DevOps Engineer

Welcome to the future of cloud networking and security!  

Cato Networks is the first company to converge enterprise networking and security into one centralized and global service that is delivered by cloud. It is led by networking and security pioneer Shlomo Kramer (Check Point, Imperva) and early investor (Palo Alto Networks, Exabeam, Trusteer and more). Cato’s unique technology inspired a brand-new product category, later named “SASE” by Gartner and a market expected to reach $28.5 billion by 2028.

This is your opportunity to get on the rocket ship and join a company that is building a cutting-edge enterprise network and secure cloud platform, and is on a fast track to becoming the worldwide market leader - don’t miss it!

We’re looking for a visionary DevOps to join the R&D team. In this critical role, you will support the entire R&D operation, by providing automated tools and CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities:

• Be the owner of continuous delivery and deployment processes of all of Cato's software projects, build them from the bottom up, and keep extending them.
•  Collaborate with R&D and other departments to provide and improve self-service tools and automate whatever can be automated.
• Help different departments be more productive in their day-to-day and improve overall developer experience.
• Lead technical projects from discovery and design through implementation and rollout.
• Partner with engineering teams to understand pain points, gather requirements, and improve developer workflows.
• Define roadmaps and break down large initiatives into actionable plans and deliverables.
• Contribute to our internal engineering portal and other developer-facing platforms.

Requirements:

•  At least 5 years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and build tools (e.g. Git, Jenkins, Docker, Artifactory).
• Experience in Docker & container technology. Bonus - Experience building and operating production systems on Kubernetes.
• Proven programming and scripting experience - e.g. Go, Groovy, Python, Bash.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic multi-task environment with context switches.
• Strong problem-solving and systems-thinking skills.
• Ability to independently identify gaps, propose solutions, and drive execution.
• Comfortable working directly with engineers, technical leads, and engineering managers.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of and a passion for configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
• Experience with cloud IaaS such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and SaaS platforms in general.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and tools such as ArgoCD.
• Software development experience in a backend language (Go is a strong advantage).
• Experience designing developer self-service workflows.
• Experience with Developer Experience (DevEx) initiatives.
• Experience leading projects or owning significant technical initiatives end-to-end. 

*We operate in a hybrid model, requiring three days in the office.

*Location: NR7, Náměstí republiky, Prague, Czech Republic.