Axon

Senior Security Operations Engineer II

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3 months ago
Seattle, WA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

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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