About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
The fast-growing NSG DevOps-Buildsystem team is responsible for supporting our NSG Product teams to deliver the build system infrastructure required for the various engineering teams.
As an DevOps-Buildsystem Engineer, you will be responsible for introducing process, tools and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development lifecycle, from coding and deployment to maintenance and updates.
You will be responsible for streamlining development team velocity via stable and robust deployment of CI/CD pipeline process all while ensuring health via monitoring build progress logs, resolving broken build chains and observing dashboard metrics as new instances come online.
What you will do
- Create on-premise buildsystem infrastructure resources using IaC such as Terraform, Helm, Github & Github Actions.
- Hands-on Familiarity with SonarQube and BlackDuck
- Firm understanding of Release Builds and Branch Management approaches
- Contribute to the design and development of robust and resilient CI/CD pipelines for NSG products
- Comfortable working in a Globally dispersed team .
- Build and run enterprise quality DevOps tooling for Engineering teams including, BackStageIO and Grafana.
- Work with engineering functions to develop and deliver innovative solutions to problems found in production.
- Work with your colleagues and other engineering teams to identify areas of opportunity and propose improvements to internal and/or production infrastructure.
- Carry personal responsibility for high quality changes to a live production infrastructure.
- Create estimates and work plans then deliver according to those plans in an agile manner.
- Be part of an on-call rotation; Occasionally participate during, or outside of, working hours in incident resolution as a subject matter expert.
- Occasionally carry out changes outside of normal working hours.
What you will bring
- Minimum 6 year’s experience of buildsystem development and maintenance experience.
- Ability to design, implement and operate automated production class, reliable deployment pipelines.
- Development experience of creating Kubernetes resources using Helm.
- Ability to create from scratch, and modify existing, pipeline scripts using Shell or Python
- Linux systems administration.
- Demonstrable experience of delivering modern DevOps practices for the full development lifecycle.
- Required Technology Stack: GNU Make, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, Artfiactory, SonarQube, BlackDuck, Proxmox, Elasticsearch, BackstageIO, Terraform, Pythoon and Linux Bash Shell Scripting.
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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. Please refer to the location details in our job postings for further information.
· 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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