As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will manage complex systems, ensure high availability, monitor logs, maintain security policies, and automate deployments using AWS or Azure and containerization tools.
About Prove (acquired UnifyID)
Prove is the modern platform for continuous identity authentication and is used by over 1,000 enterprises and 500 financial institutions, including 9 of the top 10 U.S. banks. Prove’s cloud solutions, and mobile intelligence-driven APIs can be easily orchestrated to increase Approve Rates to over 90%, enabling companies to authenticate customer identities accurately, effortlessly, and privately while mitigating fraud. Prove’s solutions are available in 195 countries.
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About the Role
For UnifyID, a DevOps engineer is comfortable with setting up complex systems, maintaining high availability, monitoring and analyzing logs, ensuring firewall and security groups are tightly set, enforcing access control policies, and documenting and automating tasks for easier deployments in the future, Similar roles we would accept are:
* System administrator (with orchestration experience)
* Site-reliability engineer
You should have a general idea and interest on how complex computer systems are orchestrated on AWS and Azure Cloud. A subset of Docker, Docker-compose, Docker-swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos experience required. Power-user experience with Linux or BSD flavors is a big plus.
SUPERPOWERS
- Python, Bash
- Deploying Docker containers on AWS or Azure
- Microservice-based architectures
- NGINX, Bind, Kerberos, NFS, TLS, HTTPS
- The ability to argue fluently about security and scalability
Join us!
As we continue to scale our company, we are looking for people who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly, and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smarts but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.
Prove has big plans; we’re excited and optimistic about the future. If this sounds like a career for you – come check us out.
This team is located in the heart of Silicon Valley in downtown Redwood City and has unparalleled access to deep entrepreneurial expertise, high-caliber academic research institutions, and top-tier VC resources.
Finally, it is important that you be authentic and be yourself.
Prove is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or other personal characteristics.
UnifyID Redwood, California, USA Office
603 Jefferson Ave, , Redwood, California , United States, 94063
UnifyID San Francisco, California, USA Office
425 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA , United States, 94107
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