Description
Who are we?
Checkmarx is the AI-powered application security leader helping the world’s most security- conscious enterprises secure the software that powers modern life. For more than two decades, our unified platform and services have helped organizations protect human- and AI - generated code from the first line through runtime, reducing risk across applications, cloud, and the software supply chain without slowing innovation.
We’re trusted by 1,600+ customers in 70+ countries, including some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world. Guided by research-led innovation and a developer-first mindset, we help every developer, security team, and enterprise build software that is risk-freeby design.
What are we looking for?
Join our mission to build and scale the engineering platform behind a leading SaaS cybersecurity solution trusted by enterprises worldwide.
We are looking for a passionate DevOps Group Lead. You'll lead a strategic engineering organization responsible for the platforms, infrastructure, and automation that power our software delivery lifecycle. You'll manage four Team Leaders and their engineering teams, driving innovation across CI/CD, Kubernetes, AWS, developer platforms, and cloud operations while enabling fast, secure, and reliable software delivery.
This is a leadership role for someone who combines strong technical expertise with exceptional people leadership and a passion for building high-performing engineering organizations.
How will you make an impact?
- Lead, mentor, and develop 3 Team Leaders and their engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Define and execute the DevOps and Platform Engineering strategy supporting a large-scale SaaS cybersecurity platform.
- Own the architecture, scalability, availability, security, and operational excellence of our cloud infrastructure and engineering platforms.
- Drive the evolution of modern CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and developer self-service capabilities.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Security, Architecture, and R&D leadership to accelerate software delivery while maintaining the highest standards of security and reliability.
- Lead cloud-native initiatives with a strong focus on AWS, Kubernetes, automation, and platform standardization.
- Establish engineering metrics, operational KPIs, SLOs, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.
- Champion DevSecOps best practices and embed security into every stage of the software delivery lifecycle.
- Lead organizational planning, hiring, budgeting, prioritization, and execution while supporting the growth and development of future engineering leaders
Requirements
What is needed to succeed?
Required qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- 3+ years of experience managing multiple engineering teams or Team Leads.
- Proven experience leading engineering organizations supporting large-scale SaaS products.
- Deep expertise with AWS (required), including designing, operating, and optimizing production cloud environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
- Extensive experience designing and operating enterprise-grade CI/CD platforms using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, GitLab CI, or similar technologies.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
- Experience building highly available, secure, and scalable production platforms.
- Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, logging, incident management, and platform reliability.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and cloud security best practices.
- Strong scripting or programming skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar).
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.
- A people-first leader with a passion for coaching leaders, empowering teams, and building a culture of engineering excellence.
Desired qualifications:
- Experience in the cybersecurity industry or building platforms for security-focused SaaS products.
- Experience with GitOps and Argo CD.
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio.
- Experience with multi-cloud environments.
- Familiarity with FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
- Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations.
What we have to offer
Checkmarx offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, competitive compensation, great work-life balance, as well as great benefits and perks throughout the year.
Checkmarx is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
