Job Overview:
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. Our team focuses on enabling the product teams to develop and run their microservices on secure and scalable infrastructure. We strive to provide a streamlined development experience to our fellow engineers. Additionally we work to maintain a secure and reliable product experience for our customers.
Requirements:
- 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
Responsibilities:
- 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
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law.
Rapid7 Austin, Texas, USA Office

401 Congress Ave, Austin, TX, United States, 78701
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