Junior DevOps Engineer

Junior DevOps Engineer

Madison, WI

Company Mission - Our mission is to help secure as many companies as possible, by using the best way of doing so, penetration testing. Sprocket Security prioritizes offensive security for enterprises, empowering them to build robust defense strategies based on individual business risk.

How - At Sprocket Security, we've built an expert-driven Continuous Penetration Testing platform that blends cutting-edge automated and manual testing methods.

Your Mission – As a Junior DevOps Engineer at Sprocket Security, your primary role is to help design, implement and maintain scalable and secure infrastructure environment in AWS. You will grow as a professional and contribute to DevOps practices and innovation within Sprocket Security. Sprocket has created an offensive security platform to support our continuous penetration testing mission. The primary goal of this position is to maintain, secure, and assist with deploying the infrastructure associated with this platform.

Responsibilities:

• Help design, implement and maintain scalable and secure infrastructure in AWS.
• Basic systems administration tasks in cloud and potentially on-prem environments, with responsibilities growing as skills improve.
• Basic administration of cloud environments, including IAM responsibilities, monitoring alerts, investigating/triaging issues, managing server hardening processes, and so on.
• Help manage and maintain CICD pipelines in Gitlab, ensuring full end-to-end deployments are successful, timely, and efficient.
• Help manage, maintain, and improve Infrastructure-as-Code environments using Terraform.
• Conduct research and apply out-of-the-box-thinking into new and novel ways to solve weird problems.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure logging, security controls, and system health.
• Administer Linux-based systems, addressing performance bottlenecks and ensuring system stability.
• Contribute to the standardization, documentation, and maintainability of our AWS infrastructure environment.
• Collaborate with software engineers to enhance the deployment process of company applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across the business, including Software Engineering, Service Delivery, and IT.
• Make a meaningful impact on our security posture by participating in security configurations.
• Respond to infrastructure-related incidents.
• Create and maintain documentation for system configurations and DevOps practices.

Qualifications:

Minimum:

• Experience with AWS.
• Familiarity with Terraform.
• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with administrating source control platforms.
• Linux System Administration experience.
• Basic programming experience in Python.
• Experience with Bash scripting.
• Strong familiarity with Git and source control practices.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with other DevOps frameworks such as Ansible, Packer, Docker and CloudFormation.
• Experience as an AWS administrator.
• Experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Involvement in security configurations.
• Experience participating in code reviews.
• Enjoys the innovation, thrills, and speed of a growing start-up.
• Previous experience in a small and agile Development organization.
• Cybersecurity experience.

Benefits:

• Unlimited and mandatory PTO for healthy work/life balance.
• Company matched 401k (immediate eligibility, no one should have to wait to start saving).
• 75% company contribution for health insurance for employees and 50% for dependants.
• 100% company contribution for dental and vision.
• Flexible working hours.
• Hardware and tools of your choice
• Support for your career development with paid training, conferences, certifications, etc.

Location: Currently residing or able to relocate to Madison, WI

Ready to Trailblaze the Cybersecurity Frontier? If you're passionate about cybersecurity and eager to make an impact in the industry, we want you on our team. Apply now at Sprocket Security and join the revolution of safeguarding businesses from cyber threats!