The stakes for creating a safer digital world are greater than ever. At Rapid7 we believe it s our responsibility to show up every day and give our best for our customers and the entire security community. Our global engineering teams are at the centre of this mission and are dedicated to building a complete suite of industry-leading products which provide a cohesive platform for our customers. Our range of solutions spans vulnerability management, detection, automation, cloud security, and penetration testing; in order to build these products our teams work with an array of technologies.
Join our engineering team to help us build and innovate great products on our Insight platform using the latest technologies to make the world a safer digital space.
About the Role
The Principal Platform Operations Engineer is a part of our Product and Engineering team who are at the forefront of ensuring reliability, scalability and availability across our products so that our customers are safe from attacks and breaches. In this role you will be focussed ensuring our products are delivering a secure, available, reliable and scalable experience. You will be working on a high impact and cross-functional team, creating end-to-end security solutions that drive customer success.You will have the opportunity to further enhance your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced Engineers, whilst mentoring others.
In this role, you will:
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Collaborate with multiple operations/SRE and development teams and other key stakeholders to identify potential risks to availability/reliability .
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Establish patterns and standards around testing and operations to improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
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Design and establish methods for how teams should execute comprehensive test plans to identify software defects across functional, performance, usability, and regression testing areas
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Be involved in the creation, design and planning of upcoming testing strategies, operational improvements and decisions around tooling and frameworks relating to SRE/Operations
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Regularly monitor our applications/infrastructure and identify opportunities for improving efficiencies or MTTR
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Deeply understand our products and make high impact decisions to support our customers
The skills you ll bring include:
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A minimum of 10 years experience in software development using java, python, go, terraform, ansible, spinnaker, jenkins or other equivalent programming languages/frameworks
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Experience with vulnerability or code quality frameworks such as snyk or sonarqube
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A minimum of 2 years with testing frameworks as Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, Playwright
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A minimum of 2 years of working with observability tooling such as datadog or grafana
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Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team
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The attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment
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Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions
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Strong creative problem solving skills
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Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally and strong attention to detail
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Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers
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Demonstrable experience of instigating continuous delivery and continuous integration patterns
We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That s because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don t be shy - apply today. About Rapid7
At Rapid7, we are on a mission to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by embracing tenacity, passion, and collaboration to challenge what s possible and drive extraordinary impact.
Here, we re building a dynamic workplace where everyone can have the career experience of a lifetime. We challenge ourselves to grow to our full potential. We learn from our missteps and celebrate our victories. We come to work every day to push boundaries in cybersecurity and keep our 10,000 global customers ahead of whatever s next.
Join us and bring your unique experiences and perspectives to tackle some of the world s biggest security challenges.
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Security and Compliance
Rapid7 is committed to keeping customers secure. As a first line of defense, all employees are expected to uphold the highest standards of security and privacy, ensuring the protection of sensitive information and compliance with relevant regulations.