Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

HYPR, the Identity Assurance Company, helps organizations create trust in the identity lifecycle.  We are a community of bold thinkers and energetic doers who imagined a brand new approach to identity security and, at the same time, are eliminating a pervasive and persistent 60-year old problem – the password. Since being founded in 2014, the company has grown to be the premium provider of authentication security to marquee brands around the globe and are quickly becoming the recognized leader in Identity Assurance. We are looking for exceptional people with the ambition and the will to positively change the world. If that sounds like you, join us on our mission to create a passwordless world and secure the identity lifecycle.

Your Role and Impact

HYPR, The Identity Assurance Company is focused on having the most comprehensive identity security platform.  We are looking for an experienced, self-motivated DevOps Cloud Engineer to join our growing Infrastructure team and help us achieve our mission!  You’ll be directly involved in driving change across the organization to enable HYPR to achieve new levels of scale and product adoption.

At HYPR, we care about your well-being and we foster a culture of being flexible and adapting to the changing needs of our employees.  We understand that work-life balance is essential in today’s world, and you’ll be empowered to manage the successful outcomes of your workload and to take advantage of our generous vacation policy.

As a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer, you’ll be involved in the full life cycle support of our public cloud SaaS architecture as well as managing our internal server systems.  You’ll have the opportunity to design, plan, build, extend, and support all new and existing cloud infrastructure.  The company’s platform is based on Kubernetes and your experience will be vital to the success of our customers.  Some examples of the internal services we support are code and artifact repositories, CI/CD runners, data warehouse, and tiered development environments.

As we grow we are adding new services and replacing or revamping old ones, and as such you’ll also get to influence the way we adopt the design pillars of the organization: well-architected, secure, operationally efficient, and performant.  We believe AI has, and will continue to change the software industry, and we are weaving into our SDLC.

Our ideal candidate will have strong cloud networking and Linux system skills, an understanding of software deployment methodologies, as well as a keen eye towards automation.  If you have find you have some of these qualifications and are interested in DevOps, but maybe not as strong in other areas, we encourage you to apply.

Our ideal candidate will have strong cloud networking and systems skills, an understanding of software deployment methodologies, as well as a keen eye towards automation. Along with technical requirements, you must have expertise in enabling development and other teams to fully utilize the work that you’ll be doing.  Your experience deploying and maintaining secure production environments with a GitOps mindset using popular DevOps friendly tools will play a critical role within our team.  Your ability to work cross-team and drive change from ideation to implementation and beyond will be a key metric of your success.

We know not everyone will check every box.  If this role excites you and you meet most of the requirements, we'd love to hear from you.

General Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred, strong preference for Computer Science field of study
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience
• Highly proficient in Terraform, such as understanding code organization, patterns and the ability to write reusable modules from scratch
• 2 - 3 years experience writing in Python; higher level languages like Java or Go a plus.
• Hands-on experience with configuring and maintaining resources on AWS
• Solid understanding of deploying to and maintaining container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes; EKS and tools like Helm a plus
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD automation pipelines, with focus on engineering workloads
• Experience monitoring cloud applications and determining critical metrics to track
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals such as VPC, routing, and troubleshooting those in the cloud
• Strong understanding of secret management along with the practice of good security hygiene
• Experience with securing IAM configurations
• Understand security groups and access controls
• Experience with the Agile methodology (Jira knowledge a plus)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Flexible and willing to accept and get behind changes in priorities as necessary
• Ability to take on cross-team projects from ideation all the way to production

The Benefits of Working with HYPR

• Long-term stability within a high-growth sector within identity access automation.
• Our team members have a broad range of talents and skills from different technology sectors. You’ll be joining a team of all-stars who consistently deliver the highest quality in all areas of customer service and success.
• Empowerment to manage your schedule, commitments, and deliverables so that you can manage your work life balance.
• A mission driven culture. At HYPR you will never be spinning your wheels on tasks that won’t make an impact. Everything we develop is cutting edge and vital to the success and security of our clients.
• An emphasis on collaboration and access to giants in the industry. We achieve our best because we employ the best.

Additional Information

• Full Time Opportunity: Yes
• The core meeting hours for this position are from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Attendance is required for meetings scheduled between 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM. These meetings may be attended remotely via Zoom. Outside of these scheduled meetings, working hours are flexible. 
• This position is a hybrid role. Employees are required to work in the office a minimum of two days per week—specifically Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The remaining workdays offer flexible remote options.

As the premium provider of authentication security, HYPR is committed to preventing identity fraud by safely and accurately verifying the identities of our employees. Accordingly, all new employees are required to participate in an automated identity verification process, which includes document verification, location detection, and facial recognition, on their first day of employment with the Company.  To learn more about this identity verification process,  please contact [email protected].

HYPR is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.