Sectigo
trust infrastructure
DevOpsEngineer(Senior-PrincipalLevels)
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“DevOps Engineer (Senior-Principal Levels) at Sectigo. Skills: DevOps, SRE, production infrastructure engineering, distributed systems, high availability, resilience, observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release systems, Infrastructure-as-Code, performance, scaling, system reliability. Define and deliver production readiness. Define what “production‑ready” means for trust infrastructure systems (availability, resilience, SLOs, failure rec”
What You'll Achieve.
turning complex distributed systems into production‑grade services: defining how they are deployed, operated, scaled, and recovered in real-world environments.; delivering a market leading user experience.
Industry & Context.
You think beyond deployment—you think in terms of operability, failure, and recovery; You are disciplined about production reality, not just engineering intent; You enjoy working at the intersection of engineering and operations, shaping systems early
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
experience (Senior / Staff / Principal level) in DevOps, SRE, or production infrastructure engineering is required., Experience operating distributed systems at scale, including high availability and resilience design is required., Deep understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response is required., Experience building CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release systems is required., experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, similar tools) is required., Solid understanding of performance, scaling, and system reliability principles is required., Ability to work closely with engineering teams to influence system design—not just operate systems after the fact is required.
Nice to Have
Experience working with security-critical or trust infrastructure systems is strongly preferred., Experience collaborating in open-source or cross-organization environments is strongly preferred., Exposure to PKI, certificate lifecycle systems, or high-correctness platforms is strongly preferred., Experience operating systems with strict availability and correctness requirements is strongly preferred., Ability to lead through influence rather than authority., Clear communication skills and technical judgment., Experience scaling multi‑tenant SaaS platforms., Database and storage performance expertise., Multi‑region or globally distributed system experience., Background working closely with SRE or platform teams.
What You'll Do.
Define and deliver production readiness
Define what “production‑ready” means for trust infrastructure systems (availability
Build and enforce observability standards (metrics
alerting) aligned to real operational needs
Establish operational guardrails that prevent demo-to-production drift
Design and implement deployment pipelines
and rollback mechanisms
Build Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for repeatable
reliable system deployment
Ensure systems are portable and deployable beyond single environments or cloud-native assumptions
Design and execute load
and failure testing to validate system behavior under real conditions
Implement and test multi-region
and disaster recovery strategies
Continuously validate capacity
and degradation patterns
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with engineering and architecture to ensure that production readiness is not an afterthought, but a core design input.; Collaboration across the broader ecosystem and engagement with upstream components to help shape how modern trust infrastructure is actually operated in production.; Work closely with backend and architecture teams to integrate operational concerns into system design from day one.; Collaborate with ecosystem partners and upstream components to align on production operability requirements.; Ensure external dependencies and upstream components meet real-world operational constraints.; Ability to work closely with engineering teams to influence system design—not just operate systems after the fact is required.; Experience collaborating in open-source or cross-organization environments is strongly preferred.; Background working closely with SRE or platform teams.
Communication Scope
Clear communication skills and technical judgment.
Full Job Description
At Sectigo, we align around our mission and pride ourselves in helping thousands of customers sleep better at night. Sectigo is the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), delivering comprehensive solutions that secure human and machine identities for the world’s largest brands. Sectigo’s automated, cloud-native CLM platform issues and manages digital certificates across all certificate authorities (CAs) to simplify and improve security protocols within the enterprise. Sectigo is one of the largest, longest-standing, and most reputable CAs with more than 700,000 customers and two decades of delivering unparalleled digital trust. “When people think Online trust management, they think Sectigo because we offer our customers unparalleled peace of mind.” How we show up with each other and our customers every day is just as important, and we win as #OneSectigo by living out our core values - S upport, E xcellence, C ommunication, T eamwork, I ntegrity, G rowth and O penness. We are committed to investing in our diverse teams where everyone understands their role and how they support our strategic goals, we drive operational excellence through scale and efficiency, and we strive to delight our customers and become the market leader in our industry. If you aspire to join a driven team that holds each other accountable to meeting our lofty goals and you’d like to be part of our growth story in delivering a market leading user experience, we’d like to talk to you. We are building next‑generation trust infrastructure —high‑performance systems that power certificate lifecycle and emerging industry trust models. We are looking for Senior to Principal level DevOps Engineers who focus on turning complex distributed systems into production‑grade services : defining how they are deployed, operated, scaled, and recovered in real-world environments. These systems require high correctness, resilience, and operational discipline from day one. You will work cl
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