DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote (USA)

Role: Full time

Compensation: $95K-$140K

About Surefire Cyber

Surefire Cyber is redefining the incident response model by delivering a swifter, stronger response to cyber incidents such as ransomware, email compromise, malware, data theft, and other threats. Our client-centric approach reduces stress and provides clients the confidence needed to prepare, respond, and recover from cyber incidents – and fortify their cyber resilience after an event.

Surefire Cyber’s approach and delivery are designed by industry veterans who have worked shoulder-to­ shoulder with law firms, insurance carriers, brokers, law enforcement, and impacted organizations.

We are not just building a company. We are forging a culture of collaboration, innovation, and unwavering commitment to the needs of our clients, partners, and colleagues. We are dedicated to fostering an environment where every member feels valued, empowered, and driven towards collective growth. Our values provide our foundation — teamwork, tenacity and empathy.

What Makes You Stand Out

As a DevOps Engineer, you won't just be maintaining pipelines — you’ll be building the digital foundation that supports investigations into ransomware, data breaches, and advanced threats affecting real organizations today.

This is not your average DevOps role. You’ll work in a mission-critical environment where your decisions directly impact our ability to deliver rapid, effective, and scalable forensic services to our clients. You’ll collaborate with top-tier DFIR professionals, security engineers, and leadership, helping shape the tools, systems, and infrastructure that drive digital investigations and threat containment.

We are looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of security and infrastructure — who’s passionate about automation, observability, and building systems that are secure by default. If you're energized by solving infrastructure challenges that support fast-moving teams and care deeply about resilience, scale, and clean design, this is the kind of work that will motivate and inspire you.

• You’ll have a high degree of ownership and autonomy in shaping how infrastructure and automation enable our response operations.
• You’ll be building for security teams, which means your work supports not just uptime and scale, but investigation speed, clarity of evidence, and client trust.
• You’ll be part of a team that values precision, accountability, and collaboration, with no silos between engineering and security operations.

Whether you're coming from a traditional DevOps path or from a more security-focused background, if you're driven by impact and continuous improvement, we want to hear from you.

How You’ll Make An Impact

As a DevOps Engineer at Surefire Cyber, your work will directly support our mission to deliver fast, clear, and confident responses to major cybersecurity incidents. You won’t just be managing systems — you’ll be designing and building the core infrastructure that enables our teams to investigate ransomware attacks, breaches, and other high-impact threats at scale.

You’ll collaborate with experienced incident responders, engineers, and security experts to ensure our platform is resilient, secure, and lightning-fast — even in high-pressure situations. Whether it’s improving observability for threat hunters, automating secure infrastructure deployments, or helping DFIR teams deliver faster results to clients, your work will have a real-world impact from day one.

In this role, you will:

• Help scale a cloud-native, security-first environment designed for speed, security, and resilience.
• Deliver infrastructure that supports mission-critical security workflows and client service.
• Build tooling that automates everything from detection pipelines to forensic workflows.
• Bridge the gap between security engineering and DevOps — bringing stability to rapid response.
• Continuously improve our architecture, deployment pipelines, and observability to support a culture of agility and reliability.

Your Role In Action

The primary responsibilities of the DevOps Engineer will include:

• Ensure the AWS infrastructure supporting our analysis and customer platform is reliable, stable, and secure
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code, configuration repositories, and core services
• Develop and maintain tools that enable DFIR and internal security operations at scale
• Write clean, secure, well-documented code in Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, etc.
• Interact with REST APIs and API-driven security technologies to automate security tasks
• Build dashboards, integrations, and searches/reports to support client delivery teams
• Develop well-crafted processes and maintain clear technical documentation
• Collaborate with internal teams to identify and address technical requirements
• Assist with debugging and developing technical solutions during incident response and forensic analysis activities

Your Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, related field of study or equivalent and practical work experience in cybersecurity engineering, development, or hands-on experience as a cyber operator (Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Malware Analysis, or similarly previously held roles).
• Former professional experience as a DevOps Engineer, or Senior Engineer with a focus on cybersecurity and software engineering.

Required Experience:

• Experience developing with Python (our primary language)
• Foundational experience with AWS (or other cloud providers), specifically:
• EC2, S3, and core services
• AMIs (creation, hardening, lifecycle)
• Networking (VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, security groups, bastion patterns)
• Strong Linux/Unix familiarity (shell usage, systemd, permissions, troubleshooting)
• Experience working in shared codebases:
• Git version control (branching strategies, pull requests)
• CI/CD practices (build/test automation, deployments)

Preferred Experience:

• Experience operating within cloud environments, preferably AWS
• Cloud Site Reliability Engineering and operations experience
• Proficiency with Terraform or similar IaC tools
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with virtualization and containerization technologies
• Experience with Elastic Stack or other distributed systems
• Experience with GitHub/GitLab for code and infrastructure releases
• Strong scripting in Bash, PowerShell, or JavaScript
• Understanding of databases: SQL, NoSQL, Cassandra
• Experience managing observability tools and infrastructure security components
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and technologies
• Experience building tools for security teams or DFIR workflows

Expertise in all these areas is not required, but you should be excited by the opportunity to learn new things and comfortable with working with other team members to expand your knowledge base and experience. We at Surefire Cyber invite you to apply even if you do not feel you have mastery in all the requirements listed on the job description and welcome a further discussion.

Interview Process

• Submit interest to job posting or send resume to careers@surefirecyber.com
• Preliminary phone interview with the Surefire Cyber People Team (approx., 30 minutes)
• Virtual interview with CTO (approx., 45 minutes)
• Virtual interview with other Engineering Team Members (approx., 45 minutes)
• Virtual interview with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), (approx., 30 minutes)

Please note that we reserve the right to modify the interview process at any time

Benefits of Joining Surefire Cyber

• Competitive compensation plan and total rewards package for team members.
• Remote workforce.
• Generous paid time off plan and floating holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employer paid premiums for both team members and their dependents for medical, dental, and vision.
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, 401K matching program, disability, Flexible Spending. Accounts (FSA), Health Savings Account (HSA), Life and ADD benefits.
• Professional development and career advancement opportunities.
• We prioritize employee growth and development through a robust performance management platform to provide ongoing coaching, clear feedback, recognition, and opportunities for career growth.

Surefire Cyber is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex, or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

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