Axon
Senior Security Operations Engineer II
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 hours ago
Distributed SystemsAWSAzureKubernetesCI/CDLinuxSite Reliability EngineeringCybersecuritySOC OperationsIncident ResponseComplianceCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- We're explorers, pursuing society's most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software.
- Like our products, we work better together.
Responsibilities
- We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.
- Design, deploy, and operate PKI infrastructure supporting secure authentication, encryption, and certificate lifecycle management.
- Manage certificates, secrets, keys, and trust stores, including issuance, renewal, rotation, and revocation.
- Build, maintain, and secure Kubernetes clusters hosting PKI and secret management services.
- Collaborate with other teams to integrate PKI and secrets management into cloud-native applications and services.
- Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and disaster recovery procedures for PKI and Kubernetes environments.
- Build and operate secure, reliable, and scalable PKI and secrets management infrastructure.
- Design and implement PKI solutions supporting 24x7 production and enterprise environments.
- Manage certificates, secrets, encryption keys, and access controls across Kubernetes-based platforms.
- You'll solve complex technical problems, improve our systems through thoughtful automation, and work closely with cross-functional teams to support our services as they scale.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, SRE, or security engineering roles.
- Strong experience managing and securing Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads in production environments.
- Hands-on experience with PKI platforms, certificate lifecycle management, secrets management, and encryption technologies.
- Experience operating cloud-native security solutions such as AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, EJBCA, Smallstep, or Venafi.
- Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, distributed systems, and Kubernetes security best practices.
- Experience with automation, scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD pipelines for PKI and infrastructure operations.
- Familiarity with IAM and access management platforms such as Okta, Entra ID, Keycloak, or similar solutions.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting distributed infrastructure and security systems.
Skills
- Join Axon and be a Force for Good.
- Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful.
Compensation
- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
Benefits
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Mental Wellness support
- Learning & Development programs
Company info
- Your work will have a direct impact on uptime, efficiency, and the overall developer experience-contributing to our mission to deliver high-quality mission critical systems at speed.
- If you're excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways.
Equal opportunity
- This role is based out of our Scottsdale, AZ office and follows a hybrid schedule.
- We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation.
Visa & Work Authorization
- ardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status
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