DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Big Ideas. Real People.

At our client, they believe that in the right environment and with the right team, talent has no boundaries. This team spirit, together with our drive to always aim high, has quickly earned us unicorn status and established Orca as a global cloud security innovation leader.

We’re looking for driven and talented people to join our mission to change the future of cloud security. If you’re ready to join a global team that inspires and challenges each other every day, now is the time to find your place in our pod.

🏢 About Orca

Why our Client?

High growth: Over the past seven years, Orca has consistently achieved milestones that take other companies a decade or more. We have significantly expanded our team, customer reach, and product capabilities.

Disruptive innovation: Orca’s founders recognized that traditional security approaches were not built for the cloud. They pioneered agentless cloud security technology and continue to advance one of the industry’s most comprehensive cloud security platforms.

Well-capitalized: With a valuation of $1.8 billion, Orca is a cybersecurity unicorn backed by investors including CapitalG, ICONIQ, GGV, and SVCI.

Respectful and transparent culture: Our executives pride themselves on being accessible and openly sharing knowledge. Every employee has an opportunity to help shape the company and the future of cloud security.

🎯 The Role

Our client is looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to build, operate, monitor, and continuously improve the infrastructure supporting our U.S. federal and FedRAMP environments.

You will work with public-cloud infrastructure, production Kubernetes environments, infrastructure as code, CI/CD systems, observability, and security automation. You will also help ensure that Orca’s GovCloud and other relevant environments remain secure, reliable, scalable, and compliant.

This is one of a small number of U.S.-based engineering positions within a global R&D organization. You will work closely with engineering colleagues in Israel and serve as a key technical resource for Orca’s U.S. infrastructure.

The right candidate is a hands-on engineer who can build infrastructure from scratch, independently debug complex production incidents, make sound architectural decisions, and operate effectively in a fast-moving environment.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions that improve new and existing cloud infrastructure.
• Build, support, and operate infrastructure for FedRAMP-authorized environments.
• Ensure the reliable and secure operation of Orca’s AWS GovCloud and other relevant environments.
• Build, administer, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes environments.
• Investigate Kubernetes and infrastructure incidents from initial symptoms through root-cause analysis and permanent remediation.
• Develop reusable infrastructure-as-code components using Terraform.
• Use Ansible to automate configuration, deployment, hardening, and operational processes.
• Build and support development and production environments for Orca’s R&D organization.
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and self-healing capabilities.
• Improve system observability through log analysis, dashboard development, and automated alerts based on established SLOs and SLAs.
• Apply continuous dependency upgrades and remediate vulnerabilities within FedRAMP environments.
• Assess infrastructure and deployment procedures to ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• Respond to system and production issues in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and compliance teams when FedRAMP requirements affect infrastructure or operational decisions.
• Follow Orca’s policies and procedures related to internal privileged-access rights.
• Participate in regular collaboration with Orca’s Israel-based engineering team, including an 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time standup Monday through Thursday.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

You are a U.S. citizen, as required for this FedRAMP environment.

You are based on the U.S. East Coast or can consistently work an East Coast schedule.