DevOps Engineer
- Sophos
- 2 - 5 years
- Ahmedabad
- 9 days ago
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Job Description
About Us Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powe'red by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
As a DevOps Engineer at Sophos, you will be instrumental in evolving our development lifecycle. You will facilitate, automate, and scale the deployment, configuration, and monitoring of our large-scale cloud-native SaaS and on-premises applications.
By leveraging your expertise in AWS and Kubernetes , you will streamline our CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, frequent, and reliable automated builds. Beyond technical implementation, you will act as a mentor teaching and assisting engineering teams to build, manage, and monitor high-performance cloud applications with increased agility.
What you will do
- Platform Management: Take ownership of the management and ongoing maintenance of our Kubernetes platforms.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with multiple development squads to identify requirements for building and deploying complex applications.
- AWS Automation: Design and implement the automated deployment and configuration of cloud-application workloads within AWS.
- Observability: Develop, advise on, and troubleshoot monitoring and management frameworks for cloud-resident workloads.
- Consultancy: Assist engineering teams in architecting manageable, scalable, and highly observable cloud-native applications.
- Incident Resolution: Troubleshoot and resolve environment and configuration issues. Analyse logs and monitoring data to proactively communicate potential risks to stakeholders.
- Environment Orchestration: Manage and communicate the state, versioning, and availability of various environments to Developers, QA, and wider team members.
- Tooling Excellence: Maintain and optimise shared development tools for branching, tagging, building, releasing, and reporting.
- Willingness to provide on-call support on weekend (once in a month)
What you will bring
Essential:
- Containerisation: Practical experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, or Rancher.
- Technical Background: Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar languages to automate repetitive tasks.
- Linux Mastery: Proficiency with Linux distributions (eg, Ubuntu, CentOS).
- CI/CD: A deep understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery principles.
- AWS Expertise: A broad knowledge of AWS services, specifically CloudFormation, EC2, ECS, and EKS.
- Version Control: Expert use of Git and GitHub within a distributed team environment.
- Monitoring & Alerting: Strong understanding of monitoring and alerting using tools like PagerDuty, Zabbix, and LogicMonitor for system health visibility, alerting, and incident response.
Desirable
- Certification : CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps Administration.
- Ansible experience
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Soft Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions both internally and externally.
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At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they dont check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Dont let a checklist hold you back we encourage you to apply.
Whats Great About Sophos
Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. Howe'ver, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
Our people we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
we're proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we're committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
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Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: DevOpsRole: DevOps EngineerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
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