Software Engineer III

Company: Forcepoint
Location: Austin
Posted on: June 29, 2020

Job Description:

Forcepoint is transforming cybersecurity by focusing on what matters most: understanding peoples intent as they interact with critical data and intellectual property wherever it resides. Our uncompromising systems enable companies to empower employees with unobstructed access to confidential data while protecting intellectual property and simplifying compliance. Based in Austin, Texas, Forcepoint supports more than 20,000 organizations worldwide. For more about Forcepoint, visit and follow us on Twitter at @ForcepointSec. The Cloud Platform team are responsible for the new Converged Security Platform and Dynamic Edge Protection product at Forcepoint. Dynamic Edge Protection is a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) product which delivers tightly integrated security services directly from the cloud. The Cloud Platform team is continuing to grow and is focused on extending cloud platform capabilities and services that provides a modern software delivery model with Forcepoints unique human-centric security capabilities. The successful candidate will play a key role in the automated deployment, scaling, provisioning, integration and management of cloud native services and products within the new Converged Security Platform and Dynamic Edge Protection product. The successful candidate will have a strong passion for technology, be open minded and have strong technical skills to help solve and troubleshoot large scale deployments. The successful candidate will have good organisational skills as well as good written and verbal communication skills, working well with others across group and department boundaries. Responsibilities - Drive detailed design activities by analyzing requirements and high-level designs. - Design, develop and continuously improve automation and processes to enable the deployment, management, configuration, and scaling of services in the cloud. - Working with IT and product management, design and develop integrations between the cloud platform and enterprise business systems which streamline the customer provisioning and onboarding experience. - Design, develop, and integrate monitoring solutions and tools that will automate daily operational activities. - Effective management of software artefacts and services to enable rapid deployment and scaling of cloud services. - Interact with the wider engineering team to design and develop interoperability across systems and processes. - Interface and work well with other engineering groups as part of day to day activities, with a significant focus on remote correspondence. - Assist in the scheduling process by breaking down EPICs and providing estimates for stories and tasks. - Code, review and maintain software for Cloud Services and Application of significant size and complexity working from written requirements and architectural specifications. - Solves production issues that need reproduction, root cause analysis, and coding. - Act as a mentor and leader for other less senior members on the team assisting in career development with the wider leadership team. - Assist in troubleshooting, diagnosing and fixing environment issues. Skills & Qualifications - Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience. - 5+ years software development experience. - Experience in designing and developing RESTful API interfaces - Experience in designing and developing software for large scale systems. - Experience in the deployment of large scale systems. - Experience in Public Cloud deployments using both IaaS and PaaS capabilities. - Experience developing software in python or other programming languages. - Experience with modern software development tools such as Jenkins, Artifactory, Github etc. - Knowledge and some practical experience in managing large scale Linux/Unix platforms. - Knowledge and some practical experience of cloud native technologies and serverless computing such as AWS Lamda and Docker. - Knowledge and some practical experience in AWS, Azure or other Public Cloud providers. - Knowledge and some practical experience of working with logging and monitoring tools such as ELK stack and datadog. - Knowledge and some practical experience of scripting languages and Linux platform tools like bash, perl, awk, sed and grep. - Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Ansible and Terraform. - Knowledge of Data storage technologies such as RDBMS, Key/Value Stores and NoSQL - Solid understanding and experience working with high availability, performant, multi geo located and hybrid cloud environments. - Be detail orientated and able to work independently while managing multiple tasks simultaneously - Have a strong problem management drive to solve issues before they become major problems and stop similar issues in the future. - Prior experience working in a commercial development environment: best practices for development, agile, schedules, processes, defect management, code management & continuous integration environments & formal quality practices. Applicants must hold either an appropriate Stamp 4 Irish work visa or EU/UK passport prior to application .

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