Senior Cloud Engineer- Platform Developer

Graylog: Empowering Threat Detection & Incident Response Solutions with Cutting-Edge Technology Graylog specialises in delivering top-notch Threat Detection & Incident Response (TDIR) solutions, backed by our latest addition, the Graylog API security platform. As a renowned centralised log management (CLM) and Security Information Event Management (SIEM) provider, we offer unparalleled fast and efficient log analysis capabilities in critical areas such as security, compliance, operations, and DevOps. Our enterprise solution enables organisations globally to capture, store, and analyse terabytes of machine data in near-real time while our open-source product has been deployed in more than 50,000 installations worldwide, empowering individuals and small teams to perform basic log consolidation, analysis, and search functions at no cost. We're a remote-friendly company with locations in Hamburg, Munich, London, Boulder, and headquarters in Houston, TX. If you live near an office and want to be part of said office great.  Nearish to an office and want to have the ability to hot desk? No problem, and if you're not near an office and wish to work remotely, all good! Several recent achievements for Graylog have been we were included in the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, 2023 Gold Globee award for cyber security & DevOps, and most recently we took home two of the most prestigious cybersecurity awards in SIEM and DevSecOps from Cyber Defence Magazine at RSA this year.
Who we’re looking for; We’re currently recruiting for a Senior Cloud Engineer- Platform Developer to join our multinational cloud services team. As a Senior Cloud Engineer- Platform Developer here at Graylog you will design and develop our scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure platform with a focus on delivering a product that is highly available, resilient, secure, scalable, cost-efficient, and consistently delivers valuable outcomes to consumers. Our Cloud Engineers/ Platform Developers work with state-of-the-art technologies as we ensure you have the right tools to make a significant impact in managing our systems and to drive their continuous improvement while shaping the future of our cloud strategy. We believe that the best ideas can come from anywhere, and we value your input and initiative. Here, you will not just be a guardian of our infrastructure; you’ll be an innovator, a problem-solver, and a leader. You will have the opportunity to collaborate and influence our product, software development, SRE, support, and pre-sales organizations to ensure that they are equipped with top-notch cloud-engineering knowledge enabling them to make better decisions in the development of our cloud offerings. This role is a full-time permanent position based in either the UK or Germany and will report to our Director, Cloud based in Germany.  

Additional responsibilities will include but are not limited to;

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Creating pull requests (PRs) to introduce changes to our AWS+Terraform+Kubernetes architecture, supporting new application functionality with additional infrastructure components and subsystems.
• Security & Compliance: Implementing security measures, auditing the cloud environment, and ensuring adherence to compliance standards.
• Cost Improvements: Auditing our cloud expenses, suggesting, and implementing improvements that positively affect our ability to provide customers with the best service without compute waste.
• Issue Resolution: Collaborating with teams to identify and resolve infrastructure-related issues and developing long term solutions.
• Cloud Strategy Advocacy: Championing cloud strategies that align with and advance our business objectives, especially during pitch cycles and other planning meetings.
• Knowledge Sharing: Connecting with software, cloud, SRE, and support engineers, documenting key decisions where possible and ensuring critical knowledge isn’t siloed into a single spot in the organization.

What you can expect your first 12 months will look like;

• Platform Codebase Knowledge- Within the first 3 months, acquire an understanding of and submit an approved peer-reviewed pull request (APRPR) for each of the following technologies: Terraform, Flux, Kustomize, Helm, and Argo Workflows.
• Feature Improvements: In the first 3-6 months, deliver a POC for a new solution expanding our platform capabilities i.e. design and add a new query engine, migrate k8s workers to another CPU architecture, or adapt the k8s workers to utilize Spot instance where possible for minimizing costs.
• Security and Compliance: In the first 6-12 months, contribute to at least one of the following: AWS Product and Architecture Review, SOC 2 compliance review, Disaster Recovery (DR) plan review and drill, Security Penetration Test (Pen Test) review and remediation.

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