DevOps Team Leader

About the Position

Checkmarx is the leader in application security and ensures that enterprises worldwide can secure their application development from code to cloud. We are seeking a passionate DevOps Team Lead to lead a team of engineers in supporting feature development and maintaining our cloud-native application deployment in AWS/Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Managed and grew a team of DevOps engineers
• Partner closely with development teams to support feature development and provide DevOps expertise
• Provide platform guidance and enablement across the organization
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase the efficiency of the DevOps team
• Provide technical leadership to the DevOps team, including mentoring and coaching
• Work closely with the engineering teams to define infrastructure needs and provide them with DevOps support and training
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools using Python and other scripting languages
• Research and integrate new technologies into our stack
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Manage, monitor, scale, and troubleshoot a distributed highly scalable, highly available, customer-facing software stack
• Mentor and coach others in the cloud and DevOps tools and practices

Requirements

Required qualifications:

• Experience with managing, mentoring, and developing a team
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or similar roles
• Strong coding and scripting skills
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of AWS Cloud services
• Experience in infrastructure troubleshooting practices using observability tools
• Competent experience with building automation tools such as IaC, Jenkins, CircleCI, jFrog, Terraform, and similar
• Vast experience with Kubernetes deployments, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Team player, innovative and creative, able to see the "big picture" and take part in shaping the product

Desired qualifications:

• Experience developing internal tools and automation solutions
• Familiarity with additional programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash)
• Experience with cost optimization and budgeting in cloud infrastructure
• Strong verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to participate in technical discussions confidently and effectively
• Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCD

We Offer

Checkmarx offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, competitive compensation, great work-life balance, as well as great benefits and perks throughout the year. Checkmarx is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.

About the Company

Checkmarx is the leader in application security and ensures that enterprises worldwide can secure their application development from code to cloud. Our consolidated platform and services address the needs of enterprises by improving security and reducing TCO, while simultaneously building trust between AppSec, developers, and CISOs. We are honored to serve more than 1,800 customers, which includes 40 percent of all Fortune 100 companies including Siemens, Airbus, SalesForce, Stellantis, Adidas, Wal-Mart, and Sanofi.