Senior Staff DevOps Engineer

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

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💵 $142.5k - $240.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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SailPoint

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

SailPoint is a leader in identity security solutions, providing an intelligent and autonomous platform designed to meet the evolving security needs of modern enterprises. Their products, including IdentityIQ and Identity Security Cloud, offer a unified and comprehensive approach to managing and securing enterprise identities. SailPoint helps organizations mitigate cyber risks, improve IT efficiency, and maintain compliance through advanced capabilities such as cloud infrastructure entitlement management, non-employee risk management, and data access security. By integrating AI and machine learning, SailPoint enables organizations to streamline identity processes, enhance security measures, and accelerate onboarding. They serve multiple industries, including education, financial services, government, and healthcare, by offering tailored identity governance and administration solutions.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate SailPoint’s global Identity Security Cloud infrastructure on AWS • Lead the full lifecycle of service mesh implementation across hundreds of microservices and production EKS clusters • Establish organization-wide service mesh standards, governance, onboarding runbooks, sidecar injection policies, traffic policy templates, and failure-mode playbooks • Mentor and upskill engineers on service mesh architecture, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity planning • Design, operate, and optimize production Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, including architecture, upgrades, node management, networking, storage, and multi-tenant isolation • Define and drive Kubernetes standards and best practices across teams • Design and scale infrastructure for customer demand, data sovereignty requirements, and regional expansion • Automate deployment, monitoring, incident response, and capacity management using GitOps and CI/CD • Develop and improve operational practices, runbooks, and platform engineering standards • Collaborate with development teams to bring new features and services into production safely • Support SailPoint’s PCI compliance initiative through secure platform design, controls implementation, and audit readiness • Participate in and improve the global follow-the-sun on-call rotation • Drive post-incident reviews and systemic fixes • Influence architecture direction, mentor engineers, and drive operational excellence without people management

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience • 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating a service mesh at scale in production Kubernetes environments • 10+ years of experience in 24x7 production operations supporting highly available SaaS or cloud service environments • 10+ years of experience with containerization, virtualization, and configuration management technologies • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production at scale • 5+ years of experience with Terraform, managing infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts and regions • 5+ years of experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, especially for Terraform, Kubernetes, and microservices • 5+ years of experience with scripting/programming languages such as Python or Go • Strong shell scripting proficiency • Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and production troubleshooting • Demonstrated experience scaling a service mesh across a large microservices fleet, including phased adoption strategy, sidecar resource management, control plane scaling, and performance tuning • Experience with monitoring and logging stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenSearch or equivalent • Prior experience as a technical lead or Staff+ individual contributor in a global engineering organization • Strong interpersonal and teaming skills, with ability to set and enforce process and influence engineers across teams and geographies • Ability to operate effectively in an agile, entrepreneurial environment with global stakeholders • Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States or Canada • Availability for collaboration with global teams across US, EMEA, and APAC time zones • Participation in an on-call rotation is required • Preferred: multi-cluster or multi-region service mesh federation experience in production • Preferred: familiarity with PCI DSS and FedRAMP-adjacent practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Short-term and long-term disability coverage • Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) • Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children • Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care • Limited purpose flexible spending account • 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching • Flexible vacation policy • 8 paid holidays annually • Sick leave • Paid parental leave • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors • Voluntary Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options • Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution • May be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or role-specific commission • Potential eligibility for equity participation • Approximately 10% travel flexibility