Senior DevOps Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
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Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
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The Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will enhance the security and reliability of our microservices infrastructure. Responsibilities include automating operations, managing production infrastructure (Kubernetes, Cassandra), mentoring team members, and developing security measures for customer data while ensuring best practices in AWS.
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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.
About the Team
Our team focuses on enabling the product teams to develop and run their microservices on secure and scalable infrastructure. We strive to provide a streamlined development experience to our fellow engineers. Additionally we work to maintain a secure and reliable product experience for our customers.
About the Role
In this role, you will:

  • Develop and maintain internal automation that improves the efficiency, reliability and security of microservice operations and deployments
  • Maintain and improve production facing infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Cassandra
  • Develop new ways to improve the security of customer data following the least access principle
  • 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 standards and best-practices for operationalising 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


The skills you'll bring include:

  • 5+ years of experience scaling SaaS services and infrastructure
  • Goal-driven, positive attitude with strong communication skills
  • Proficient in AWS services, including EC2, RDS, EMR, VPC networking, S3, etc.
  • 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, Karpenter, Kong, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Jenkins, Argo, Spinnaker, Git
  • Linux systems experience
  • Passionate about developer experiences


We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. Teams reflecting a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today.
About Rapid7
Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD) helps organizations across the globe protect what matters most so innovation can thrive in an increasingly connected world. Our comprehensive technology, services, and community-focused research simplify the complex for security teams, helping them reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, be in 10 places at once, and shut down attacks. We're on a mission to make security solutions easier to use and access so we can bring safety and resilience to more people.
With more than 10,000 customers across 140+ countries, Rapid7 is a leader in cybersecurity that has earned numerous industry accolades and recognition for our technology and culture.
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HQ: Boston, MA
2,400 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact. We’re building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.

Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we’re continuing to push the envelope - just like we’ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you’re ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we’re ready to help you take command of your career.

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Why Work With Us

With our products, research, and open source communities, we’re building a secure digital future for everyone. This means constantly learning and evolving in an industry that’s anything but stagnant. You’ll be faced with tough challenges, and given the support to find creative solutions that drive our business, and your career forward.

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Our default working model is hybrid, with employees working three days per week in the office. This approach underpins our commitment to flexibility and adaptability while supporting our dedication to development, teamwork and customer purpose.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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