Security Operations Lead

OpenVPN Inc, one of the world's most trusted VPN providers is seeking a Security Operations Lead. If you want to be a part of a dynamic, creative team that supports one another, thrives on freedom and flexibility, and builds products that make the online world a more secure place, come join us!

This position involves:

• Working with DevOps to define and deploy information security technologies and controls across dev, test, and production environments to help mature the information security program

• Testing, maintaining, and operating information security controls and information security technologies

• Working closely with the Head of Information Security to prioritize and execute information security strategy and achieve information security certifications

• Create and manage ticket workflows from inception to completion

• Utilize data to improve our monitoring and alerting thresholds and reduce overall noise

• Remove blockers for the work that my team has prioritized

• Collaborating with diverse DevOps teams working in different time zones

• Participating in infrastructure projects that involve cross-team collaboration

• Leading infrastructure migration/improvement initiatives

• Translate non-technical information security requirements into technical implementation plans

• Track and report on implementation progress

The candidate will:

• Be part of the Security Department, but will also work directly with OpenVPN DevOps teams

• Define and manage internal DevOps deployments of Information Security projects, workloads, and processes

• Assist with workload migrations to Kubernetes

• Automate processes with configuration management tools

• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline initiatives

• Evaluate, recommend, and implement new technologies that are relevant to improving the OpenVPN infrastructure

• Work with monitoring tools to set up or improve services monitoring and alerts

• Perform infrastructure security evaluations and improvements to ensure security standards are met

• Support, maintain, and improve systems documentation, policies, and procedures

Our philosophy is that we are a small, closely-knit team, and we care deeply about you:

• Competitive pay rates

• Fully remote work environments

• Generous time off opportunities

• Team trips and special events

• A family-like work atmospher

Requirements

• Experience building and defining DevOps orchestration and automation technologies including Kubernetes, Puppet, Ansible, and Docker

• Extensive experience in Linux server operating systems

• Strong experience in AWS services

• Working knowledge of technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS ECS, and EKS

• Strong operational experience with one of the scripting languages such as Shell, Perl, Python

• Experience in configuration management tools such as Puppet and Ansible

• Experience in infrastructure as code such as Terraform

• Experience working with ELK stack

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana

• Strong networking and troubleshooting skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

DESIRED SKILLS

• Experience working with large DevOps teams distributed across the world

• Experience with key/value stores such as Consul, Vault

• Experience in Kubernetes auto-scaling

• Familiarity with Identity/Auth solutions such as Free IPA

• Experience in PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases

• Project management skills and/or PMP certification

• Atlassian Suite familiarity

• Experience deploying security controls required for frameworks such as SOC2.

• Involvement with the Information Security community

• Experience with horizontally scaled databases (CitusData, TimescaleDB)