, and Git
• Linux systems experience
• Passionate about developer experiences