Sailpoint
Senior DevOps Engineer
United States · Senior
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About the role
- Our platform runs on a mature, cloud-native, event-driven microservices architecture on AWS, with Kubernetes, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code at the core.
- Our platform is built on a combination of microservices, data pipelines, machine learning, and AI tooling, most of which relies on Kubernetes for compute.
- Engineers work closely with global peers with a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineers across teams on service mesh architecture, troubleshooting at scale, performance tuning, and capacity planning for mesh-heavy environments.
- Design, operate, and optimize production Kubernetes clusters at scale on AWS (EKS), including cluster architecture, upgrades, node management, networking, storage, and multi-tenant isolation patterns.
- Define and drive Kubernetes standards and best practices across teams, including workload design, resource management, security hardening (RBAC, Pod Security Standards, network policies), Helm/chart conventions, and deployment patterns.
- Design and scale infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing customer demand, data sovereignty requirements, and regional expansion.
- Develop and improve operational practices, runbooks, and platform engineering standards.
- Collaborate with development teams to bring new features and services into production safely and efficiently.
- Proactively meet information security and compliance standards (e.g., PCI DSS), including supporting SailPoint's PCI compliance initiative through secure platform design, controls implementation, and audit readiness.
- drive post-incident reviews and systemic fixes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience.
- 7+ years of experience in 24x7 production operations, supporting highly available SaaS or cloud service environments.
- 7+ years of experience with containerization, virtualization, and configuration management technologies.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production at scale.
- 4+ years of experience with Terraform (IaC), managing infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts and regions.
- 4+ years of experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, especially for Terraform, Kubernetes, and microservices.
- 4+ years of experience with scripting/programming languages (Python, Go, or similar) and strong shell scripting proficiency.
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and production troubleshooting.
- Experience with monitoring and logging stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch or equivalent).
Skills
- About SailPoint
- SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise.
- SailPoint is all-in on the AI revolution, and our engineers have access to the latest frontier models and agentic frameworks.
Compensation
- We estimate the base salary, for US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-max, USD):
- We estimate the base salary, for
- US-based employees, will be in this range from (min-max, USD):
- Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
Benefits
- As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission, along with potential eligibility for equity participation.
- Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
- Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
- Flexible vacation policy
- Parental support: Paid parental leave
- Ability to operate effectively in an agile, entrepreneurial environment with global stakeholders.
Company info
- Automate deployment, monitoring, incident response, and capacity management using GitOps and CI/CD best practices.
- Participate in and help improve the on-call rotation; drive post-incident reviews and systemic fixes.
- Strong interpersonal and teaming skills, with the ability to set and enforce process and influence engineers across teams and geographies.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating a service mesh at scale in production Kubernetes environments.
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