2 months ago
Base Salary
$169k - $311k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead reviews and continuous improvement of Axon’s Kubernetes platforms for security, resilience, architecture, and operational excellence.
- Define and execute technical strategy for securing cloud-native infrastructure across Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure.
- Modernize security application delivery through improved deployment architecture, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Design and implement automated security guardrails and controls across CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
- Architect, provision, and secure highly available infrastructure for critical security services.
- Establish Kubernetes and container security standards covering cluster hardening, workload security, access controls, network controls, admission policies, image security, and runtime protection.
- Partner with SRE, platform engineering, product security, and development teams to embed security into architecture and workflows.
- Provide technical leadership during complex security and infrastructure incidents, including root cause analysis and durable remediation.
- Improve security observability through telemetry, logging, metrics, detection, alerting, automation, and operational resilience.
- Build internal security tooling, runbooks, and self-service capabilities to reduce operational toil.
- Mentor engineers and influence technical direction and engineering standards across teams.
- Apply PKI and certificate management expertise to strengthen security architecture where applicable.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in security engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, or related roles.
- Expert-level hands-on Kubernetes experience, including architecture, provisioning, upgrades, networking, RBAC, policy enforcement, workload security, and production operations at scale.
- Deep expertise in AWS and/or Azure and infrastructure-as-code for highly available, secure cloud infrastructure.
- Strong software engineering and automation skills using Go, Python, or similar languages.
- Extensive experience with CI/CD and application deployment architecture, container security, registries, vulnerability scanning, and software supply-chain security.
- Knowledge of cloud-native security architecture, including network security, secrets management, workload identity, policy enforcement, and runtime protection.
- Experience with Terraform, Helm, GitOps, or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and leading responses to high-impact security, infrastructure, and production incidents.
- Experience designing security observability capabilities across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
- Ability to provide technical leadership across organizational boundaries, mentor senior engineers, and establish engineering standards.
- Strong communication skills for translating complex security and infrastructure issues into technical direction and engineering plans.
- Experience with PKI, certificate management, or machine identity at scale is preferred.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and 401(k) with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Robust parental leave policy
- Award-winning office/working environment
- Opportunities to ride along with police officers and observe technology in real-life situations
- On-site locations in Seattle, Scottsdale, Boston, Atlanta, and San Francisco
About Axon
Axon builds TASER energy devices, body and in-car cameras, sensors, and a cloud software suite for managing evidence, records, and real-time operations used by law enforcement, public safety agencies, and enterprises. Revenue comes from hardware sales bundled with SaaS subscriptions and services across its Axon Evidence and Records platforms. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Axon Enterprise is a NASDAQ-listed public company serving police departments and government customers globally.