Lead DevOps Engineer

UnifyID; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Redwood City is seeking a DevOps engineer who is skilled in setting up and maintaining complex systems. The ideal candidate will have experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure, along with solid skills in Python and Bash. Responsibilities include ensuring high availability, monitoring system logs, and automating deployment tasks. Applicants must thrive in fast-paced environments and work collaboratively within teams, making intelligent decisions under pressure. This is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking organization in Silicon Valley.

Qualifications

• Comfortable with complex system setups and high availability.
• Experience implementing access control policies and automating tasks.
• Ability to analyze logs and ensure security configurations.

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain high availability in complex systems.
• Monitor and analyze system logs for security and performance.
• Automate deployment tasks for better efficiency.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Linux/BSD

Tools

AWS

Azure

NGINX

Kerberos

TLS

Job description

About Prove (acquired UnifyID)

Prove is the modern platform for continuous identity authentication and is used by over 1,000 enterprises and 500 financial institutions, including 9 of the top 10 U.S. banks. Prove’s cloud solutions, and mobile intelligence-driven APIs can be easily orchestrated to increase Approve Rates to over 90%, enabling companies to authenticate customer identities accurately, effortlessly, and privately while mitigating fraud. Prove’s solutions are available in 195 countries.

About the Role

For UnifyID, a DevOps engineer is comfortable with setting up complex systems, maintaining high availability, monitoring and analyzing logs, ensuring firewall and security groups are tightly set, enforcing access control policies, and documenting and automating tasks for easier deployments in the future. Similar roles we would accept are:

Join us!

As we continue to scale our company, we are looking for people who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self‑starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly, and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smarts but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.

• System administrator (with orchestration experience)* Site-reliability engineer You should have a general idea and interest on how complex computer systems are orchestrated on AWS and Azure Cloud. A subset of Docker, Docker-compose, Docker‑swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos experience required. Power‑user experience with Linux or BSD flavors is a big plus.
• Python, Bash
• Deploying Docker containers on AWS or Azure
• Microservice-based architectures
• NGINX, Bind, Kerberos, NFS, TLS, HTTPS
• The ability to argue fluently about security and scalability

Prove has big plans; we’re excited and optimistic about the future. If this sounds like a career for you – come check us out.

This team is located in the heart of Silicon Valley in downtown Redwood City and has unparalleled access to deep entrepreneurial expertise, high-caliber academic research institutions, and top-tier VC resources.

Finally, it is important that you be authentic and be yourself.

Prove is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or other personal characteristics.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.