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Sophos is a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, protecting more than 500,000 organizations and millions of consumers in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by threat intelligence, AI and machine learning from SophosLabs and SophosAI, Sophos delivers a broad portfolio of advanced products and services to secure users, networks and endpoints against ransomware, malware, exploits, phishing and the wide range of other cyberattacks.

 Sophos provides a single integrated cloud-based management console, Sophos Central – the centerpiece of an adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem that features a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity vendors. Sophos sells its products and services through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos has major hubs around the globe. More information is available at www.sophos.com

Job purpose

Our core IT infrastructure teams are transitioning to an automation first approach, combining the best practices from DevOps and Infrastructure delivery. As an IT Operations engineer you will be helping build our core automation capability, exploring automated deployment, event-based triggers and Infrastructure as Code (IAC). Like many organizations we have a mix of cloud and legacy technologies, enabling these systems to interact is core part of the IT automation journey.

You will be embedded the core IT infrastructure Team, working with senior engineers and given the tools to succeed in a very fast-paced learning-focused environment.

Main duties

  • Identify automation opportunities which either introduce innovation or reduce engineer effort
  • Build and deployment of infrastructure as code
  • Present and educate the wider team on automation platforms
  • Design and document automation stories
  • Building tooling which helps with the delivery of IT infrastructure, for example automated log file analysis

Skills & Experience

  • Programming skills in Python (preferred)
  • Understanding and awareness of Cybersecurity
  • Ability to learn new skills quickly and apply them to the role
  • Able to work autonomously whilst working collaboratively within the wider team environment

Desirable

  • Experience managing Linux or Windows
  • Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS and PKI
  • System modelling language, for example UML
  • AWS
  • GitHub

What's Great About Sophos?

  • 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 that 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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