DevOps Team Lead

Who are we? 

Checkmarx is the leader in application security and ensures that enterprises worldwide can secure their application development from code to cloud. Our consolidated platform and services address the needs of enterprises by improving security and reducing TCO, while simultaneously building trust between AppSec, developers, and CISOs. At Checkmarx, we believe it’s not just about finding risk, but remediating it across the entire application footprint and software supply chain with one seamless process for all relevant stakeholders.   

We are honored to serve more than 1,800 customers, which includes 40 percent of all Fortune 100 companies including Siemens, Airbus, SalesForce, Stellantis, Adidas, Wal-Mart and Sanofi.   

What are we looking for? 

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Team Lead to lead our CD efforts. 

We are looking for someone with proven experience in managing a team while keeping the work plans on track together with great service orientation and ability to address stressful day to day. 

We need a person with a solid DevOps vision and approach to enable, promote and implement it across R&D organization. 

Ability to keep team in focus, strong planning and organizing abilities, stay stick to priorities, keep all tasks documented. 

How will you make an impact?​

In this role you will be responsible for:​ 

• Production and delivery to multiple AWS kubernetes environments
• Lead, teach, grow a team of experienced DevOps engineers 
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase the efficiency of the DevOps team. 
• Provide technical leadership to the DevOps team, including mentoring and coaching. 
• Work closely with the engineering teams to define infrastructure needs and provide them with DevOps support and training. 
• Research and integrate new technologies into our stack 
• Create and maintain technical documentation 
• Manage, monitor, scale, and troubleshoot a distributed highly scalable, highly available, customer-facing software stack 
• Mentor and coach others in the cloud and DevOps tools and practices 

What is needed to succeed? 

• Proven experience managing a team of at least three people for a minimum of two years
• Strong project management capabilities
• AWS 
• K8S 
• GitOps ArgoCD 
• Experience with leading, mentoring, and developing a team 
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of AWS Cloud services 
• Experience in infrastructure troubleshooting practices using observability tools - advantage to ElasticSearch and Prometheus + Grafana. 
• Competent experience with build automation tools such as IaC, Jenkins, CircleCI, jFrog, Terraform and similar 
• Vast experience with K8s deployments, maintenance, and troubleshooting 
• Administration level of knowledge of Linux server administration 
• Experience in CI/CD methodologies. 

Desired qualifications:​ 

• Good communication and interpersonal skills 
• Team and tech leader, innovative and creative, able to see the “big picture” and take part in shaping the product 
• Ability to build, promote and implement the DevOps vision across R&D teams 
• Good spoken English. Ability to have a technical discussion in English. 

Checkmarx offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, competitive compensation, great work-life balance, as well as great benefits and perks throughout the year. Checkmarx is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.