Senior DevOps Engineer

Description
Silverfort is a cyber-security startup that develops a revolutionary identity protection platform. Using patented technology, our product enables strong authentication across entire corporate networks and cloud environments, without any modifications to endpoints and servers. In addition, we use advanced behavior analytics to apply adaptive authentication policies and prevent cyber-attacks in real time.

Our mission is to provide industry-leading unified identity protection solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. We develop cutting-edge cybersecurity technology that solves urgent customer needs today and is also a game changer for years to come.

Silverfort's team includes exceptional researchers, engineers, and technology experts who successfully tackle some of the most complex challenges in cyber-security. Silverfort has happy customers worldwide, strong market validation (including several industry awards), strategic partnerships with the largest security vendors in the world, and significant funding from leading VCs.

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team and help drive the infrastructure and orchestration of our SaaS offering. This is a key role responsible for managing cloud-native environments in Azure, with a strong focus on Kubernetes and modern DevOps practices. As part of our SaaS DevOps team, you'll be responsible for the infrastructure that powers our SaaS platform. You'll help us scale, secure, and operate our cloud-native services, while promoting automation, reliability, and observability throughout the stack.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the cloud infrastructure and orchestration for our SaaS offering in Azure
• Design and manage production-grade Kubernetes environments, ensuring high availability and scalability
• Apply GitOps practices using Argo CD and Argo Rollouts to manage and automate deployments
• Maintain and optimize cloud networking, load balancing, and system observability
• Operate and manage message bus systems such as Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Implement and manage observability tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, ELK, or Coralogix to ensure visibility, alerting, and diagnostics
• Work closely with developers to support delivery pipelines and containerized applications (OCI, Docker)
• Use tools like Terraform, Ansible, Git, Jenkins, Argo, Artifactory, and Nginx to streamline infrastructure operations
• Collaborate within a Scrum team using Jira and the Atlassian stack for planning, tracking, and documentation
• Operate and support a SaaS product in production, including participating in on-call rotations using tools like Opsgenie or PagerDuty

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in cloud-native environments
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including deep understanding of Kubernetes objects and familiarity with the Kubernetes ecosystem (e.g., OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno)
• Good working knowledge of Argo CD and Argo Rollouts
• Proven experience managing containerized applications (OCI, Docker) in production environments
• Proficiency with Terraform, Git, CI/CD tools, and cloud infrastructure, especially in Azure
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture, networking, and system reliability
• Strong scripting or coding abilities (Python, Bash, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative team player

Advantages

• Familiarity with Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID
• Experience building internal tooling or automation frameworks
• Exposure to security-focused tooling (e.g., secret management, policy enforcement)
• Experience supporting always-on SaaS services and distributed systems in production