This is a remote position.
DevOps Trainee (SaaS Security)
Our Mission
At AccuKnox, our mission is to make it easy for organizations to achieve visibility, compliance and security in their cloud native assets. We offer industry leading zero trust Cloud Native Application Protection Platform.
About Us
AccuKnox provides a Zero Trust Cloud Native Application Security (CNAPP) platform. AccuKnox is the core contributor to Kubernetes Run-time security solution, KubeArmor®, a very popular CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) project. AccuKnox was developed in partnership with SRI (Stanford Research Institute) and is anchored on seminal inventions in the areas of Container Security, Anomaly Detection, and Data Provenance. AccuKnox can be deployed in Public and Private Cloud environments. www.accuknox.com
Background / Review Material In preparation for a followup discussion:
AccuKnox Exec Summary video [4 mins]
AccuKnox e-book / audio book [10 mins]
We recently demonstrated our support for AWS Bottlerocket and will be announcing a partnership with them. Here is a blog co-authored by AWS and us on KubeArmor delivering security for AWS Bottlerocket
Here is AccuKnox Demo on AWS Bottlerocket [10 minutes]
AccuKnox Differentiation: Inline vs Post Attack Mitigation – 4 min video
Traits of people who do well at AccuKnox
Professionals who subscribe to these core values
Responsibilities:
Collaborating with developers, team leads, and management to understand DevOps requirements and software issues, and developing and implementing solutions for them.
On the SRE side, making active contributions to ensure uptime and reliability of applications and cloud infrastructure. Pro-active monitoring, resolving and tracking of SRE Issues.
Researching and conducting a POC on software solutions to optimize DevOps and product performance, improve stability, and resolve issues if any.
Be available 24x7 and/or comfortable with shift work supporting production SaaS solutions.
Documenting SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), and solutions.
Conforming to best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.
Requirements
Key Skills:
Linux Server Administration
CI/CD Tools - Jenkins/Github Actions
Configuration Management Tool – Ansible
Infrastructure As Code (IaC) Tool – Terraform
Cloud Providers – AWS/Azure/GCP
Scripting - Bash/Python
Good to Have:
Good hands-on experience in Linux System Administration
Passionate about Infrastructure as a Code (Terraform preferred)
Proficiency in at least one of the following cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Experience working on SQL DBs, eg: MySql, Postgres
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience on Version Control system (Github preferred)
Experience with scripting using Python and Shell scripts
Monitoring tool experience like Splunk/ Prometheus/ Grafana
Experience with Centralized Log collection and analytics using Grafana/ELK
Experience provisioning, deploying, monitoring maintaining code of large hosted platforms in a microservice environment
Good to have below certifications:
Cloud Providers: AWS/Azure/GCP
IaC: Terraform
Kubernetes: CKAD/CKA
Linux: RHCE/RHCSA
Good to have knowledge and experience with Helm/Kustomize.