Staff Site Reliability Engineer - FedRAMP

Tenable Network Security, Inc.; Columbia (MD); Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing a cloud-based vulnerability management platform. This position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies while ensuring the reliability and availability of services for government cloud customers. You'll collaborate with talented peers to automate systems, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive efficiencies in operations. If you're passionate about cybersecurity and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you to thrive in a dynamic environment that values innovation and teamwork.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with Company Match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flexible Spending Accounts

Education Assistance

Paid Time Off

Company-paid Holidays

Health and Wellness Events

Qualifications

• 6+ years of related SRE experience required.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and compliance with FedRAMP.
• Strong background in scripting and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability and availability of cloud products.
• Develop tools for deployment and monitoring of production systems.
• Collaborate on complex projects and drive standardization efforts.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

Bash Scripting

Python

Agile Methodology

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Docker

Datadog

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Job description

Staff Site Reliability Engineer - FedRAMP

US - Headquarters - Maryland - Columbia

Who is Tenable?

Tenable is the Exposure Management company. 44,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500, 45 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!

What makes Tenable such a great place to work?

Ask a member of our team and they’ll answer, “Our people!” We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence where we can be our best selves. When you’re part of our #OneTenable team, you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry, and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together!

Your Role:

Have you heard of Tenable? Our cloud-based vulnerability management platform built for today’s dynamic IT assets, like cloud, containers and web apps? Well, that’s what you’ll be working on in this role. You will need to continue to quickly build out the platform, scale it automatically, and make it more self-managing for our private and US Government cloud customers!

• Responsible for taking the code and functionality of Tenable cloud products and ensuring they’re reliable and highly available in private cloud environments
• Responsible for responding to support escalations which involve troubleshooting complex technical problems and resolving data/configuration issues within defined service level objectives
• Responsible for developing software, tools, and scripts to automate deployment, management, and monitoring of production systems in all environments
• Provide strategic and thought leadership among peers on complex projects
• Collaboration with cloud engineers in understanding new cloud technologies, assessing impact to security services operations, and proposing solutions to existing business problems
• Collaboration in the software development lifecycle to develop detailed enhancement/bug definitions, write functional requirements, translate the requirements into solution designs, and navigate the functional requirements through to Production deployments
• Proactively look for ways to create efficiencies within operations as it pertains to the tools and technology used by Tenable to support their customer base
• Manage, participate in, or directly work on any additional projects, assignments, or initiatives assigned by management
• Create/maintain documentation for operational procedures
• Drive standardization efforts across multiple disciplines and services in conjunction with embedded SREs throughout the organization
• Document and perform system upgrades, application updates, and define monitoring requirements based on customer needs
• Participate in an on-call rotation and support 24x7 availability of production application systems
• Remediate infrastructure and container security vulnerabilities

What You'll Need:

• 6+ years of related SRE experience
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC technologies
• 2+ year experience with platform development in compliance with FedRAMP requirements and related government standards, policies, regulations, etc.
• 3+ years deploying public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) preferred including administering managed AWS services (EKS, OpenSearch, MSK, Batch, etc.)
• Experience with orchestration tooling such as Kubernetes
• Experience with Docker or similar container solution
• Bachelor's Degree or Master's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Information Technology Engineering or equivalent work experience
• Strong experience with the Agile software development methodology and collaboration with internal teams to deliver software and configuration artifacts
• Strong background in bash scripting in addition to experience in higher-level scripting languages like Python or Node.js
• Experience leading projects through to completion with a team of peers
• Experience deploying distributed, microservice oriented applications at scale
• Be an enthusiastic learner, user, and advocate of our technologies
• Has desire to win as a team – make big things happen by working together and being open and willing to try new ideas
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills (written, verbal, & virtual) with ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Must have high degree of personal integrity and ability to maintain strict confidentiality
• Must have a strong drive, be self-motivated, logical, and have a keen attention to detail

And Ideally:

• Experience deploying distributed, microservice oriented applications
• Experience with distributed monitoring tools such as: Datadog, Splunk, OTEL, etc.
• Experience with datastore technologies: Kafka, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL
• Experience with Helm
• Experience with Go, Java/Kotlin, and/or Groovy
• Experience with Java build tools including Gradle
• 2+ years of operational experience with industry-leading "big data" services technologies

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This is the base pay range for this position. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, location and experience, and may fall outside of the range shown. Employees are also eligible for variable compensation in addition to base pay (commission for sales roles, bonus for non-sales roles), depending on company and individual performance. Tenable also offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefits which include: medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance; 401(k) retirement savings with company match; an employee stock purchase plan; an employee referral program; flexible spending accounts; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); education assistance; parental leave; paid time off (PTO); company-paid holidays; health and wellness events; and community programs.

US Pay Ranges

$161,500 - $215,500 USD

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