Principal Site Reliability Engineer (DevSecOps)

6 - 11 years

19 - 25 Lacs

Posted:15 hours ago| Platform: Naukri logo

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As a Principal Security SRE in this team, you will serve as a key technical authority, shaping the organization's security and reliability roadmap. You are expected to drive technical excellence, embedding security and resilience into every aspect of our production environment.

Key Leadership Expectations:

  • Strategic Initiative Driver: Lead organization-wide initiatives to enhance our security posture and overall SRE discipline, directly influencing how services are built and operated across all engineering teams.
  • DevSecOps Champion: Champion the DevSecOps transformation, specifically by driving the adoption and maturity of Security-as-Code and Policy-as-Code initiatives. This includes defining frameworks for automated compliance and governance.
  • Security & SRE Excellence: Identify systemic security and SRE process gaps, establish robust best practices, and introduce innovative solutions to maximize system reliability and minimize security risks at scale.
  • Technical Role Model: Act as a technical role model and mentor, using your deep expertise in cloud security and SRE principles to influence and guide engineering peers, elevating the collective technical skill of the entire organization.

You will work on:

  • Identifying and automating manual processes
  • Automate the remediation of security findings and compliance violations using Policy-as-Code framework
  • Continuously evolving our monitoring tools and platform
  • Promoting and applying best practices for building secure and reliable services across engineering
  • Developing and maintaining technical documentation, runbooks, and procedures
  • Be a technical SME for a team that designs and builds Okta's production infrastructure, focusing on security at scale in the cloud.
  • Define and enforce secure baseline configurations for all cloud and containerized environments, ensuring proactive risk mitigation against common threats.

You are an ideal candidate if you:

  • Are always willing to go the extra mile: see a problem, fix the problem.
  • Are passionate about encouraging the development of engineering peers and leading by example.
  • Have experience automating, securing, and running large-scale production IAM and containerized services in AWS (EC2, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, RDS), GCP (GKE, GCE) or other cloud providers.
  • Have deep knowledge of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, OS hardening, networking concepts, and IP protocols.
  • Have a deep understanding and familiarity with configuration management tools like Chef and Terraform.
  • Have expert-level abilities in operational tooling languages such as Ruby, Python, Go and shell, and use of source control.
  • Have experience with industry-standard security tools like Nessus, Qualys, OSQuery, Splunk, etc.
  • Have experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and secrets management
  • Lead technical design and architecture decisions, and align project members towards the same goal and standards.

Bonus points for:

  • Proven ability to lead complex Threat Modeling exercises across critical systems and translate findings into secure coding and deployment requirements.
  • Experience in implementing IAM solutions for GCP and AWS
  • In-depth knowledge of compliance standards and automating compliance controls as code

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Qualities:

  • 12 + years of experience architecting and running complex AWS or other cloud networking infrastructure resources
  • 6+ years of experience with Chef and Terraform
  • 3+ years of experience in kubernetes
  • Unflappable troubleshooting skills
  • Proven experience in collaborating across teams to deliver complex horizontal projects
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong Linux understanding and experience.
  • Strong security background and knowledge.
  • BS In computer science (or equivalent experience).

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