Fortinet

DevOps/SRE Engineer (Data Services Focus)

Reposted 2 Months Ago

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Sunnyvale, CA, USA

In-Office

170K-200K Annually

Senior level

Security • Software • Cybersecurity

The Role

Hands-on Site Reliability Engineer responsible for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability (logging/monitoring/tracing), automation, and security best practices. Manage datacenter resources, troubleshoot clusters and services, collaborate with engineering teams for deployments, and participate in on-call incident response to ensure high availability and performance.

Summary Generated by Built In

Responsibilities
- Deploy, configure, upgrade, and maintain platform components, including capacity planning.
- Troubleshoot production incidents, identify root causes, and improve reliability and performance.
- Develop automation tools and improve monitoring, runbooks, change validation, and recovery procedures.
- Collaborate with development, security, and infrastructure teams on releases, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery exercises.
Qualifications
- Experience developing or operating production systems, with the ability to independently deliver work and troubleshoot problems. Three or more years of relevant experience preferred.
- Strong Linux fundamentals, including networking, permissions, processes, storage, and service operation.
- Practical programming or automation experience with at least one language, such as Python, Bash, Go, or Java.
- Ability to clearly explain personal technical contributions, incident investigations, and how results were validated.
- Solid hands-on experience in at least one of these areas:
  - Infrastructure / Bare Metal: Linux administration, server provisioning, OS hardening, patching, hardware troubleshooting, and capacity planning
  - Virtualization: QEMU/KVM, hypervisor administration, VM lifecycle management, virtual networking, and resource planning
  - Network: Network planning, routing, DNS, firewalls, service connectivity, and network troubleshooting
  - Kubernetes / Rancher: Cluster provisioning, upgrades, networking, service exposure, access control, and production troubleshooting
  - Ceph Platform: Rook-Ceph, object storage/S3, storage lifecycle management, performance, recovery, and multisite replication
  - Data Service Platform: PostgreSQL, Valkey/Redis, Elasticsearch, high availability, replication, backup, and recovery
  - Monitoring & Alerting: Metrics, logs, dashboards, alerting, observability platforms, and performance analysis
  - CI/CD and Automation: Build and deployment pipelines, configuration management, infrastructure as code, release engineering, and operational automation
  - Security Operations: Certificate and secrets management, vulnerability remediation, security controls, incident response, and audit evidence
  - Development / Platform Engineering: Platform software, infrastructure tooling, system integrations, bug fixes, and automated testing

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $170,000-$200,000. Fortinet offers employees a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k), 11 paid holidays, vacation time, and sick time as well as a comprehensive leave program.

Wage ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, and job level. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

All roles are eligible to participate in the Fortinet equity program, Bonus eligibility is reviewed at time of hire and annually at the Company’s discretion.

Why Join Us:

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and identities to apply. We offer a supportive work environment and a competitive Total Rewards package to support you with your overall health and financial well-being. Embark on a challenging, enjoyable, and rewarding career journey with Fortinet. Join us in bringing solutions that make a meaningful and lasting impact to our 660,000+ customers around the globe.

About Us

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks number one in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

Fortinet is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity in our company, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, military/veteran status or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

Skills Required

8+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering role
Proficiency with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Rancher)
Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
Expertise in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, or Go)
Familiarity with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef)
Solid understanding of networking, security, and Linux-based systems
Participate in on-call rotation and incident response handling
Experience with ingress controller technologies (nginx controller, FortiADC, F5 BigIP)
Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
Experience with network devices such as firewall, WAF, switches
Experience with storage service management such as Ceph
Knowledge of zero-downtime deployment strategies (blue/green, canary)
Experience in high-availability and fault-tolerant system design
Familiarity with GitOps principles and tooling

Fortinet Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity in the form of stock awards and RSUs is highlighted as a meaningful part of total compensation and one of the package’s strongest advantages. Recognition programs may include stock, further emphasizing equity’s role in rewards.
Strong & Reliable Incentives — Performance bonuses and incentives are presented as key components of total rewards, with some roles achieving strong total compensation through these elements. Incentive opportunities are described as a major strength when included in an offer.
Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan, often with matching contributions, and broader retirement and savings programs contribute to solid financial security. These elements are positioned as competitive features of the package.