DevOps Engineer

Who you are: You are a customer-focused, data-driven developer with a passion for delivering exceptional customer experiences. You have a strong understanding of cloud technologies, automation, infrastructure as code, networking, microservices architectures, object-oriented design, and DevOps practices. You are proficient in Python, Groovy, or Go and have a desire to continuously learn and expand your technical expertise. You bring proven experience applying software engineering best practices throughout the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, security, source control management, build processes, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, chaos engineering, and self-healing operations. You are familiar with technologies and tools such as AWS, Azure, CloudFormation, Terraform, New Relic, Lambda, Serverless, Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, and Jira. What to expect as a member of the Developer Platform (DevPlat) team at WatchGuard: The WatchGuard Developer Platform team owns and supports CI/CD pipelines across multi-cloud environments, along with key developer platforms and services including GHES, Artifactory, Jenkins, Graylog, service discovery tools, cloud infrastructure in AWS and Azure, and build platforms used by our development teams. As you become familiar with our systems, you will: • Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure foundational platforms that enable developers to deliver high-quality software efficiently. • Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD workflows across multi-cloud environments while ensuring fast, reliable, and secure build, test, and deployment processes. • Automate and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, and Bicep. • Build and maintain internal tools that improve developer productivity, efficiency, and security. • Design, implement, and manage secure, scalable networking solutions across AWS and Azure, including VPC/VNet, routing, DNS, and load balancing. • Automate cloud networking infrastructure while following performance, reliability, and security best practices. • Design, deploy, and manage containerized applications on Kubernetes platforms (EKS and AKS), ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. • Build and maintain container platforms, ingress controllers, service discovery solutions, observability tools, and deployment automation using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. A Typical Day in the Life of a Developer Platform Engineer at WatchGuard: As a member of the DevPlat team, a typical day may include: • Creating and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, developer tools, and cloud infrastructure. • Building internal developer tools that automate repetitive tasks and improve developer productivity. • Championing security and operational excellence while serving as a trusted cloud expert for development teams around the world. • Continuously learning new technologies and sharing knowledge through documentation, presentations, and collaboration with other teams.