Vacancy

Background

Based in Cheshire in the United Kingdom, PortSwigger is a global leader in the cybersecurity sector. Our cutting-edge software is used by over 50,000 customers in 150 countries to help them secure their web applications. We go beyond just selling software. Our educational and research output is used by millions of people globally to learn about web security.

We first made our name with Burp Suite, the leading software for web penetration testing. We have since broadened our focus with the release of Burp Suite Enterprise Edition, which is aimed at software development teams and large organizations with extensive web assets to defend, and the Web Security Academy. Our software products include our customer-facing website, the Customer Success Platform.

We are a fun group of people from a diverse range of backgrounds, who pull together to produce amazing outcomes for our customers. We achieve this by continually investing in and supporting our people, giving them opportunities to flourish in our supportive and collaborative working environment.

About you

You genuinely enjoy interacting with teammates from across the business and have a knack for communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

You like to create scalable, supportable, and cost effective solutions that help us to deliver services to both internal and external customers.

You're comfortable pairing with software engineers to design, build and support our Cloud and DevOps platforms.

You can design and architect enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and can seamlessly administer application servers, web servers, and databases.

You have a deep understanding of cloud and virtualization platforms, infrastructure automation, and application hosting technologies.

You regularly apply DevOps philosophy, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code to your work and guide development teams in their approach to infrastructure, cloud and operations.

You have a history working with server virtualization, IaaS and PaaS cloud, Infrastructure provisioning, and configuration management tools.

You can write scripts using at least one scripting language and are comfortable with building Container, Kubernetes, Linux and Windows based systems.

Experience with a variety of continuous integration tools with different technology stacks.

You understand how important the "ilities" are in the design and operation of systems.

Necessary skills and experience

Robust knowledge of at least one cloud provider AWS, Azure or GCP (PortSwigger currently predominantly uses AWS).

Proven track record of building infrastructure as code.

Experience with containerization principles and frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

Experience with monitoring and alerting tools.

Experience in working with Agile methodologies and DevOps principles.

Be well rewarded

We firmly believe in paying people what they're worth to us, not just what we can get away with or what they could earn elsewhere. We pay excellent salaries above the normal market level, and this is always determined based on your individual skills and contribution. In addition to a generous base salary, we offer share options and a comprehensive benefits package.