At Authentic8, we empower organizations to redefine how digital investigations are conducted in an increasingly complex online world. With Silo for Research, our industry-leading solution, we enable secure and anonymous investigations across the surface, deep, and dark web—helping national security, defense, law enforcement, and enterprises uncover critical insights while staying protected.
Designed from the ground up with zero-trust principles and built on globally scaled infrastructure, Silo for Research addresses today's toughest cybersecurity challenges, allowing investigators to work smarter, faster, and safer. Trusted by more than 700 customers worldwide, our platform transforms how intelligence work is done.
Join us, and be part of a mission to protect and empower those who safeguard our world. From our collaborative teams to our cutting-edge technology, we’re not just building solutions—we’re shaping the future of digital investigations.
We have an immediate need for multiple Site Reliability Engineers. The successful candidates will have a passion for automating the day to day operations actions on the infrastructure. We are embarking upon a significant scale expansion that requires a new low touch platform to enable us to scale to our current and future growth rate. With the opportunity to redefine and rebuild everything from our build pipeline to live site management as well as be able to strategically identify, plan, and deploy significant changes to existing processes and infrastructure.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Manage all aspects of our production service: Google Compute Engine, Chef, Kubernetes, Docker, HAProxy, RDP, AWS, Gitlab, Active Directory
- Participate in the design and implementation of a low touch infrastructure platform expansion to support current and future scale.
- Participate in a tier one/two on-call rotation.
- Automate common operator actions to minimize the need for human interaction to resolve common incidents.
- Develop and implement new monitoring strategies to ensure awareness of any customer impacting incidents.
- Collaborate with Eng/QA/Operations to support the effort for zero-downtime deployments.
- Work closely with our Software Developer and QA teams as part of the SDLC to provide bug feedback into future releases.
- Work closely with our Software Developer teams to generate self service tools to assist in debugging/fixing broken builds and provide proactive visibility into the build/CI service.
- Work closely with the QA team to integrate/leverage, as needed, existing QA test suites as part of the build pipeline.
- Integrate our deployment tools (and collaborate to enhance them) into the pipeline to auto build sandbox environments for Engineering, Operations and QA.
- Review, analyze, and recommend solutions and tools to improve the overall software development process.
Qualifications:
- Must be a US Citizen
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent degree.
- 1 year of industry experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar hands on experience automating and managing all aspects of a large scale production web service.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
- UNIX or Linux system administration background.
Experience With:
- Experience with configuration management systems (Chef,Ansible etc.).
- Competent scripting experience: Ruby, Python, and Shell.
- Experience with containerization technology: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, AKS.
- Experience with on prem and cloud based monitoring and visualization: Icinga, Splunk, Grafana, ThousandEyes, Pingdom, New Relic, Datadog.
- Experience with tools/frameworks: git, Gitlab, Django, Nginx, and Postgresql.
- Experience with cloud services platforms: GCP, Azure and AWS
- Experience building Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and iOS packages.
- Some background with virtualization technologies: VirtualBox, VMWare, or Citrix.
Salary Range
- $100,000 - $130,000 plus bonus & equity
Authentic8 Core Values & Principles:
Integrity: We apply our best efforts. We are honest with and accountable to others.
Mission-Focused: We clearly define and communicate our goals and do not stray in the pursuit of our objective.
Respect: We value and respect the ideas and experience our diverse backgrounds bring us. Positive consideration of differing viewpoints makes us stronger.
We are collaborative: We recognize the best work is the product of teams. We must each be reliable and expect to rely on others.
We are transparent: By operating with common information and understanding we ensure that we are aligned.
We find innovative solutions: We seek innovative solutions not as a buzzword but as a means to solve difficult problems with zeal, efficiency and quality.
We take ownership: We are responsible for our actions, our reputation and our business.
Authentic8 offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental and vision, flexible PTO, a 401k program and stock options.
It is the policy of Authentic8 to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
Top Skills
What We Do
Improve the efficiency of your research teams
Authentic8's Silo for Research is a fully isolated, anonymous and secure platform for conducting all forms of online investigations. Use Silo for Research to access web-based resources across the surface, deep or dark web.
Shorten your time-to-insight
Silo for Research improves analyst tradecraft across all phases of the information collection life cycle. Get your teams online and productive without deploying complicated solutions or disrupting your current infrastructure.
Access alternate networks
Span alternate regions, languages and network protocols. Silo for Research spins up one-time-use browser instances that give you access to content across geographies and web protocols. Regardless of the destination resource, your identity or affiliation is never exposed.
Silo for Research lets you match your persona to the specific investigation needs. Appear local to the subject material by accessing the internet through any of Authentic8's access points around the world. Silo for Research combined with good tradecraft ensures your research activities aren't attributed to your analysts or organization.
Automate collections
Silo for Research supports collections of all types of web content as the analyst needs it, or over a period of time. Automation tools allow you to set up regular collection routines to capture a range of web content types, transform the content to a format of your choice and securely store it in the cloud.
Preserve data in the cloud
Investigators may be required to capture and collect content as part of their process. And to maintain efficacy of potential evidence, a proper chain of control and evidentiary requirements must be met. Silo for Research integrates with Authentic8 Secure Storage, an encrypted, audited cloud-based storage repository for users and groups.
"With Silo, there is no need to have a 'dirty' machine because you are fully protected" - Authentic8 Silo for Research customer
