Sr. DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Shape the future of cybersecurity at Forescout. Every day cyberattacks threaten to disrupt hospitals, power grids, financial systems, and the infrastructure we all depend on. At Forescout, we build the defenses that keep civilization running smoothly in an increasingly connected world. For more than 25 years, Fortune 100 organizations, government agencies, and large enterprises have trusted Forescout as their foundation to manage cyber risk, ensure compliance, and mitigate threats. From power grids and healthcare systems to financial networks and transportation hubs, Forescout protects the critical infrastructure of our modern world.

(Only US Citizens will be considered for this position.)

(Hybrid role Tuesday through Thursday in our Plano office near Dallas.)

What You Will Do

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in scaling and securing our Azure-based SaaS platform. You will be responsible for owning and evolving our CI/CD infrastructure, driving SRE best practices, and contributing to our FedRAMP compliance initiatives. This is a senior-level position for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment, and is deeply familiar with modern DevOps in the Azure cloud ecosystem.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, secure, and scale our SaaS platform on Azure using services like AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and related services.
• Lead the development and optimization of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release engineering workflows using tools like Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
• Drive SRE principles across the organization, focusing on observability, incident response, availability, performance monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Contribute directly to our FedRAMP compliance readiness efforts, including secure configuration management, audit logging, documentation, and operational procedures.
• Provide Tier 2/3 operational support, including support during maintenance windows and participation in an on-call rotation during North American business hours.
• Support ongoing capacity planning, cost optimization, and scaling efforts for key infrastructure services.
• Maintain and improve production monitoring, alerting, and runbooks to ensure high reliability and rapid-incident response.
• Participate in security, availability, and disaster recovery planning.
• Document operational processes, architectural decisions, and runbooks in a structured, trackable system (e.g., Jira, Confluence).

What You Bring To Forescout

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
• 3+ years of experience with Azure Cloud and its native services (especially AKS, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Monitor, Key Vault, etc.).
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for microservices architectures and serverless environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm charts, and managing cloud-native workloads.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python).
• Deep experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, etc.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, SOC2, or other security/compliance frameworks (working experience on a FedRAMP-authorized environment is a strong plus).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and compliance teams.
• Proven ability to work effectively in remote teams across time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GitHub Actions/Workflows, and GitLab CI.
• Experience with distributed databases such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis.
• Exposure to security practices in SaaS environments (encryption, secret management, network hardening).
• Familiarity with change management processes.
• Relevant Azure certifications.
• Prior experience contributing to or leading FedRAMP or other regulated compliance initiatives.

What Forescout Offers You

• Competitive compensation and benefits – we cover 85% of employee and dependents' benefits premiums (US only), 401K match, generous PTO policy, and much more
• Collaborative and innovative environment – make an impact on worldwide security while working on the hottest technology
• Leadership that supports and encourages professional growth and development

Forescout Technologies is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value and embrace diversity, equality, inclusion, and collaboration at the core of our "One Team" philosophy. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.