Senior DevOps Engineer

Published on February 02, 2025

Together, we’re redefining identity’s place in the security ecosystem. We love taking on new challenges that seem daunting to others. We hold ourselves to the highest standards and deliver upon our promises to our customers. We bring out the best in each other, and we’re having a lot of fun doing it.

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for cloud enterprises. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job – no more, no less.    
This is a remote position located in the United Kingdom. 
As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be embedded within the Non-Employee Risk Management team to build and maintain resilient, secure and efficient SaaS applications. You will work closely with Software Engineers and DevOps Engineers alike. You will take on the role of subject matter expert of DevOps within your application team(s). You will report directly to the Manager, NERM DevOps on the Non-Employee Risk Management product team.  
What you will make happen:  
  • Partner with the Non-Employee Risk Management Application Teams to build and maintain resilient, secure, and efficient SaaS (software as a service) applications that meet established SLAs (service level agreements) 
  • Automate deployment, monitoring, management, and incident response   
  • Monitor site stability and performance and troubleshoot service issues  
  • Automate the scaling infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demand  
  • Manage cross-functional requirements working with Engineering, Product, and Centralized DevOps teams to maintain core platform standards while supporting rapid service development. 
  • Collaborate with developers to bring new features and services into production 
  • Develop and improve operational practices and procedures   
  • Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance, such as (but not limited to) ISO27001, SOC1, SOC2, IRAP, C5, etc. 
  • Must be willing to be part of an on-call rotation 
  • Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
  • Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
  • Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
  • Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives
Background & Experience:  
  • 5+ years of experience in 24x7 production operations, preferably supporting a highly available environment for a SaaS or cloud service provider   
  • 5+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure environments; AWS strongly preferred 
  • Release automation (GitHub Actions preferred) with CI/CD pipelines   
  • Linux administration, and Linux debugging experience , RHCE or similar desired  
  • Experience using programming languages (Python, Ruby on Rails) to manage cloud environments at scale   
  • Experience in the following: MongoDB, SQL, HashiStack, Kafka, Redis, kubernetes
  • Strong understanding of system and networking concepts and troubleshooting techniques   
  • Ability to operate in an agile environment that is rapidly evolving
  • Have excellent communication skills- English fluency of C1 or higher preferred 
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or other technical discipline, or equivalent experience is preferred, but not required.
Learn more about NERM here
SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.