Forescout Technologies Inc. is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to play a critical role in scaling and securing our Azure-based SaaS platform. You will be part of a team building the trusted foundation for Fortune 100 organizations and government agencies to manage cyber risk.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, secure, and scale our SaaS platform on Azure using services like AKS, Azure Functions, and Azure Service Bus.
- Lead the development and optimization of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release engineering workflows using tools like Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
- Drive SRE principles across the organization, focusing on observability, incident response, availability, performance monitoring, and operational excellence.
- Contribute directly to our FedRAMP compliance readiness efforts, including secure configuration management, audit logging, documentation, and operational procedures.
- Provide Tier 2/3 operational support, including support during maintenance windows and participation in an on-call rotation during North American business hours.
- Support ongoing capacity planning, cost optimization, and scaling efforts for key infrastructure services.
- Maintain and improve production monitoring, alerting, and runbooks to ensure high reliability and rapid-incident response.
- Participate in security, availability, and disaster recovery planning.
- Document operational processes, architectural decisions, and runbooks in a structured, trackable system (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
- 3+ years of experience with Azure Cloud and its native services (especially AKS, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Monitor, Key Vault, etc.).
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for microservices architectures and serverless environments.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm charts, and managing cloud-native workloads.
- Expertise in infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform.
- Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python).
- Deep experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, etc.
- Familiarity with FedRAMP, SOC2, or other security/compliance frameworks (working experience on a FedRAMP-authorized environment is a strong plus).
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and compliance teams.
- Proven ability to work effectively in remote teams across time zones.
Nice to Have
- Experience with GitHub Actions/Workflows, and GitLab CI.
- Experience with distributed databases such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis.
- Exposure to security practices in SaaS environments (encryption, secret management, network hardening).
- Familiarity with change management processes.
- Relevant Azure certifications.
- Prior experience contributing to or leading FedRAMP or other regulated compliance initiatives.
Technical Stack
- Cloud: Azure, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Monitor, Key Vault
- Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
- Platform & Observability: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana
- Languages & Scripting: Bash, Python
- Data Stores: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis
- Tools: Jira, Confluence
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates located in the United States.
Forescout Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.




