What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer position at Apono?
At Apono we empower organizations to run in the cloud by aligning operations and security around access management.
Our platform provides companies with Just-In-Time and Just Enough access across their hybrid environments reducing the access risk while improving productivity. Apono has offices in New York and Tel Aviv and supports dozens of customers across the US and the world including large Fortune 500 companies, and was honored in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management.
What are we looking for?
We are seeking a skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our growing R&D team. In this role, you will take ownership of our CI/CD pipelines, production environments, developer experience, and cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with the engineering team to ensure smooth operations, optimize infrastructure, and drive best practices across the board.
Responsibilities:
- Working closely with developers to optimize their pipelines and taking ownership of the development experience
- Monitoring the development & production environments and ensuring they are always up & running correctly
- Applying best practices across the pipelines, environments & the developer experience
- Ownership on making sure developers are as productive as they can be
- Managing cloud environments from multiple clouds
- Upgrading and implementing modern technologies
Requirements:
- GitHub Actions (2yrs )
- Cloud Experience - AWS, GCP (advantage), Azure (advantage) (4yrs )
- Strong familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code best practices
- Kubernetes (production, not just familiarity) (4rs )
- Strong Linux, bash & Python familiarity (4yrs )
- Experience in production monitoring using one or more of the following tools:
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Jaeger (advantage)
- SaaS monitoring platforms (Datadog, Logz.io, Coralogix, etc - advantage)
- Experience with FinOps in general and cost optimization specifically - advantage
- On-call duty - incidents can occur once in a while (on average once every 2-3 weeks)
- Ability to take on complex tasks and break them down into smaller sub-tasks when necessary
- Start-up mindset & experience required
- Strong security mindset
- Familiarity with vulnerability and code scanning tools and practices
If you’re passionate about building reliable systems, enjoy taking ownership, and want to make a real impact on cutting-edge infrastructure, we’d love to meet you!
