Coalfire · 23 hours ago
Junior Site Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Entry Level
$95K/yr - $110K/yr
2+ years expCoalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving clients’ toughest cybersecurity challenges. As a Junior Site Reliability Engineer, you will support the Managed Services team by operating cloud technologies and ensuring the reliability and scalability of SaaS products for major enterprises and government agencies.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
Become a member of a highly collaborative engineering team offering a unique blend of Cloud Infrastructure Administration, Site Reliability Engineering, Security Operations, and Vulnerability Management across multiple clients
Coordinate with client product teams, engineering team members, and other stakeholders to monitor and maintain a secure and resilient cloud-hosted infrastructure to established SLAs in both production and non-production environments
Innovate and implement using automated orchestration and configuration management techniques. Understand the design, deployment, and management of secure and compliant enterprise servers, network infrastructure, boundary protection, and cloud architectures using Infrastructure-as-Code
Create, maintain, and peer review automated orchestration and configuration management codebases, as well as Infrastructure-as-Code codebases. Maintain IaC tooling and versioning within Client environments
Implement and upgrade client environments with CI/CD infrastructure code and provide internal feedback to development teams for environment requirements and necessary alterations
Work across AWS, Azure and GCP, understanding and utilizing their unique native services in client environments
Configure, tune, and troubleshoot cloud-based tools, manage cost, security, and compliance for the Client’s environments
Monitor and resolve site stability and performance issues related to functionality and availability
Work closely with client DevOps and product teams to provide 24x7x365 support to environments through Client ticketing systems
Support definition, testing, and validation of incident response and disaster recovery documentation and exercises
Participate in on-call rotations as needed to support Client critical events, and operational needs that may lay outside of business hours
Support testing and data reviews to collect and report on the effectiveness of current security and operational measures, in addition to remediating deviations from current security and operational measures
Maintain detailed diagrams representative of the Client’s cloud architecture
Maintain, optimize, and peer review standard operating procedures, operational runbooks, technical documents, and troubleshooting guidelines
Qualification
Required
BS or above in related Information Technology field or equivalent combination of education and experience
2+ years experience in 24x7x365 production operations
Fundamental understanding of networking and networking troubleshooting
2+ years experience installing, managing, and troubleshooting Linux and/or Windows Server operating systems in a production environment
2+ years experience supporting cloud operations and automation in AWS, Azure or GCP (and aligned certifications)
2+ years experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration/automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible
Experience with IaaS platform capabilities and services (cloud certifications expected)
Experience within ticketing tool solutions such as Jira and ServiceNow
Experience using environmental analytics tools such as Splunk and Elastic Stack for querying, monitoring and alerting
Experience in at least one primary scripting language (Bash, Python, PowerShell)
Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills in a dynamic environment
Effective documentation skills, to include technical diagrams and written descriptions
Ability to work as part of a team with professional attitude and demeanor
Preferred
Previous experience in a consulting role within dynamic, and fast-paced environments
Previous experience supporting a 24x7x365 highly available environment for a SaaS vendor
Experience supporting security and/or infrastructure incident handling and investigation, and/or system scenario re-creation
Experience working within container orchestration solutions such as Kubernetes, Docker, EKS and/or ECS
Experience working within an automated CI/CD pipeline for release development, testing, remediation, and deployment
Cloud-based networking experience (Palo Alto, Cisco ASAv, etc.…)
Familiarity with frameworks such as FedRAMP, FISMA, SOC, ISO, HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI, etc
Familiarity with configuration baseline standards such as CIS Benchmarks & DISA STIG
Knowledge of encryption technologies (SSL, encryption, PKI)
Experience with diagramming (Visio, Lucid Chart, etc.)
Application development experience for cloud-based systems
Benefits
Paid parental leave
Flexible time off
Certification and training reimbursement
Digital mental health and wellbeing support membership
Comprehensive insurance options
Company
Coalfire
Coalfire is the premier Cybersecurity and Compliance Services leader for the tech, healthcare, and finance industries.
Founded in 2001Chicago, Illinois, US
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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Late StageLeadership Team
Tom McAndrew
CEO
Merri Chandler
Chief Financial Officer
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