Contrast Security is the world’s leader in Runtime Application Security, embedding code analysis and attack prevention directly into software. Contrast’s patented security instrumentation disrupts traditional AppSec approaches with integrated and comprehensive security observability that delivers highly accurate assessment and continuous protection of an entire application portfolio. The Contrast Runtime Security Platform enables powerful Application Security Testing and Application Detection and Response, allowing developers, AppSec teams, and SecOps teams to better protect and defend their applications against the ever-evolving threat landscape. Application Security programs need to modernize and Contrast empowers teams to innovate with confidence.
As a member of the Cloud Engineering team, you are part of a team responsible for ensuring availability, reliability, responsiveness, and scalability across all Contrast production services. You are intensely hands-on with our cloud-based infrastructure, Linux systems, automation, monitoring, and systems telemetry.
You work with our engineering team to design and build system infrastructure that is automated, elastic, and reliable. The tools you build and provide increase automation, consistency, and confidence in all platforms. . In a teammate, we expect you to challenge conventional wisdom and encourage everyone to have simpler solutions. You are a teammate interested in the products we work on and passionate about making the Internet a safer place.
Ideal candidates have a background or interest in working with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFormation, and Restful API development. If you’re amazing but missing some of these, apply anyway. Please include a link to your Github or BitBucket account and any links to some of your projects, if available.
Responsibilities
- Ability to harness all AWS has to offer – you’ll be spinning up new scalable environments quickly and keeping our AWS accounts tidy and efficient.
- Experience authoring Terraform, Kubernetes manifests, and Helm charts.
- A love of observability (ideally Datadog).
- Familiarity with Linux containers and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Understanding of HTTP, REST, networking concepts, and global load-balancing
- A passion for automation – a key team goal is to reduce daily toil through automation
- Work cross-functionally within a service team and be a core contributor to every significant engineering solution that is delivered
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
- Participate in on-call rotations along with every member of the engineering team
- Solid understanding of system design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs
- Ability to lead and mentor.
- Solid programming and troubleshooting skills. You may be called upon to help with systems written in Java, Go, Python and NodeJS. We are looking for people who value the opportunity to dig through a codebase for debugging and commit tactical fixes as needed.
About You
- You have 8+ years in technology, with at least three in a Cloud Engineer, DevOps, or SRE role.
- You’re a storyteller with compelling stories about when you learned something new to solve a problem for your company and stories about how you helped your teammates build up.
- You have powerful stories about the failures and mistakes you’ve made and the lessons learned. You share them as cautionary tales with your teammates.
- You love to code and deploy at scale.
- You have a desire to make the Internet a safer place.
- You had a passion for tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- You approach problems from a product perspective, thinking through how the user will interact with what you’re building.
- You have strong communication skills. You ask questions, let others know when you need help, and tell others what you need. You write things down so someone else on your team can do them.
- You’re a problem solver. You believe the best work results from finding the simplest solution to complex challenges. We see simplicity as the most significant expression of intelligence and responsibility.
- You see the big picture. You understand how the code you write interacts with systems and services internally and externally.