Lead DevOps Engineer

Point Wild helps customers monitor manage and protect against the risks associated with their identities and personal information in a digital world. Backed by WndrCo Warburg Pincus and General Catalyst Point Wild is dedicated to creating the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. Our vision is to become THE go-to resource for every cyber protection need individuals may face - today and in the future. Join us for the ride! We’re looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to architect automate and lead our cloud infrastructure and continuous delivery strategy on Google Cloud. In this role you will own the reliability scalability and security of our production environments ensuring zero-downtime operations and seamless deployment pipelines. You will drive our DevOps practices forward by codifying infrastructure automating release management and enforcing strict security and compliance standards. We are a high-trust outcome-focused team that moves quickly to solve complex large-scale infrastructure and operational challenges on GCP.

Core Responsibilities

GCP Infrastructure & Architecture Architect deploy and manage highly available fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Maintain and scale declarative infrastructure using Terraform across a multi-hundred-file estate enforcing GitOps workflows with Atlantis. CI/CD Pipeline Automation Build maintain and optimize robust automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery using GitHub Actions Jenkins and ArgoCD. Networking & Traffic Management Manage enterprise networking perimeters service mesh architectures (Istio mTLS VirtualServices) and API Gateways (Kong) for secure ingress egress and microservices traffic. System Observability & Reliability Implement comprehensive telemetry log aggregation and alerting to ensure high availability optimal resource utilization and fast incident response. Security Compliance & Operations Enforce strict security postures (VPC-SC IAM Org Policies) manage identity and secrets storage maintain compliance standards (such as SOC2) and participate in the operational on-call rotation.

What you bring

to the table Deep GCP & Kubernetes Mastery Senior/Lead level experience operating production workloads on GCP and GKE (cluster topology Helm Kustomize and ArgoCD). Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Expert-level Terraform skills with extensive experience running GitOps workflows at scale (specifically via Atlantis). CI/CD Expertise Strong track record of designing building and maintaining multi-stage automated deployment pipelines. Networking & Service Mesh High proficiency with Istio (VirtualServices mTLS sidecar injection) and API Gateways (specifically Kong). Enterprise Security & Identity Hands-on experience enforcing enterprise-grade security and secret management ( Auth0 Dex ESO SOPS VPC-SC IAM Database & Datastore Familiarity Solid operational comfort with Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) BigQuery and in-cluster datastores like Elasticsearch or ClickHouse. At least an upper-intermediate level of spoken and written English. It would be great if you also had Automation Savvy Experience with Ansible for host configuration cluster bootstrapping and disaster recovery. Advanced Certifications GCP Professional Cloud Architect GCP Professional Security Engineer or Kubernetes certifications (CKA / CKS). Telemetry & Monitoring Practical experience with Loki Grafana or ClickHouse for centralized logging and metrics. As part of Point Wild you will Solve real customer problems . Point Wild’s point solutions allow consumers to address their immediate cyber protection needs. Our mandate is to continuously anticipate our customers’ evolving digital security needs to create best-in-class solutions aimed at keeping them safe. See your impact. We are a scrappy nimble organization where individual contributions are needed and valued. You will see your impact every day. Accelerate your career. As we expand you will have the opportunity to learn new technologies products and markets in a fast-paced growth-oriented environment. Most importantly you’ll get to work with other talented people at a company where people matter. If you want to put your fingerprint on an organization and leapfrog your growth this is the place for you. In keeping with our beliefs and goals no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race color ancestry national origin religion age gender marital domestic partner status sexual orientation gender identity disability status or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination or harassment based on “protected categories” Point Wild is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome. Whether blatant or hidden barriers to success have no place at Point Wild. Important privacy information for United States based job applicants can be found here