At Rapid7, we're building a security analytics platform to help customers easily find, manage and reduce risk. 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.
You are a problem solver, passionate about eliminating toil through development and automation. Processing billions of daily events in the cloud excites you. You are ready to partner with teams across a global organization to build a modern scalable infrastructure. You are a developer at heart, but possess a wide range of skills across networking, Linux sysadmin, configuration management, clustered datastores, cloud services and deployment technologies.
The Platform Delivery team is a high-profile group that supports all Rapid7 products through dev tooling and cloud operations. We work directly with developers to ensure high uptime of our SaaS products. We strive to maintain a DevOps culture, empowering development while promoting security and reliability.
Responsibilities
Optimize our SaaS platform for performance and cost effectiveness
Maintain, monitor, and scale production distributed services in AWS, clustered datastores such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and event streaming platforms like Kafka
Participate in sustainable on-call incident response followed by blameless postmortems
Automate infrastructure through Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes
Support strategic planning with designated practice team
Work closely with the following AWS services - EKS, EC2, RDS, EMR, VPC networking, S3, MSK, etc.
Building automation and tooling in one of our commonly using languages - Python, Ruby, Java, or Bash
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 operationalizing the Insight Platform, running inside the AWS cloud.
Requirements
AWS Experience (EC2, S3, VPCs, EKS, RDS specifically)
Networking and linux system knowledge
Positive attitude with strong communication skills
Proficiency in object oriented programming, ideally one of the following: Java, Ruby, or Python.
Working knowledge with one or more of: Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Ansible, Puppet