DevOps Engineer

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About Picus

Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing, and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort.

The Picus Security Validation Platform easily reaches across on-prem environments, hybrid clouds and endpoints coupled with Numi AI to provide exposure validation. 

The pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus delivers award-winning threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing, offering a 95% recommendation in Gartner Peer Review.

About The Role

If you’re a results-driven person with an entrepreneurial mindset, who takes the initiative and thrives in a dynamic environment, then this is a great opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-growing cyber security company. You will be able to have a direct impact on the future of our business by helping to influence global adoption of our award-winning Complete Security Control Validation platform.

As DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for automation, implementation, administration and maintenance of CI/CD infrastructure, our databases, cloud-based and on-prem servers/instances including provisioning, backups and restores, upgrades and monitoring. We need a DevOps Engineer with great energy, willingness to learn and succeed and a desire to create a top cyber security product in an agile environment.

• Manage and configure the software on AWS in a secure and scalable format 
• Develop CI/CD pipelines on Github/GitLab
• Manage user access to the servers and update as needed
• Manage AWS infrastructure as IaC
• Manage and develop on-prem product infrastructure
• Configure and deploy database servers, application servers and other virtual servers on the cloud
• Manage and develop tools that assist development teams in achieving hundreds of weekly smooth deployments
• Develop internal platform to monitor all company level engineering metrics
• Participate in an on-call rotation schedules
• Implement monitoring systems to ensure health and performance of workloads

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar field
• Experience on distributed systems in a Linux-based environment
• Experience with AWS and/or other public cloud computing platforms
• Strong automation mindset to continuously improve the development and production environment
• Familiarity with Git
• Experience in tools such as Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform
• Experience with at least one programming/scripting languages
• Experience on site reliability practices and system monitoring
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and excellent problem solving abilities
• Humble, friendly, adaptive, result oriented personality

Working at Picus

Fascinating work - a chance to shape and lead an exciting, fast-growing cyber security segment. Security Validation is a concept that helps organizations evaluate their security posture in a continuous, automated, and repeatable way. This approach allows for the identification of imminent threats, provides recommended actions, and produces valuable metrics about cyber-risk levels.

Unlimited opportunity! We are growing. At Picus, you'll be provided with as much responsibility as you can handle - new career development opportunities constantly arise given our rate of growth.

Global exposure - Get a lot of experience working not only in a fast-growing startup but also interact with customers all around the world.

Be part of a global remote team who is taking on Exposure Validation and a growing market segment.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, national origin, religious belief, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by International law.  Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete reference and identity checks in line with local labor laws and as per the Company’s employment policy.