About Us
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at
www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
The SRE Engineer will play a key role in the Sophos development process by facilitating, managing, communicating, and automating tasks for the deployment and configuration of continuous feature builds for multiple development teams. By leveraging knowledge and expertise in the deployment of SaaS applications and microservices hosted in the cloud, the SRE engineer will streamline the process of quick and frequent automated builds and help elevate the Sophos development process to the next level of agility. As a member of the Sophos SRE team, you will work closely with software engineers, architects, product management and others to design and build the foundational toolset and capabilities that allow Sophos developers to quickly bring new features to market.
What You Will Do
Provide technical skillset to the SRE team by planning and designing SRE toolsets and automation.
Participate in architecture and security reviews for SRE Projects
Evangelize cloud technologies and CI/CD solutions for wider engineering teams
Focus on developing tools and processes for secure development practice.
Collaborate with multiple feature development teams to identify needs for building and deploying their applications.
Deploy and configure daily iterative builds of applications and containers into Tomcat server and Kubernetes clusters for multiple feature development teams. Deploy and configure MongoDB test databases with test data.
Design and implement automation for deployment and configuration tasks
Identify cloud infrastructure needs for deployment environments and manage costs.
Troubleshoot failed builds and deployments. Determine and fix environment and configuration issues. Analyze logs and communicate potential code issues to development teams.
Facilitate, manage and communicate information related to environments - their current state, deployed versions and availability to developers, QA engineers and team members.
Own and execute Github, Artifactory and Jenkins-based software configuration and release activities in central Git repositories and Jenkins builds, branching, tagging, building, releasing.
Support services and applications 24/7 by participating in an on-call rotation.
What You Will Bring
2-4 years with some of the following technologies JAVA, Groovy, Python, Docker and Kubernetes.
Strong knowledge with scripting languages, preferably Python and Groovy
Experience with build tools like Gradle, Maven, NPM
Experience supporting production grade systems including Linux administration, deployment, high availability & durability, practical logging & monitoring, and cost optimization in a public cloud, preferably AWS
Hands on experience with Terraform
Knowledge of AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, S3 is preferrable.
Kubernetes and container orchestration experience a big plus
Experience with Blue/Green deployments is preferred
Experience with CI/CD tools and automation methodologies, specifically Jenkins
Strong working knowledge of Docker and the container ecosystem
Excellent operational knowledge of Linux operating systems
Administration and automation skills with developer tools like Bitbucket, Artifactory
Some experience with CI/CD automation for DevSecOps tools like Sonar, Blackduck
