Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Forescout Technologies Inc. is a leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to protecting critical infrastructure from cyber threats. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for scaling and securing the Azure-based SaaS platform, driving SRE best practices, and contributing to FedRAMP compliance initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, secure, and scale our SaaS platform on Azure using services like AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and related services
- Lead the development and optimization of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release engineering workflows using tools like Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps
- Drive SRE principles across the organization, focusing on observability, incident response, availability, performance monitoring, and operational excellence
- Contribute directly to our FedRAMP compliance readiness efforts, including secure configuration management, audit logging, documentation, and operational procedures
- Provide Tier 2/3 operational support, including support during maintenance windows and participation in an on-call rotation during North American business hours
- Support ongoing capacity planning, cost optimization, and scaling efforts for key infrastructure services
- Maintain and improve production monitoring, alerting, and runbooks to ensure high reliability and rapid-incident response
- Participate in security, availability, and disaster recovery planning
- Document operational processes, architectural decisions, and runbooks in a structured, trackable system (e.g., Jira, Confluence)
Skills
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles
- 3+ years of experience with Azure Cloud and its native services (especially AKS, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Monitor, Key Vault, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for microservices architectures and serverless environments
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm charts, and managing cloud-native workloads
- Expertise in infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform
- Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python)
- Deep experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, etc
- Familiarity with FedRAMP, SOC2, or other security/compliance frameworks (working experience on a FedRAMP-authorized environment is a strong plus)
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and compliance teams
- Proven ability to work effectively in remote teams across time zones
- Experience with GitHub Actions/Workflows, and GitLab CI
- Experience with distributed databases such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis
- Exposure to security practices in SaaS environments (encryption, secret management, network hardening)
- Familiarity with change management processes
- Relevant Azure certifications
- Prior experience contributing to or leading FedRAMP or other regulated compliance initiatives
Benefits
- We cover 85% of employee and dependents’ benefits premiums (US only)
- 401K match
- Generous PTO policy
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