Senior Production Engineer - hybrid in Santa Clara, CA

About CyberArk

CyberArk, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With Identity Security, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere. Learn more at cyberark.com.

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The Production Engineering team is responsible for building, scaling, and operating the cloud platform for CyberArk’s machine identity security products. Our solutions are trusted by the world’s largest organizations to protect and manage TLS machine identities, SSH machine identities, and Code signing identities.

As a Senior Production Engineer at CyberArk, you will play a critical role in ensuring reliability and scalability. Your responsibilities will include:

• Architecting and Operating: Designing, building, and maintaining the highly available Cloud Infrastructure platform for CyberArk Certificate Manager with a focus on scalability and resilience.
• Pipeline Engineering: enhancing and optimizing the CI/CD ecosystem to ensure fast, secure, and reliable software delivery.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborating closely with development teams to advocate for SRE best practices, observability, and cloud-native design patterns.
• Automation: Driving "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) initiatives to eliminate manual toil and improve system consistency.
 

The ideal candidate will possess:
• 3-6 years of relevant work experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Cloud Proficiency: Strong hands-on experience architecting and managing infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP (multi-cloud experience is a plus).
• Container Orchestration: Advanced expertise in managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, or GKE), including troubleshooting complex cluster issues.
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi.
• CI/CD Mastery: proven experience designing and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions).
• Coding Skills: Strong proficiency in scripting and software development using Python or Go for automation and tooling.
• Operational Excellence: Extensive experience in 24/7 production environments, including incident management, on-call rotation, and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Networking & Systems: Solid understanding of Linux system administration and networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, Load Balancing, VPC peering, and mTLS).

What sets you apart?
• A proactive "Security-First" mindset, familiar with DevSecOps practices.
• Ability to adapt to rapid changes and mentor junior engineers on cloud technologies.
• Professional certifications (CKA/CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, or Azure Administrator).
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

CyberArk is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. 

The salary range for this position is $155,000 – $194,000/year, plus discretionary bonus, which will be based on the employee’s performance and equity. Base pay may also vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits.