Senior Security Operations Engineering

Senior Security Operations Engineer II - full‑time hybrid based in Boston, Massachusetts.

We’re on a mission to Protect Life with devices and cloud software. This role ensures reliability, performance, and scalability of our security infrastructure.

Manage certificates, secrets, keys, and trust stores, including issuance, renewal, rotation, and revocation.

Automate PKI and secret management workflows using Infrastructure‑as‑Code, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes‑native tooling.

Monitor and troubleshoot PKI, certificate, secret, and Kubernetes infrastructure issues, performing root cause analysis and remediation.

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.

Ensure PKI and Kubernetes platforms meet security, reliability, and compliance requirements.

Design and implement PKI solutions supporting 24x7 production and enterprise environments.

Manage certificates, secrets, encryption keys, and access controls across Kubernetes‑based platforms.

Automate certificate lifecycle, secret rotation, and infrastructure operations using CI/CD and Infrastructure‑as‑Code.

Collaborate with SRE, platform, and security teams to integrate PKI and secrets management into cloud‑native services.

Document PKI architecture, operational procedures, and security best practices.

7+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, SRE, or security engineering roles.

Strong experience managing and securing Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads in production.

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.

Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, operations, and security teams.

Passion for building secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure platforms.

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