As a DevOps Engineer at FireMon, you'll play a critical role in building and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling, and processes that empower our engineering teams to develop high-quality software quickly and confidently. You'll partner closely with developers, engineers, and stakeholders to streamline workflows, eliminate bottlenecks, and uphold the reliability and security of our systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain the infrastructure and tooling that supports rapid, reliable development and delivery of FireMon's products
- Identify and automate repetitive manual processes across our build, test, and release pipelines to improve team-wide productivity
- Own and oversee code releases, ensuring deployments follow established processes and meet quality standards
- Act as a bridge between stakeholders and development teams, translating business needs into technical requirements
- Continuously evaluate and improve CI/CD pipelines, development workflows, and release processes
- Review and analyze code written by others, providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to best practices
- Champion security across the SDLC, proactively identifying vulnerabilities and ensuring systems are hardened against cybersecurity threats
- Diagnose and resolve technical issues, developing patches and updates as needed
- Contribute to project planning and execution, helping to scope, prioritize, and deliver initiatives on time
- Stay current with emerging tools, technologies, and industry trends as FireMon's platform and ecosystem continue to evolve
- Work autonomously while contributing to a collaborative, supportive engineering community
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience in development operations or a similar role
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitLab CI/CD (preferred), Jenkins, or CircleCI
- Proficiency in scripting and strongly typed languages, including Python, Bash, Java, and/or Go
- Experience with version control systems, particularly Git; familiarity with GitLab-based workflows (merge requests, protected branches) preferred
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, or Pulumi
- Experience with container runtimes such as Docker
- Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible (preferred), Puppet, Chef, or Salt
- Experience with Kubernetes (preferably AWS EKS), including Helm charts, Kustomize, and GitOps delivery tools like Flux CD
- Understanding of core networking concepts (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to produce clear technical documentation
- Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment with shifting priorities
- A growth mindset — eager to learn new technologies and apply them to real-world challenges
- Creative thinker who can translate technical knowledge into meaningful improvements across the product
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, PKI, and dynamic credentials
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Experience with AWS services such as EKS, VPC, IAM/IRSA, Route53, S3, EFS, and Transit Gateway
- Exposure to on-premises hypervisors such as Nutanix AHV/Prism Central
- Experience with Kubernetes ecosystem tooling: Karpenter, External Secrets Operator, Cilium, Envoy Gateway
- Familiarity with security scanning and compliance tools (Trivy, Checkov, Gitleaks)
- Experience with PostgreSQL administration
Top Skills
What We Do
FireMon is the only agile network security policy platform for firewalls and cloud security groups providing the fastest way to streamline network security policy management, which is one of the biggest impediments to IT and enterprise agility. Since creating the first-ever network security policy management solution, FireMon has delivered command and control over complex network security infrastructures for more than 1,700 customers located in nearly 70 countries around the world.
