Sr. DevOps Engineer

Forescout Technologies Inc. is a leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to protecting critical infrastructure from cyber threats. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in scaling and securing their Azure-based SaaS platform, focusing on CI/CD infrastructure and SRE best practices.

Responsibilities:

• 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)

Requirements:

• 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
• 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