Sr. DevOps Engineer
About this role
Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: USA (Remote or Regional Office)
Reports To: SVP of Engineering
About Cyware
Cyware delivers an innovative approach to cybersecurity that unifies threat intelligence, automation, threat response, and vulnerability management with data insights gleaned from assets, users, malware, attackers, and vulnerabilities. Cyware’s Cyber Fusion platform integrates SOAR and TIP technology, enabling collaboration across siloed security teams. Cyware is widely deployed by enterprises, government agencies, and MSSPs, and is the leading threat intelligence sharing platform for global ISACs and CERTs.
Why We’re Hiring
Cyware is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to build, secure, and operate the infrastructure supporting product environments in AWS and AWS GovCloud. This role owns CI/CD, deployment, and operational reliability across commercial and government environments, ensuring releases meet high standards of security, availability, and compliance across cloud boundaries, including FedRAMP High, GovRAMP Moderate, and IL5 environments.
About You
- You are driven, inquisitive, proactive, and energetic.
- You have a growth mindset and are committed to delivering results.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- You are passionate about cloud engineering, DevOps, automation, security, reliability, and scalable systems.
Come join an exciting cybersecurity product startup that has closed its Series C funding round!
What You’ll Do
- Work closely with development teams to integrate projects into production AWS and AWS GovCloud environments and ensure ongoing support.
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent; support Helm chart packaging and ArgoCD/GitOps deployment into Kubernetes.
- Operate and harden infrastructure within compliance-heavy authorization boundaries such as FedRAMP High, GovRAMP Moderate, and IL5, maintaining continuous compliance across releases.
- Own environment segmentation, secrets management, and access controls consistent with NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP control families.
- Manage Kubernetes workloads, Helm chart versioning, and release promotion across development, staging, commercial, and GovCloud production environments.
- Build reliable, scalable infrastructure services in AWS and support infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deployments.
- Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK for repeatable, auditable provisioning.
- Support database deployment and schema migration using Postgres, Flyway, or equivalent tooling tied to release cycles.
- Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational automation to meet government-grade availability and incident-response requirements.
- Partner with Security/GRC to prepare and maintain evidence for FedRAMP/GovRAMP continuous monitoring, POA&Ms, annual assessments, and audit cycles.
- Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for GovCloud-hosted environments, with documentation meeting government audit standards.
- Gain deep application-level knowledge of systems and contribute to their overall design; troubleshoot application, deployment, and operations issues.
- Build engineering automation and productivity tools to streamline and scale production applications while minimizing manual interaction.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Solution Architecture, and Security/GRC to keep commercial and government environments aligned with the product roadmap without compliance drift.
- Be a DevOps champion by building security, reliability, scalability, and best practices into the development lifecycle.
Who You Are
- US Citizenship is a requirement of this position in accordance with 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(2)(C).
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps/Platform/Site Reliability Engineering, with 2+ years operating workloads in AWS GovCloud.
- Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining infrastructure under FedRAMP High or Moderate, GovRAMP/StateRAMP, or DoD IL5 authorization frameworks.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance; active or eligible for a federal security clearance.
- Working knowledge of NIST 800-53 controls and how they translate into infrastructure and pipeline design.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps (ArgoCD or equivalent).
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent cloud services.
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline engineering using Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or equivalent.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools including Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
- Experience with configuration-management/automation tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Rundeck, or equivalent.
- Experience with queuing systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, or equivalent.
- Experience with relational database deployment/migration tooling such as Postgres and Flyway, or equivalent.
- Experience supporting continuous monitoring, POA&M remediation, assessment, and audit cycles.
- Basic knowledge of networking concepts such as subnets and environment segmentation.
- Experience with containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
- Ability to create infrastructure services for both cloud and on-premise deployments.
- Exposure to Linux, EC2 security, AWS CLI, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SSH, Docker, Git, Jenkins, CircleCI, Nagios, JMeter, and BlazeMeter.
- Experience with startup environments and lean, collaborative engineering teams.
- Knowledge of MongoDB, Python/Django, data structures, and algorithms is an added advantage.
Preferred
- Prior experience at a cybersecurity or SaaS vendor maintaining a FedRAMP-authorized environment through initial ATO and ongoing ConMon.
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Professional.
- Experience with container security scanning and software supply-chain security, including SBOM and image signing, in a government context.
- Familiarity with SOAR/TIP or broader cybersecurity product environments.
We're a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately. If this all sounds like a good fit for you, why not join us?
Why You’ll Love Working at Cyware
We foster an exciting and challenging start-up culture.
- We’re not just employees. We’re people. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including time off, paid holidays, retirement plans, insurance coverage and much more.
- We’ll invest in your career. Our company is growing quickly and we will give you the opportunity to do the same. You will have access to a number of professional development opportunities so that you can keep up with the company’s evolving needs.
- We offer competitive compensation packages. We deeply value the talent our team brings to the table and believe that fair and equitable total compensation packages are part of our commitment to everyone who works here.
We value diversity of people, culture, and ideas.
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EEO Statement: Cyware is dedicated to hiring a diverse workplace that celebrates an inclusive culture and a sense of belonging. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran status, genetic information or disability.
