DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer Our Team's Mission At SailPoint, our Engineering team is on a mission to deliver a world-class, cloud-native identity security platform. In the next 12 months, our goal is to enhance our event-driven microservices architecture on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to support a 25% increase in customer workload and reduce our incident response time by 50%. We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team and play a critical role in achieving these objectives. Your Impact in the First Year As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our SaaS products. Your success will be measured by your ability to achieve the following: First 3 Months: Master our GitOps-based deployment pipelines. You will be expected to independently manage and troubleshoot deployments using ArgoCD and Kargo, and contribute to the team's on-call rotation. First 6 Months: Enhance our CI/CD processes and workflow efficiency. You will lead the project to reduce average build and deployment times by 20% by optimizing GitHub Actions, Helm charts, and introducing initial AI-assisted automation. First 12 Months: Improve system scalability and reliability. You will design and implement infrastructure enhancements using Terraform to support a 25% increase in customer workload while maintaining a 99.9% uptime. Core Responsibilities Deployment Pipeline Management: Build and maintain our GitOps-based deployment pipelines to ensure a 99% success rate for all deployments and reduce manual intervention by 30% within the first year. Infrastructure Management: Manage and scale our Kubernetes infrastructure on GCP, with a goal of optimizing resource utilization to achieve a 15% cost reduction in our GCP spending over the next 18 months. Automation and CI/CD: Enhance and maintain our GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to decrease the lead time for changes to production by 25% within the first year. AI-Assisted Workflow Integration: Integrate AI-assisted tooling into day-to-day DevOps and engineering workflows to improve productivity, scalability, and operational efficiency. You will leverage AI tools to generate initial configuration drafts, validate infrastructure code, and utilize AI-driven automation to reduce repetitive manual tasks by 20% within the first 6 months, accelerating engineering execution while maintaining high-quality standards. System Reliability: Proactively improve system reliability and availability, with the objective of reducing the number of critical production incidents by 50% through improved monitoring, logging, and alerting within 12 months. What We're Looking For 3+ years in DevOps/SRE: You have proven experience in a high-growth SaaS environment and can hit the ground running to help us scale our platform. Google Cloud Platform (GCP): You possess a deep understanding of GCP services, particularly GKE, which is essential as our entire infrastructure is on GCP. ArgoCD and Kargo: You have hands-on experience with GitOps and progressive delivery, which is key to our goal of achieving faster, more reliable deployments. Kubernetes and Helm: You bring strong experience in managing and deploying applications on Kubernetes, as you will be responsible for the container orchestration of our microservices. Terraform: You have expertise in infrastructure as code, which will be crucial for our project to scale our infrastructure and reduce costs. Forward-Thinking Automation: You have a strong interest in or experience with leveraging emerging technologies, including AI tools, to modernize workflows, validate code, and eliminate repetitive manual tasks. SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law. Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability. Contact ✉ Sign in to view email or mail to 11120 Four Points Dr, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78726, to discuss reasonable accommodations. NOTE: Any unsolicited resumes sent by candidates or agencies to this email will not be considered for current openings at SailPoint. SailPoint is a leading provider of identity security for the modern enterprise. Enterprise security starts and ends with identities and their access, yet the ability to manage and secure identities today has moved well beyond human capacity. Using a foundation of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the SailPoint Identity Security Platform delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and environmental needs of today’s cloud-oriented enterprise. Our intelligent, autonomous, and integrated solutions put identity security at the core of digital business operations, enabling even the most complex organizations across the globe to build a security foundation capable of defending against today’s most pressing threats. The employment policy of SailPoint is to provide equal opportunity to all persons, and it is SailPoint’s policy to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. It is SailPoint’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote qualified individuals in all job titles, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, military and/or veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status, and we will ensure that all employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements. SailPoint does not discriminate on the basis of national origin or citizenship status as provided under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Employees and applicants shall not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion, or discrimination because they have engaged in or may engage in any of the following activities: Filing a complaint; Assisting or participating in an investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of the affirmative action provisions of Section 503, VEVRAA, or any other Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or protected veterans; Opposing any act or practice made unlawful by Section 503, VEVRAA, or their implementing regulations in this part, or any other Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities or protected veterans; or Exercising any other right protected by section 503, VEVRAA or their implementing regulations. SailPoint will also provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified employee or applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of our business. SailPoint’s affirmative action program contains an audit and reporting system which enables us to measure the effectiveness of our program, indicate any need for remedial action, determine the degree to which our objectives have been attained, determine whether protected veterans and individuals with disabilities had had the opportunity to participate in company-sponsored activities, measure our compliance with the program’s specific obligations, and document actions taken to comply with these obligations.