Hi

Im Svetli Engineering Manager at TestGorilla. Were a fastgrowing HR tech startup that helps teams make better hiring decisions faster and biasfree.

Over the past year weve experienced tremendous growth. More than 10400 companies have replaced CVs with our assessments to screen candidates in an unbiased and datadriven way.

As we scale our efforts in 2024 and beyond were looking for a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to help us accelerate the development of our product.

Watch the below video to find out a little more about our hiring process!

Whats in it for you

• Helping shape a fastgrowing HR tech startup as an early employee
• Fully remote position with bright motivated and friendly colleagues around the world
• Share appreciation rights (SARs)
• Flexible hours and asynchronous environment
• Paid parental leave
• Remote working budget: 1000 per year (prorata based on your start date)
• Learning & development budget: 3.5% of base compensation

The job in a nutshell

We are looking for a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to join our engineering department and help us bring our product to Enterprise level maturity. Your work will directly impact hundreds of thousands of users around the world.

As a senior member of the DevSecOps engineering team you will develop and own bestpractice methodologies for provisioning configuration management and monitoring of our distributed systems. Your primary goal is to make sure our systems run reliably and efficiently in a secure cloud environment.

As our company is experiencing high growth youll also be responsible for the scalability of our cloud infrastructure and performing robust capacity planning.

Furthermore you will own and automate ITrelated Security and Compliance tasks like granting/revoking access for on/offboarding team members securely configuring and maintaining our tools keeping the IT asset inventory up to date. You will also collaborate to comply with security and privacy standards such as SOC II ISO 27001 and GDPR.

Youll spend time on the following:

• You will design deploy and continuously improve our cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability scalability and security
• You will contribute to build pipelines with a focus on automation and continuous improvement
• You will perform incident management duties to investigate and follow up on incidents and deliver structural fixes
• You will raise the standard of our engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding testing and deployment
• You will assist in providing organisationwide IT support
• You will guide other teams and departments in implementing security standards across the company and conduct risk management activities
• You will help implement compliance policies and procedures including security patch management for our complete IT assets inventory and our business continuity plan (e.g. backups disaster recovery)
• You will act as a mentor for lessexperienced team members through both your technical knowledge and leadership

Heres 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
• Good Linux & networking knowledge
• You have a deep understanding of deployment and monitoring strategies for reliable highly scalable and robust cloud infrastructure
• You are an expert in cloud and containerization technologies such as AWS and Docker
• You have strong knowledge of automation and infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform etc.
• You have experience working with complex CI/CD pipelines for production releases in a microservicesbased architecture
• You are an organised selfstarter with an ability to follow through on tasks under minimal supervision
• You are comfortable in an ambiguous everchanging startup environment

• You are passionate about improving skills and learning new technologies

• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change
• Youre resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectivesYou have strong written and verbal communication skills. You can validate your decisions and communicate them clearly

We typically expect candidates with at least 4 years of experience in DevOps SRE Platform Engineering or similar positions to have the skills mentioned above.

Bonus points if

• You have experience working in a SaaS company and a fastgrowing startup
• You have experience with Security and Compliance frameworks such as: ISO 27001 SOC2 NIST etc.
• You have experience in at least one programming language such as Python Go Bash etc.

About TestGorilla

At TestGorilla we envision a world where everyone has their dream job. To achieve that 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 culture add and motivation.

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

In 2022 we secured $70m in Series A funding coled by the venture capital firms Atomico and Balderton Capital. The funding brings the companys total investment to $80m following previous investments from Notion Partech and CapitalT. Chances are youre familiar with some of our biggest customers like the UKs National Health Service 3M Sony Oracle PepsiCo Bain & Company and Deloitte.

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

Interested

We dont offer rainbow glitter unicorns or dogfriendly offices (we literally dont 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 do what we say. We use our assessment platform to make sure we make the best hiring decisions faster and biasfree.

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

We encourage diverse applicants from a myriad of educational work and personal backgrounds to apply. We are a parentfriendly/caregiverfriendly employer who recognizes the importance of having a great life outside of work.

If youre hired Ill do everything I can to help you succeed at TestGorilla and throughout the rest of your career.