Senior DevOps Engineer

Posted Jan 31

Who we are:

We are a fast-growing data science and analytics company that helps organisations manage their security posture using automated metrics and reporting; protecting critical services and data we all rely on.

We’re at the forefront of the cybersecurity industry and have received multiple industry recognitions, having been included in two Gartner Hype Cycles for emerging technologies. In July 2020, Panaseer was featured as an inaugural vendor in the new category of Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) for Risk Management. In July 2021, we were included as an inaugural vendor in the new category of Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) for Network Security. Recently, Momentum Cyber included CCM in its Cybersecurity Almanac, as a next generation technology that will shape the future of cybersecurity, also including Panaseer as an inaugural vendor.

Panaseer developed the first Continuous Controls Monitoring platform that uses automated, data-driven security metrics to give enterprise security leaders greater visibility into their cybersecurity posture. This gives anyone – from executive to analyst – live, trusted insight into their security posture, enabling them to make the best decisions about risk, confidently report to key stakeholders, hold people accountable and prioritise remediation based on their business priorities.

We have raised over $43 million in funding and have won numerous awards - most recently being named winner of ‘Best Product in Continuous Controls Monitoring’ in the Cyber Defense Magazine Awards at RSA Conference 2020. Panaseer’s CCM platform was named as the ‘Best Regulatory Compliance Tool and Solution’ at the 2020 SC Awards Europe. We were also named the ‘Hottest CyberTech Startup’ at TechCrunch's Europas’ Awards.

We have multiple strategic partnerships with leading technology vendors such as Cisco, Amazon Web Services and RSA which strengthens our platform.

Our Engineering Culture

The team hails from a wide range of backgrounds, skill-sets and experience levels. We work with colleagues that have changed their career to tech, returned to work after a career break, are non-graduates and graduates alike. Whatever path you're coming from or stage in life you're at, so long as you have a desire to learn we'd love to hear from you!

Joining our growing engineering team now will give you the opportunity to work at enterprise scale on truly business-critical problems – although we’re a small company thus far, we have a serious impact on huge customers.

We are working remotely from our UK and US hubs. We spend a limited amount of face-to-face time on collaborative work in and around our central hub in London.

Take a look at our Engineering Blog to find out more about our team and technologies.

Requirements

Your Team & Mission

You will join the Cloud Infrastructure team, a function crucial to the success of Panaseer. The Cloud Infrastructure team builds and operates the cloud hosting platform through which our product, the Panaseer SaaS, is delivered to our customers. Our product began its life as on-premises software but over the past 4 years we have embarked on an ambitious cloud journey to become a cloud-first solution, and ultimately drive towards cloud-only. Over 75% of our customers are on the Panaseer SaaS, hosted on AWS IaaS, with plans to migrate the remainder. Recently, we have begun a major cloud transformation project, to build and migrate customers to our second-generation cloud platform, which will adopt fully managed, cloud native PaaS services across AWS & Snowflake to achieve the full benefits of the cloud. Joining at this pivotal time in our journey, you will build and operate our cloud platform to drive big impacts on the business and our customers.

Who You Are:

  • You've worked in start-ups, scale-ups or other small businesses and enjoy the breadth of the role and the fast-paced environment
  • You have a growth mindset with a passion for learning and continuously improving yourself and those around you
  • You're deeply technical being well-versed in cloud technologies and best practices
  • You're comfortable with ambiguity with the ability to clarify loosely-defined requirements, break-down complex problems and research solutions to these problems
  • You are a team player and enjoy working as part of cross-functional Agile development teams

You can demonstrate your abilities in:

  • Designing and implementing scalable and resilient production workloads in AWS with strong security controls (e.g. with IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, EMR)
  • Building cloud environments using Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration Management in Terraform and Ansible
  • Operating and maintaining cloud infrastructure with experience of diagnosing and remediating production incidents
  • Comfortable developing in scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash)
  • Advanced Linux command line skills

Desirable criteria (not essential for the role, but nice to have):

  • Architecting cloud native SaaS solutions based on key concepts such as multi-tenancy and containerisation
  • Knowledge of DevOps / DevSecOps ways of working and associated practices and toolchains (e.g. building CI/CD pipelines)
  • Implementing and using Observability solutions (e.g. logging, monitoring, tracing and alerting)
  • Familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, AWS Athena)
  • Familiarity with the Hadoop & Spark stack
  • AWS Certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Pro)

In your first 3-6 months you'll be:

  • Paired with a buddy on your team to help you get familiar with our codebase and answer day-to-day questions
  • Diving into our current solution, its underlying architecture, and how the solution is provisioned via Terraform into our AWS & Snowflake accounts through our CD pipelines
  • Working closely with the Cloud Infrastructure team on Agile delivery and participating in daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives and sharing your work at internal demos
  • Joining the team's SRE rotation to provide operational support and drive continuous improvement in our cloud environments
  • Being consulted by the wider Product-Engineering Squads, and Customer Success, to collaborate on operations and new tooling and infrastructure to support their needs
  • Owning the design and delivery of new cloud infrastructure projects producing high quality solutions and code
  • Providing feedback and support to other team members to allow the team to achieve their goals

Our interview process typically looks like this:

Whilst we'd love to meet you in person, all our interview stages are currently held remotely via Zoom.

  • Screening - 60minsWe will tell you more about the role, the team, and get to know you, your past experiences and future ambitions.
  • Values & Role Fit Interview - 60minsTo assess your suitability for the role from the perspective of alignment to Panaseer values. You will have the opportunity to meet members of the team and get a chance to ask questions of us too.
  • Case Study Scenario Interview - 90minsWe will send you a case study representing a cloud architectural challenge in advance of the final stage. In the session, we will discuss your approach to the case study scenario.

Benefits

At Panaseer, we strive to enable the best environment and atmosphere:

  • An annual allowance of 25 days per year
  • Competitive salaries including equity options
  • Company pension scheme
  • BUPA Health Insurance for you and your family
  • £500 Amazon voucher for workspace set up
  • We are currently offering a productivity allowance to support remote working (£80 per month tax free)
  • Access to benefits market and employee discounts (Bike to Work Scheme, Co-located workspace passes)
  • Wide range of health and well-being activities, speakers and events and coaching support

Diversity

Panaseer is an equal employer, committed to encouraging diversity and eliminating discrimination in both its role as an employer and as a provider of services. Our aim is that our staff are truly representative of all sections of society and work in an environment where everyone is respected and able to perform to the best of their ability. Our policy is to provide equality and fairness for all in our employment and in our provision of services and not to discriminate, or favour, on the grounds of race, colour, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, nationality or national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, neurodiversity, marital status, parental status, disability, medical condition, physical appearance or socio-economic status.

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