Senior DevOps Engineer

at  Rapid7

Belfast BT1, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom -

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Immediate05 May, 2025Not Specified05 Feb, 20255 year(s) or aboveCassandra,Bash,Elasticsearch,Ansible,Ruby,Kubernetes,Infrastructure,Communication Skills,Ec2,Java,Jenkins,Argo,Groovy,PythonNoNo
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Description:

At Rapid7, you’ll join a world class team of thinkers and problem solvers building a modern security platform. We’re seeking a highly motivated team member to help ensure our platform is secure, reliable and available for thousands of customers that rely on it every day.

The skills you’ll bring include:

  • 5+ years of experience scaling SaaS services and infrastructure
  • Goal-driven, positive attitude with strong communication skills
  • Proficient in AWS services, including EC2, RDS, EMR, VPC networking, S3, etc.
  • Comfortable with one or more of: Python, Ruby, Java, Groovy, Bash
  • Working knowledge with one or more of: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Podman
  • Familiar with Istio, Karpenter, Kong, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Jenkins, Argo, Spinnaker, Git
  • Linux systems experience
  • Passionate about developer experience

Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

  • Develop and maintain internal automation that improves the efficiency, reliability and security of microservice operations and deployments
  • Maintain and improve production facing infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Cassandra
  • Develop new ways to improve the security of customer data following the least access principle
  • Educate and mentor fellow engineers on internal tooling and AWS architecture
  • Help make Kubernetes the foundation of our microservice environment
  • Work closely with our product teams to help establish, build, and maintain standards and best-practices for operationalising the Insight Platform, running inside the AWS cloud
  • Participate in sustainable on-call incident response followed by blameless postmortems
  • Automate infrastructure through Terraform, Ansible, Podman and Kubernetes

The skills you’ll bring include:

  • 5+ years of experience scaling SaaS services and infrastructure
  • Goal-driven, positive attitude with strong communication skills
  • Proficient in AWS services, including EC2, RDS, EMR, VPC networking, S3, etc.
  • Comfortable with one or more of: Python, Ruby, Java, Groovy, Bash
  • Working knowledge with one or more of: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Podman
  • Familiar with Istio, Karpenter, Kong, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Jenkins, Argo, Spinnaker, Git
  • Linux systems experience
  • Passionate about developer experiences

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. Teams reflecting a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.
About Rapid7
Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD) helps organizations across the globe protect what matters most so innovation can thrive in an increasingly connected world. Our comprehensive technology, services, and community-focused research simplify the complex for security teams, helping them reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, be in 10 places at once, and shut down attacks. We’re on a mission to make security solutions easier to use and access so we can bring safety and resilience to more people.
With more than 10,000 customers across 140+ countries, Rapid7 is a leader in cybersecurity that has earned numerous industry accolades and recognition for our technology and culture.

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REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:5.0Max:10.0 year(s)

Information Technology/IT

IT Software - Network Administration / Security

Software Engineering

Graduate

Proficient

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Belfast BT1, United Kingdom