Contract Solutions Engineer Consultant

There are 2 actors on a network, people and machines. Just as usernames and passwords are used by people to access machines, machine identities are used by machines to identify and access each other. Venafi is the inventor of the technology that manages and protects machine identities, the most important security initiative in our Global 5000 customers. We are Warriors!
Are you passionate about making a positive impact and protecting the world from cybercriminals? If so, you may be a natural Venafi Warrior!
How you'll be protecting the world:
As a Solutions Engineer Contract Consultant you will be part of the Jetstack Consult team within Venafi, a Cloud Native Kubernetes Platform Engineering professional service team that prides itself on helping startups and enterprises alike in their path to modern Cloud Native maturity.
This role is a contract position that will guide and support one of our enterprise financial clients in their adoption of Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies. As part of this team, you will help accelerate this project and provide our client with confidence in their operations.
As a Solution Engineer, you will architect, design, and implement Kubernetes-based solutions and support an internal platform product for our enterprise client. You will direct 50% of your time to hands on coding and assembling of platform teams and 50% of your time working directly with customers, onsite and remote. You may be asked to deliver Kubernetes training or workshops to a wide variety of audiences and other engineers on the possibilities they can unlock with Kubernetes.
The ideal Venafi Warrior will be armed with:

• A proven track record of helping customers succeed, ideally in an enterprise setting

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and the cloud native ecosystem

• Interest in working with cutting-edge technology in fast-growing open-source communities.

• In-depth knowledge of Golang or one or more programming languages
• Experience using GCP (GKE clusters, managed compute instances, VPC networking, load balancing)
• Experience building and operating a platform to manage fleets of Kubernetes clusters that enable product teams to build and deploy containerised workloads
• Experience engaging with and supporting ongoing operations on the platform to proactively respond to code changes needed to comply with security updates.
• High level of comfort in front of a whiteboard explaining concepts to a customer implementing complex and bespoke solutions
• Curiosity and passion for pushing boundaries through innovation and experimental ideas.
• Ability to adapt to circumstances and respond with urgency and pragmatism
• A high degree of emotional intelligence; someone who is approachable and can communicate effectively with everybody

What Sets You Apart?

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) | CNCF
• Kubernetes native Continuous Delivery (ArgoCD Rollouts / FluxCD)
• Implementing workload observability using logging and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, GCP Monitoring)
• GCP Professional Cloud Architect/DevOps/Developer Engineer
• Kubernetes resource configuration tooling (Flux, Tekton, Helm, Kustomize, kpt)
• Infrastructure-as-code provisioning using custom deployment tooling and Terraform

More About Venafi:
Venafi is the undisputed leader in Machine Identity Management. Why? Because we created the category and are light years ahead of anyone that would consider competing! Gartner has recognized Venafi as number one in our space and as it turns out, one is NOT the loneliest number!
Venafi is the inventor of the technology that secures and protects machine identities. The Venafi platform provides visibility, intelligence, and automation for SSL/TLS, IoT, mobile, cloud native, Kubernetes, and SSH machine identity types. Many of the largest organizations in the world use Venafi.
Billions of dollars have been spent protecting usernames and passwords and almost nothing managing machine identities-organizations are just now realizing that managing and protecting machine identities is as important as managing usernames and passwords. The bad guys know this and are using stolen or forged machine identities in their cyberattacks. In fact, Gartner says 50% of network attacks will use machine identities.
Come help us protect the world!
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