Knostic is the world’s first provider of need-to-know access controls for Generative AI. We end LLM oversharing. RSA Launch Pad finalist, 2024, and Black Hat Startup winner for 2024.

We seek an experienced and passionate DevOps Engineering Lead to join our growing team. In this role, you will build and maintain the infrastructure and processes that empower our engineering team to deliver high-quality software quickly and reliably. You will play a critical role in optimizing our cloud infrastructure, ensuring system scalability and reliability, and implementing robust security measures. If you are a highly motivated individual with a strong understanding of DevOps principles and a passion for automation, we encourage you to apply!

This is your chance to join Knostic's core engineering team and contribute to our mission to ensure a safer world powered by AI.

Responsibilities

• Build and Maintain CI/CD Pipelines: Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to ensure fast, reliable, and automated deployments across multiple environments.
• Optimize System Scalability and Reliability: Automate scaling processes, manage load balancing, and monitor system health to handle growing traffic and ensure high availability.
• Platform Management: Manage and optimize our Kubernetes (K8S) infrastructure, ensuring efficient resource utilization and application performance.
• Cost Optimization: Track, audit, and optimize cloud resource usage across AWS, GCP, and Azure to reduce operational costs.
• Centralize Observability: Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, and tracing systems to improve incident detection, response, and overall system visibility.
• Enhance Security and Compliance: Manage access controls, conduct vulnerability scans, and ensure compliance with industry standards like SOC2 and GDPR.
• MLops / Data Pipelines Infrastructure: Assist our ML engineers in building and maintaining infrastructure to support machine learning operations and data pipelines.
• On-Prem and Marketplace Deployments: Manage and support deployments to on-premises environments and cloud marketplaces.
• Automation Infrastructure: Design and implement infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools like Pulumi and Helm Charts to automate the provisioning and management of our cloud resources.
• Ensure System Resilience: Design, implement, and maintain highly resilient systems in the cloud to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity.
• Disaster Recovery Planning: Define and implement disaster recovery procedures to ensure rapid recovery in the event of system failures or outages.

Qualifications

• Cloud Expertise: Strong experience with AWS (primary), including services like EC2, S3, IAM, EKS, etc.
• CI/CD Mastery: Proven experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Kubernetes Proficiency: Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, deployment strategies, and management tools.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Pulumi for managing infrastructure and Helm Charts for deploying applications on Kubernetes.
• Monitoring and Observability: Familiarity with observability best practices.
• Security Best Practices: Strong understanding of security principles and experience implementing security measures in cloud environments.
• Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in scripting languages like Python or Bash for automation tasks.

• Dynamic Environment Adaptability: Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic start-up environment and can adapt to changing priorities.
• Team Player: A collaborative and supportive team player with a "can do" attitude and a strong work ethic. (see below for more about our Engineering Culture)

Advantages

NOTE: Work is conducted from our office in Tel Aviv.

About Our Engineering Culture

We are a team of highly skilled and experienced professionals who are passionate about our work. We constantly learn and grow, always looking for new and innovative ways to solve problems. We are also committed to supporting each other and working together to achieve our goals.

At our company, we believe that everyone has a valuable contribution to make. We respect each other's opinions and encourage open communication and feedback. We value trust and reliability and are committed to working together as a team to achieve our goals.

We are ego-less and put the team's greater good first. We care for the success of our team and the success of our colleagues. We will always be there for team members who need technical or personal support.

We have a "can do" attitude and can fearlessly walk into the unknown, trusting our skills, experience, and each other. We do not panic and do not let fear or pressure take over our good judgment. We think of innovative, out-of-the-box solutions to overcome obstacles.

We are perpetual learners and train ourselves. We respect each other's opinions and feel secure expressing our feelings and criticism. We fear not speaking up and will want to understand the rationale behind every decision.

We take full ownership of what we are assigned to do and are always proactive about completing assignments. We follow up even when the work seems to have been completed. We learn from our experience with the job and share what we learn.

Knostic is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.