DevOps Responsibilities

• Following cloud-based architectures that meet availability, scalability, and security requirements
• Partner with security engineers to develop plans and automation to respond urgently and safely to new risks and vulnerabilities
• Ensure High Availability and execute Disaster Recovery tests
• Implement OS tuning, optimization, and system requirements for vertical/horizontal scaling
• Support the critical infrastructure (compute, data, LLMs) used to operate Ada’s product
• Implementation and management of AWS infrastructure components such as VPCs, EC2, S3, EKS, CloudFront, etc with a focus on security
• Identify bottlenecks, opportunities for optimization, and capacity demands

Security Responsibilities

• Applies a strong understanding of security principles, practices, and technologies in order to maintain and improve upon Ada’s overall security posture within engineering
• Participates as a primary operator or administrator of select systems and tools relevant to Ada’s security operations (e.g. AWS WAF, CrowdStrike, CloudFlare Zero Trust, etc.)
• Participates as a primary contributor to the detection and remediation of infrastructure-related security issues, including both event-driven engagements and configuration improvements
• Participates as a primary contributor to project work relevant to improving Ada’s overall security posture
• Participates as a supporting contributor to various routine security functions (e.g. vulnerability disclosure program triaging, vulnerability remediation, incident response, etc.)
• Acts as a security champion within Ada, promoting a culture of security within the organization and empowering individuals to adhere to best practices

General Responsibilities

• Builds functional relationships and collaborates with a limited set of internal and external stakeholders in order to collaborate on engagements resulting in improved security practices and outcomes
• Participates in an on-call rotation enabling 24/7/365 incident response

Outcomes

• Contribute and help lead the design of a foundational, cross-cutting platform to support our engineering organization
• Working closely with the security team to implement and monitor the security of cloud and application environments
• Serve as an indirect member of the security team, spearheading engineering efforts related to the development, deployment, maintenance, and improvement of security-related infrastructure and processes
• Continuously drive improvements in areas like performance, automation, quality, monitoring, and reliability of platforms
• Participating in an on-call rotation for the services the team owns, triaging and addressing production issues

About You

• 4+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure engineering
• 4+ years of experience in security operations or security engineering
• 2+ years of experience in a cloud environment
• Strong technical leadership skills
• Experience with deploying and securing modern cloud infrastructure environments and adjacent tooling (AWS, Azure, MongoDB, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps)
• Hands-on Configuration Management experience with production environments
• Familiarity with containers, bash, Linux, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code principles
• Strong motivation and experience to apply automation to reduce operational toil for security and engineering teams
• Demonstrated security knowledge (e.g. CCSP, AWS Certified Security – Specialty)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous stock option plan
• Unlimited vacation
• Wellness account
• Extended health coverage
• Dental/optical/travel insurance
• Life insurance
• Employee and family assistance plan

Perks

• Flexible work schedule
• Remote-first, In-person friendly work environment with WFH budget
• Paid parental leave for Canadian and U.S. residents
• Development opportunities

The expected salary range for this position is $106,934 - $139,325. Actual pay will be determined based on several factors such as past experience and qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

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