DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join our innovative team as a DevOps Engineer and be a pivotal part of Cobalt's journey in redefining cybersecurity. You will leverage your expertise in devops and cloud infrastructure to drive advancements in our Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform. Your contributions will directly impact how businesses globally detect and manage cybersecurity risks. This role offers a culture of learning and excellence where your work contributes to building a safer digital future. You will deploy, manage, and optimize GKE clusters, ensure scalability and security of microservices, and implement CI/CD pipelines. The position requires strong expertise with GCP services and experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and various monitoring tools. Cobalt offers competitive compensation, equity, and benefits including 401(k), health insurance, paid time off, and stipends for wellness, work-from-home equipment, and learning & development.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Cloud Operations, DevOps, or SRE roles
• Strong expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, especially GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, and IAM
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and service meshes
• Proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Solid experience with CI/CD tools
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools
• Understanding of networking, security best practices, and database management in a cloud environment

Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage, and optimize GKE clusters to run containerized applications
• Ensure scalability, availability, and security of microservices in Kubernetes
• Implement service mesh solutions (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) and traffic management strategies
• Design and maintain cloud resources using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Automate provisioning, scaling, and configuration management using
• Implement CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain observability tools
• Proactively monitor system health, detect anomalies, and resolve performance bottlenecks
• Establish incident response workflows and participate in on-call rotations
• Manage and optimize cloud databases (Cloud SQL, Firestore, Spanner, BigQuery) to ensure efficient data storage and access
• Implement database backup, replication, and failover strategies
• Enforce IAM policies, role-based access control (RBAC), and network security best practices
• Ensure compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, or other industry standards as required

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of serverless computing (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions)
• Familiarity with policy-as-code frameworks like OPA (Open Policy Agent)
• Exposure to machine learning workloads on Kubernetes

Benefits

• Earn competitive compensation and an attractive equity plan
• Save for the future with a 401(k) program (US)
• Benefit from medical, dental, vision and life insurance (US)
• Leverage stipends for:WellnessWork-from-home equipment & wifiLearning & development
• Make the most of our flexible, generous paid time off and paid parental leave