Release Engineer, Platform Engineering (Gerald)

About Netskope

Today, there's more data and users outside the enterprise than inside, causing the network perimeter as we know it to dissolve. We realized a new perimeter was needed, one that is built in the cloud and follows and protects data wherever it goes, so we started Netskope to redefine Cloud, Network and Data Security.

Since 2012, we have built the market-leading cloud security company and an award-winning culture powered by hundreds of employees spread across offices in Santa Clara, St. Louis, Bangalore, London, Paris, Melbourne, Taipei, and Tokyo. Our core values are openness, honesty, and transparency, and we purposely developed our open desk layouts and large meeting spaces to support and promote partnerships, collaboration, and teamwork. From catered lunches and office celebrations to employee recognition events and social professional groups such as the Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON), we strive to keep work fun, supportive and interactive. Visit us at Netskope Careers. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter@Netskope.

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled Release Engineer with a passion for automation, kubernetes and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD). If you are the successful candidate, you will be a key contributor to the team, focusing on optimizing our deployment pipelines and operational efficiency.

You will play a critical role in automating system deployment and maintenance, reducing manual effort, and improving the speed and quality of our software releases. You will collaborate closely with development and operations teams to foster a culture of shared ownership and streamlined processes.

Together with the team, you will be responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the development lifecycle, opportunities for automation to reduce toil, and other release engineering-focused initiatives for applications and infrastructure within your ownership.

What’s in it for you

As a Release Engineer on Netskope's Platform Engineering team, you will be instrumental in the full software delivery lifecycle. This role is an opportunity to drive key automation initiatives and to make a major impact for the business and its customers by putting your stamp on critical release processes at Netskope. You will be able to exercise your problem-solving skills to prioritize and drive improvements in our CI/CD processes and infrastructure management, and have a chance to demonstrate ownership while growing your technical expertise.

Netskope offers challenging work in distributed systems at scale that only a handful of businesses can match. With a globally distributed private cloud footprint exceeding 120 points of presence, working within the Netskope cloud offers unique challenges in many domains including: performance and scalability, high availability, observability and resiliency. We maintain a fast-paced startup culture within a rapidly growing business, and there will never be a lack of variety in your career at Netskope.

What you will be doing

• Collaborate with service teams to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to facilitate rapid and reliable software releases.

• Automate operational tasks and reduce manual toil through development of tooling and platforms.

• Implement observability and resiliency measures in pipelines to measure post-deploy status and trigger automated remediation of deployment issues.

• Leverage AI and learn new skills to enhance engineering productivity and grow within the organization.

• Write and maintain internal documentation.

Required skills and experience

• 2+ years of experience working in a software organization in a Dev, Ops, DevOps, SRE or similar role.

• Very strong skills and experience with containerization (Docker), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker or similar).

• Strong Python scripting abilities for automation and tooling.

• History of leveraging AI to enhance productivity and outcomes.

• Familiarity working with Linux CLI tools and Linux-based tech stacks.

• Experience maintaining infrastructure in a private, public (GCP, AWS, etc.), or on-prem cloud environment.

• Experience with configuration management and IaC tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform, or similar.

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools, such as Prometheus, including exporters and custom metrics.

• Established history of working proactively and independently to gather and define requirements, document release plans and build pipelines for complex multi-team projects.

• Clear written and verbal communication, with a focus on documentation and collaboration.

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred.

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