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Senior DevOps Engineer

OpenVPN Inc. is a global leader in network security, offering secure remote access, site-to-site VPN, and SaaS access solutions for businesses of all sizes. Their open-source protocol is an industry standard for accessing private information securely, ensuring safe access to internal data and delivering zero-trust network access.

OpenVPN

Employee count: 51-200

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the infrastructure strategy and automation behind our Enterprise VPN and Zero Trust networking platform. This role is essential to ensuring product services and customer-deployed gateways are secure, scalable, and always-on.

You’ll own our infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, system observability, and secure deployment practices across public-hosted and customer-deployed environments.

As a key member of the founding team, you’ll shape our technical strategy, engineering practices, and system resilience. Your decisions will influence both product direction and company growth.

Requirements

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker;

  • Operate and optimize Linux-based environments running gateways and services

  • Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) for backend and desktop applications

  • Automate deployment, monitoring, and security hardening of VPN infrastructure

  • Manage secrets, TLS certificates, firewall rules, and secure service configurations

  • Define and enforce observability practices (dashboards, alerts, metrics, disaster recovery)

  • Contribute to incident response and live site operations, including root cause analysis and remediation

  • Support internal dev environments, onboarding flows, and infrastructure for developer productivity

  • Collaborate with engineers to integrate DevSecOps principles into build and deployment workflows

Required Qualifications:

  • 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles

  • Deep knowledge of Linux/Unix systems administration

  • Strong experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud providers (AWS required; GCP or Azure a plus)

  • Experience deploying and managing high-availability, distributed, and multi-tenant systems

  • Familiarity with CI/CD best practices, Git-based workflows, and build/release automation

  • Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, VPNs, routing, firewalls, DNS, TLS, etc)

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.)

  • Understanding of the full software lifecycle: standards, version control, testing, release, and operations

  • Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Bash, or Go)

  • Exposure to AI Ops tools and techniques (log correlation, anomaly detection, predictive scaling)

Optional, but Good to Have:

  • Experience with OpenVPN or other network tunneling/security tools

  • Familiarity with Cloudflare (i.e. DNS, WAF, Zero Trust configuration)

  • Exposure to DevSecOps practices, including secrets management, policy-as-code, and vulnerability scanning

  • Experience deploying or managing SQL and NoSQL systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB)

  • Familiarity with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry

  • Experience with security event logging, anomaly detection, or compliance logging

  • Experience with platforms like Datadog APM, New Relic, Splunk, or custom ML-based monitoring

  • Experience mentoring or leading junior engineers or cross-functional infrastructure efforts

  • Knowledge of enterprise deployment models, network segmentation, and policy-based access control

  • Experience in cybersecurity and/or startups

Our philosophy is that we are a small, close-knit team, and we care deeply about you:

  • Competitive pay rates

  • Fully remote work environments

  • Self-managed time off

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Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Location requirements

Open to candidates from all countries.

Hiring timezones

Worldwide

About OpenVPN

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We are OpenVPN Inc., and we're passionate about building a more secure internet. Our mission is to connect your world securely by providing a safer, more secure experience online. We understand that in today's digital landscape, cybersecurity threats have evolved into a core business challenge demanding executive attention at the highest levels. The rapid rise of ransomware attacks, supply chain vulnerabilities, and data breaches has created an environment of persistent uncertainty. That's why we're here to bring simple, flexible, and cost-effective secure remote access to companies of all sizes, regardless of where their resources are located.

Our journey began in 2002, and since then, our award-winning open-source VPN protocol has established itself as a de facto standard in the networking space, with over 60 million downloads. We offer solutions that help organizations easily create secure, virtualized, reliable networks. These networks ensure secure communications between on-premise applications, SaaS applications, a remote workforce, business partners, IoT/IIoT devices, and specialized global applications. We provide two primary secure networking solutions: CloudConnexa™, our managed solution, and Access Server, our self-hosted solution. CloudConnexa™ offers secure communication between an organization's distributed workforce, IoT/IIoT devices, and the online services they rely on daily with a secure virtualized network. Access Server simplifies the rapid deployment of a secure remote access solution with a web-based graphic user interface and built-in OpenVPN Connect Client installer. Both solutions allow you to secure your business at scale and provide a seamless experience for your team, no matter the size. We are recognized as a market-proven leader in virtual private networking by Fortune 500 companies and small businesses alike across the globe, with over 20,000 commercial customers. Our commitment to innovation is demonstrated through regular product releases and achieving SOC 2 compliance, offering updated solutions and enhanced security features. We believe in the power of technology to make a more free, more secure world, and that vision drives our work.

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