Senior SRE

Blackpoint Cyber is the leading provider of world-class cybersecurity threat hunting, detection and remediation technology. Founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) cyber operations experts who applied their learnings to bring national security-grade technology solutions to commercial customers around the world, Blackpoint Cyber is in hyper-growth mode,  fueled by a recent $190m series C round. 

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a Senior SRE Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our Cloud, On-Premise infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on automation, scalability, and performance.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability and efficiency of our systems while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Management & Automation: Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable infrastructure utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies, with primary focus on Terraform and Terragrunt for automated cloud resource provisioning and orchestration.

• Cloud Platform Administration: Oversee and optimize cloud environments, with a specialized focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS), ensuring adherence to cost optimization strategies, security best practices, and high-availability standards.

• Container Orchestration & Continuous Delivery: Manage and optimize Kubernetes cluster environments utilizing Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, and Kustomize to support continuous delivery pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Data Streaming Platform Operations: Administer and scale data streaming infrastructure using Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka to support enterprise-level data processing requirements.

• Caching & Real-Time Data Solutions: Deploy, configure, and maintain Redis instances to facilitate caching mechanisms and real-time data processing capabilities.

• Observability & Incident Management: Implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks utilizing Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, and OpsGenie/PagerDuty to ensure optimal system reliability and performance.

• Feature Management & Release Engineering: Facilitate controlled feature deployments and progressive rollouts through LaunchDarkly/PostHog platform integration and management.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with software development teams to ensure seamless integration of new services, applications, and features into existing infrastructure ecosystems.

• Technical Issue Resolution: Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues, implementing solutions that maintain high performance standards and maximize system uptime.

• Process Optimization & Enhancement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives for automation tools, operational processes, and engineering methodologies to enhance system scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

• Technical Innovation & Knowledge Management: Maintain current knowledge of emerging Site Reliability Engineering trends, tools, and technologies, ensuring organizational adoption of relevant industry advancements and best practices.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Professional Experience: Minimum of eight (8) years of demonstrated experience in a Senior Site Reliability Engineer role or equivalent position, with substantial emphasis on cloud infrastructure management and automation technologies.

• Infrastructure as Code Proficiency: Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies, specifically utilizing Terraform and Terragrunt for enterprise-scale deployments.

• Cloud Architecture Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform, including demonstrated proficiency in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures aligned with industry best practices.

• Distributed Streaming Systems: Extensive hands-on experience architecting and managing distributed data streaming solutions utilizing Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka platforms.

• Data Storage & Caching Technologies: Proven experience implementing and managing Redis for high-performance caching solutions and Amazon RDS for relational database management.

• Search & Analytics Platforms: Proven experience with enterprise search and analytics solutions, including OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, and ChaosSearch platforms.

• Observability & Monitoring Systems: Proficiency in designing and implementing comprehensive monitoring and alerting infrastructures utilizing Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, and OpsGenie/PagerDuty.

• Feature Management Platforms: Practical experience implementing and managing feature flag systems using LaunchDarkly/PostHog for controlled release management.

• Container Orchestration Expertise: Extensive experience administering production-grade Kubernetes clusters, including package management via Helm, continuous deployment using ArgoCD, and service mesh implementation with Istio.

• Configuration Management: Working knowledge of Kustomize for Kubernetes resource configuration and customization.

• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex systems in production.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in agile environments.

Nice to Have:

• Multi-Cloud Platform Experience: Demonstrated experience architecting and managing infrastructure across multiple cloud service providers, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure.

• Security & Compliance Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of security frameworks, compliance standards, and best practices applicable to cloud-native and containerized infrastructure environments.

• Serverless & CI/CD Proficiency: Working knowledge of serverless computing architectures and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, including practical experience with Jenkins and GitHub Actions platforms.

• Software Development Capabilities: Technical proficiency in software development using Node.js, Python, and/or Go programming languages.

Blackpoint Cyber welcomes and encourages applications from qualified individuals of all races,  colors, religions, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital  status, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to equality of opportunity in all  aspects of employment.  For eligible employees in the US, Blackpoint offers competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans, a robust 401k plan, Discretionary Time Off, and other minor perks.