Senior DevSecOps and IT Manager

Hi,

I’m Nicolas, TestGorilla’s Head of Engineering. We’re a fast-growing HR tech company that helps teams make better hiring decisions faster, bias-free, and based on skills.

Over the past year, we’ve experienced tremendous growth. More than 10,400 companies have replaced CVs with our assessments to screen candidates in an unbiased and data-driven way.

As we scale our efforts in 2024 and beyond, we’re looking for a skilled Senior DevSecOps and IT Manager for our DevSecOps team to join us in building secure, robust, and performant product

What’s in it for you?

• Helping shape a fast-growing HR tech scaleup as an early employee
• Fully remote position with bright, motivated, and friendly colleagues around the world
• €82,423 to €92,158 + Share appreciation rights (SARs)
• Flexible hours and vacation
• Paid parental leave
• Remote working budget: €1,000 per year
• Learning and development budget: 3.5% of base compensation

The job in a nutshell

We are looking for a Senior Engineer Manager to lead our small but effective DevSecOps and IT team of experienced engineers, responsible for developing, designing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, DevOps tools and guidelines, and Security and IT measures.

With your team, you will be responsible for implementing the best practices for provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring of our distributed systems. Your primary goal is to make sure these systems run reliably in a secure cloud environment developed using Infrastructure as Code (IaaC).

You will also play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining security measures to protect our systems and data, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that our security policies and procedures are effective and up to date, guaranteeing compliance with security and privacy standards such as SOC II, ISO 27001, and GDPR, guiding our company through the required audit and certification processes.

Furthermore, you will oversee IT-related tasks including granting/revoking access for on/offboarding team members, securely configuring and maintaining our tools, and keeping the IT asset inventory up to date.

You’ll spend time on the following:

• Lead and mentor a globally distributed team of experienced DevSecOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Raising engineering excellence by implementing the best DevSecOps practices.
• Ensure compliance with industry security and data protection standards and regulations such as GDPR, SOC2, ISO 27001, etc.
• Drive the integration of security practices into the entire software development lifecycle.
• Set the technical vision & direction for design, develop, and continuously improve our cloud infrastructure with a focus on security, reliability, and scalability.
• Oversee the selection, implementation, and management of tools for automation, monitoring, and security, enduring the continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines.
• Oversee our organization-wide IT management.
• You will oversee our incident management duties to help troubleshoot and follow up on incidents that require structural fixes.

Here's what we are looking for:

• You are inspired by our mission to put one billion people in dream jobs
• You are fully aligned with our values
• You are an excellent problem solver, with a flexible, can-do attitude, happy to put your hand to anything
• Proven experience as a Security, System, DevOps Engineer, or in a similar role.
• You have strong knowledge of automation and infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• You have experience working with complex CI/CD pipelines for production releases in a microservices-based architecture
• You have a deep understanding of deployment and monitoring strategies for reliable, highly scalable, and robust cloud infrastructure
• You are an expert on cloud and containerization technologies such as AWS and Docker
• Strong knowledge of security technologies, VPNs, intrusion detection systems, and encryption protocols.
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills. You can validate your decisions and communicate them clearly
• You are comfortable in an ambiguous, ever-changing startup environment.

We typically expect candidates with at least 7 years of experience in System, Operation, DevSecOps, or similar and at least 2 years in Management or Leadership roles to have the skills mentioned above.

Bonus points if…

• You have experience working in a SaaS company and a fast-growing startup
• You have experience leading teams in a remote, asynchronous, multicultural work setting

About TestGorilla

At TestGorilla, we envision a world where everyone has their dream job. To achieve this, employers and employees need to have the right information about each other.

We started in 2020 by building a screening platform that enables employers to evaluate candidates in the skills that matter most for success in a role. Our product replaces subjective, incomplete, and often inflated CVs with objective, reliable, and fair test results measuring aptitude, practical job skills, motivation, and culture add.

Improving and expanding this platform is currently our core focus, but it’s only the beginning of our journey to get everyone their dream job. Over time, we will launch more products that support this mission.

We have gained $70m in Series A funding from the venture-capital firms Atomico and Balderton Capital, and our growth is on target to continue exponentially. Chances are you’re familiar with some of our biggest customers, like Sony, PepsiCo, H&M, Deloitte, Bain & Company, Oracle, Revolut, and the UK’s National Health Service.

We work remotely, spread across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Interested?

We don’t offer rainbow glitter unicorns or dog-friendly offices (we literally don’t have an office), but we do offer real people, solid core values, and a product meant to give everyone a fair, unbiased chance at their dream jobs.

Here at TestGorilla, we eat our own dog food. We use our assessment platform to make sure we make the best hiring decisions faster and bias-free.

So if this role sounds like a good fit for you, I’d like you to take an assessment so we can get a better idea about whether you would fit the role. It’s also a great opportunity for you to get to know our product!

If you’re hired, I’ll do everything I can to help you succeed at TestGorilla and throughout the rest of your career.