The Role
Design, build, and automate CI/CD and deployment toolsets for cloud-hosted SaaS microservices. Deploy and configure containerized applications to Tomcat and Kubernetes, manage MongoDB test databases, troubleshoot build and environment issues, own GitHub/Artifactory/Jenkins release activities, optimize cloud infrastructure costs, and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation while collaborating with development, architecture, and product teams.
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About Us
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
The SRE Engineer will play a key role in the Sophos development process by facilitating, managing, communicating, and automating tasks for the deployment and configuration of continuous feature builds for multiple development teams. By leveraging knowledge and expertise in the deployment of SaaS applications and microservices hosted in the cloud, the SRE engineer will streamline the process of quick and frequent automated builds and help elevate the Sophos development process to the next level of agility. As a member of the Sophos SRE team, you will work closely with software engineers, architects, product management and others to design and build the foundational toolset and capabilities that allow Sophos developers to quickly bring new features to market.
What You Will Do
- Provide technical skillset to the SRE team by planning and designing SRE toolsets and automation.
- Participate in architecture and security reviews for SRE Projects
- Evangelize cloud technologies and CI/CD solutions for wider engineering teams
- Focus on developing tools and processes for secure development practice.
- Collaborate with multiple feature development teams to identify needs for building and deploying their applications.
- Deploy and configure daily iterative builds of applications and containers into Tomcat server and Kubernetes clusters for multiple feature development teams. Deploy and configure MongoDB test databases with test data.
- Design and implement automation for deployment and configuration tasks
- Identify cloud infrastructure needs for deployment environments and manage costs.
- Troubleshoot failed builds and deployments. Determine and fix environment and configuration issues. Analyze logs and communicate potential code issues to development teams.
- Facilitate, manage and communicate information related to environments - their current state, deployed versions and availability to developers, QA engineers and team members.
- Own and execute Github, Artifactory and Jenkins-based software configuration and release activities in central Git repositories and Jenkins builds, branching, tagging, building, releasing.
- Support services and applications 24/7 by participating in an on-call rotation.
What You Will Bring
- 2-4 years with some of the following technologies JAVA, Groovy, Python, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong knowledge with scripting languages, preferably Python and Groovy
- Experience with build tools like Gradle, Maven, NPM
- Experience supporting production grade systems including Linux administration, deployment, high availability & durability, practical logging & monitoring, and cost optimization in a public cloud, preferably AWS
- Hands on experience with Terraform
- Knowledge of AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, S3 is preferrable.
- Kubernetes and container orchestration experience a big plus
- Experience with Blue/Green deployments is preferred
- Experience with CI/CD tools and automation methodologies, specifically Jenkins
- Strong working knowledge of Docker and the container ecosystem
- Excellent operational knowledge of Linux operating systems
- Administration and automation skills with developer tools like Bitbucket, Artifactory
- Some experience with CI/CD automation for DevSecOps tools like Sonar, Blackduck
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At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.
What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
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Skills Required
- 2-4 years experience with Java, Groovy, Python, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Strong knowledge of scripting languages
- Experience with build tools: Gradle, Maven, NPM
- Experience supporting production-grade systems: Linux administration, deployment, high availability, logging and monitoring, cloud cost optimization
- Hands-on experience with Terraform
- Knowledge of AWS services (EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, S3)
- Kubernetes and container orchestration experience
- Experience with Blue/Green deployments
- Experience with CI/CD tools and automation, specifically Jenkins
- Strong working knowledge of Docker and the container ecosystem
- Excellent operational knowledge of Linux operating systems
- Administration and automation skills with developer tools like Bitbucket and Artifactory
- Some experience with CI/CD automation for DevSecOps tools such as Sonar and Blackduck
- Experience deploying applications to Tomcat and Kubernetes and configuring MongoDB test databases
- Experience owning and executing GitHub, Artifactory and Jenkins-based software configuration and release activities
- Willingness to support services via a 24/7 on-call rotation
- Troubleshooting failed builds, deployments, environment and configuration issues, and log analysis
Sophos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sophos and has not been reviewed or approved by Sophos.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is positioned as broad, with company-wide wellness days plus dedicated learning days and paid volunteer time.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related leave appears more comprehensive than baseline offerings, including paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and extended bereavement leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is emphasized through always-available assistance resources and a Calm subscription, suggesting a lifestyle-oriented benefits approach.
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The Company
What We Do
Cybersecurity Evolved. As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects nearly 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.
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