Staff DevOps Engineer

Since 2004, Mandiant has been a trusted partner to security-conscious organizations. Effective security is based on the right combination of expertise, intelligence, and adaptive technology, and the Mandiant Advantage SaaS platform scales decades of frontline experience and industry-leading threat intelligence to deliver a range of dynamic cyber defense solutions. Mandiant’s approach helps organizations develop more effective and efficient cyber security programs and instills confidence in their readiness to defend against and respond to cyber threats.

Design and implement the services and orchestration behind a rapidly growing platform within the Mandiant Advantage product. You will be a critical subject matter expert counselling core engineering staff on best practices for securing, scaling, releasing, and monitoring applications in a Production environment, along with designing implementations of supporting infrastructure. Our team is action biased and we empower our teammates to design tactical plans that support the team’s strategic objectives.

What You Will Do:

• Design, write, and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Mandiant’s cloud services.
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for distributed systems.
• Collaborate with a world-class engineering team to propose features that solve recurring patterns of customer complaints.
• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.
• Participate, collaborate, and provide guidance in retrospectives.
• Find scalability bottlenecks and areas for performance improvements.
• Work as a strong team player with a high degree of flexibility.
• Demonstrate a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
• Manage capacity, build Security into every layer and reduce cost.
• Implement secure Networking, key management, user management, access management, process management, image management.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system reliability.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience in Cloud Software Engineering, Cloud Site Reliability Engineering, & Cloud Operations.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (or similar e.g., Google Cloud Services, Microsoft Azure).
• Experience designing applications with the use of cloud native technologies (e.g., S3, Lambda, Redshift).
• Experience developing, maintaining, observing, and operating custom applications using Cloud-based tools.
• Experience with different several different virtualization technologies and container technologies.
• Experience developing applications and/or scripts in at least two different programming languages.
• Experience using configuration management frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining large distributed stateful workloads (e.g., Kafka, Elastic Search, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with continuous integration and delivery tools (e.g, Jenkins, Drone, Circle, Github Actions, Argo, Spinnaker).

Additional Qualifications:

• Familiarity with application observability principles (logging, tracing, metrics, telemetry).
• Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Expertise with Linux operating system internals (e.g., networking, file systems, performance monitoring, security).
• Basic understanding of common software engineering planning and management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Trello, Github, Gitlab).
• Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design.
• Experience with Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform.

At Mandiant we are committed to our #OneTeam approach combining diversity, collaboration, and excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

Minimum Salary: $120,000. Final salary will be determined commensurately with cost of living, experience level, and/or any other legally permissible considerations. 

Incentive Compensation: Eligibility for annual bonus subject to individual and company performance; eligibility for award of Restricted Stock Units subject to eligibility requirements, approval from Mandiant’s Compensation Committee, and vesting terms  

Benefits: Employer subsidized benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Insurance. Subject to eligibility requirements, Mandiant also offers the ability to participate in 401(k), Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, Dependent Care Spending Accounts, and Employee Stock Purchase Program. Mandiant also provides Paid Time Off, Flexible Paid Sick Time, and Paid Holidays.  

*Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20)