DevOps Engineer
The Company: Varonis (Nasdaq: VRNS) is a leader in data security, fighting a different battle than conventional cybersecurity companies. Our cloud-native Data Security Platform continuously discovers and classifies critical data, removes exposures, and detects advanced threats with AI-powered automation.
Thousands of organizations worldwide trust Varonis to defend their data wherever it lives — across SaaS, IaaS, and hybrid cloud environments. Customers use Varonis to automate a wide range of security outcomes, including data security posture management (DSPM), data classification, data access governance (DAG), data detection and response (DDR), data loss prevention (DLP), and insider risk management.
Varonis protects data first, not last. Learn more at www.varonis.com.
The Role: We are seeking an experienced and driven DevOps Engineer to join our join an engineering team whose mission is to make AI secure for the enterprise. We have a cutting‑edge product and the resources to scale aggressively.
The Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles.
- Hands-o experience operating production workloads in AWS GovCloud, including supporting a FedRAMP Moderate (or higher) authorization boundary, Terraform-managed infrastructure, evidence collection, and control implementation in a regulated environment.
- Previous experience in a high-scale, production environment.
- Strong expertise in AWS services, particularly EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, and VPC.
- Knowledge of event-driven architectures using AWS Lambda and SNS/SQS.
- Hands-on experience managing databases in production environments.
- Proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK for infrastructure automation.
- Experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes).
- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and security best practices.
- Proficiency in scripting (Python or Bash) for automation.
- Strong troubleshooting and incident response skills.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
The Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure with a focus on high availability and fault tolerance.
- Design and configure ECS scaling strategies.
- Optimize, monitor, and automate Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) performance, backups, and failover strategies.
- Implement disaster recovery plans, backup solutions, and system restoration procedures.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Create monitoring and alerting systems using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment automation and system resilience.
- Perform incident management, troubleshoot production issues, and conduct post-mortems.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure best practices in application reliability and performance.
- Stay up-to-date with AWS services and industry best practices to drive continuous improvement.
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Varonis is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles
- Hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS GovCloud
- Experience supporting a FedRAMP Moderate or higher authorization boundary
- Experience with Terraform-managed infrastructure, evidence collection, and control implementation in regulated environments
- Previous experience in a high-scale production environment
- Strong expertise with AWS EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, and VPC
- Knowledge of event-driven architectures using AWS Lambda and SNS/SQS
- Hands-on experience managing production databases
- Proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
- Experience with Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and security best practices
- Proficiency in Python or Bash scripting
- Strong troubleshooting and incident response skills
- Experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
Varonis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision options that start immediately in some locations. The package is frequently characterized as a strong part of the overall rewards offering alongside other core benefits.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with company matching (or a pension plan by region), which strengthens the long-term value of the package. Participation is complemented by additional ownership programs that increase total-rewards attractiveness.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity-related rewards such as stock options and an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) are a notable part of the total compensation mix. These elements are often cited as helping offset middling perceptions of base pay, especially where equity participation is accessible.
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What We Do
Varonis is a pioneer in data security and analytics, fighting a different battle than conventional cybersecurity companies. Varonis focuses on protecting enterprise data on premises and in the cloud: sensitive files and emails; confidential customer, patient and employee data; financial records; strategic and product plans; and other intellectual property. The Varonis Data Security Platform detects insider threats and cyberattacks by analyzing data, account activity, perimeter telemetry, and user behavior; prevents and limits disaster by discovering, classifying and locking down sensitive, regulated and stale data; and efficiently sustains a secure state with automation. With a focus on data security, Varonis serves a variety of use cases including data protection, threat detection and response, and compliance. Varonis started operations in 2005 and, as of December 31, 2018, had approximately 6,600 customers worldwide — comprised of industry leaders in many sectors including technology, consumer, retail, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, media, and education.
