About Us

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.

Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at .

Role Summary

As a DevOps Engineer at Sophos, you will be instrumental in evolving our development lifecycle. You will facilitate, automate, and scale the deployment, configuration, and monitoring of our large-scale cloud-native SaaS and on-premises applications.

By leveraging your expertise in AWS and Kubernetes, you will streamline our CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, frequent, and reliable automated builds. Beyond technical implementation, you will act as a mentor—teaching and assisting engineering teams to build, manage, and monitor high-performance cloud applications with increased agility.

What you will do

Platform Management: Take ownership of the management and ongoing maintenance of our Kubernetes platforms.

Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with multiple development squads to identify requirements for building and deploying complex applications.

AWS Automation: Design and implement the automated deployment and configuration of cloud-application workloads within AWS.

Observability: Develop, advise on, and troubleshoot monitoring and management frameworks for cloud-resident workloads.

Consultancy: Assist engineering teams in architecting manageable, scalable, and highly observable cloud-native applications.

Incident Resolution: Troubleshoot and resolve environment and configuration issues. Analyse logs and monitoring data to proactively communicate potential risks to stakeholders.

Environment Orchestration: Manage and communicate the state, versioning, and availability of various environments to Developers, QA, and wider team members.

Tooling Excellence: Maintain and optimise shared development tools for branching, tagging, building, releasing, and reporting.

Willingness to provide on-call support on weekend (once in a month)

What you will bring

Essential:

6+ years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer.
Containerisation: Practical experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, or Rancher.

Technical Background: Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar languages to automate repetitive tasks.

Linux Mastery: Proficiency with Linux distributions (e.g., Ubuntu, CentOS).

CI/CD: A deep understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery principles.

AWS Expertise: A broad knowledge of AWS services, specifically CloudFormation, EC2, ECS, and EKS.

Version Control: Expert use of Git and GitHub within a distributed team environment.

Monitoring & Alerting: Strong understanding of monitoring and alerting using tools like PagerDuty, Zabbix, and LogicMonitor for system health visibility, alerting, and incident response.

Desirable

Certification: CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps Administration.

Ansible experience

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with CloudFormation or Terraform.

Soft Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions both internally and externally.

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Ready to Join Us?

At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.

What's Great About Sophos?

· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.

· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit

· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy

· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities

· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint

· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp

· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge

· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

Our Commitment To You

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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