Axon

Senior Security Operations Engineer II

Axon
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5 months ago
Seattle, WA, USAMid Level / Senior
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Base Salary

$149k - $238k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and operate PKI infrastructure for secure authentication, encryption, and certificate lifecycle management.
  • Manage certificates, secrets, keys, trust stores, and access controls, including issuance, renewal, rotation, and revocation.
  • Build, maintain, and secure Kubernetes clusters hosting PKI and secrets-management services.
  • Automate certificate lifecycle, secrets-management, and infrastructure operations using Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes-native tooling.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot PKI, certificate, secrets, Kubernetes, and distributed infrastructure issues, including root cause analysis and remediation.
  • Integrate PKI and secrets management into cloud-native applications and services in collaboration with SRE, platform, security, and engineering teams.
  • Maintain PKI architecture documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, security best practices, and disaster recovery procedures.
  • Ensure PKI and Kubernetes platforms meet security, reliability, scalability, and compliance requirements.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and operational improvement initiatives.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, SRE, or security engineering roles.
  • Strong production experience managing and securing Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
  • Hands-on experience with PKI platforms, certificate lifecycle management, secrets management, and encryption technologies.
  • Experience with AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, EJBCA, Smallstep, Venafi, or similar cloud-native security solutions.
  • Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, distributed systems, and Kubernetes security best practices.
  • Experience with automation, scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD pipelines for PKI and infrastructure operations.
  • Familiarity with IAM and access management platforms such as Okta, Entra ID, or Keycloak.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting distributed infrastructure and security systems.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, operations, and security teams.

Benefits

  • Hybrid schedule based in Seattle, WA, with onsite work Tuesday through Friday and remote work on Mondays.
  • Competitive salary and 401k with employer match.
  • Discretionary paid time off.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Fitness programs and emotional and mental wellness support.
  • Learning and development programs.
  • Office snacks.

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About Axon

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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