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Senior Security Operations Engineer II

Scottsdale, AZ · On-site

$115K - $158K/yr

Familiarity with IAM and access management platforms such as Okta, Entra ID, Keycloak, or similar solutions. * Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting distributed ...

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What is Keycloak and what is it used for?

Keycloak is an open-source identity and access management solution for modern applications and services. It provides features such as single sign-on (SSO), user federation, identity brokering, and social login, making it easier to manage authentication and authorization. Organizations use Keycloak to secure their applications and APIs, centralize user management, and integrate with external identity providers. Its flexibility and support for industry-standard protocols like OAuth2 and SAML make it a popular choice for developers and enterprises.

What are some common challenges faced by Keycloak administrators and how can they be addressed?

Keycloak administrators often encounter challenges such as integrating with diverse identity providers, ensuring high availability, and managing complex access control requirements. Staying up to date with frequent Keycloak updates and security patches is also crucial for maintaining a secure environment. These challenges can be addressed by thoroughly testing integrations in staging environments, leveraging Keycloak's built-in clustering and backup features for reliability, and regularly reviewing documentation and community forums for best practices. Collaboration with development, security, and IT operations teams is essential to ensure seamless authentication and authorization across applications.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Keycloak Administrator, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Keycloak Administrator, you need a solid understanding of identity and access management (IAM) concepts, authentication protocols (such as OAuth2, SAML, and OpenID Connect), and experience with Keycloak setup and maintenance. Familiarity with tools like Keycloak Admin Console, REST APIs, containerization platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and scripting languages is typically required. Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and effective communication help you excel in troubleshooting and collaborating with development and security teams. These abilities ensure secure, seamless authentication infrastructures and robust user management within an organization's digital ecosystem.
Senior Security Operations Engineer II

Senior Security Operations Engineer II

Axon

Scottsdale, AZ

$115K - $158K/yr

Other

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 22 days ago


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8.8

Company rating: 8.8 out of 10

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Job description

Your Impact 

As a Senior Security Operations Engineer, you'll play a key role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our security infrastructure. You'll solve complex technical problems, improve our systems through thoughtful automation, and work closely with cross-functional teams to support our services as they scale. You'll provide hands on execution capabilities for new initiatives in the Identity space, primarily to build out, maintain and support for PKI solutions at scale and provide auxiliary execution support for user identity and access management (IAM) initiatives. Your work will have a direct impact on uptime, efficiency, and the overall developer experience-contributing to our mission to deliver high-quality mission critical systems at speed.

 
What You'll Do

Location: This role is based out of our Scottsdale, AZ office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

Reports to: Manager, InfoSec Engineering
Direct Reports: 0

  • Design, deploy, and operate PKI infrastructure supporting secure authentication, encryption, and certificate lifecycle management.
  • Manage certificates, secrets, keys, and trust stores, including issuance, renewal, rotation, and revocation.
  • Build, maintain, and secure Kubernetes clusters hosting PKI and secret management services.
  • Automate PKI and secret management workflows using Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes-native tooling.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot PKI, certificate, secret, and Kubernetes infrastructure issues, performing root cause analysis and remediation.
  • Collaborate with other teams to integrate PKI and secrets management into cloud-native applications and services.
  • Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and disaster recovery procedures for PKI and Kubernetes environments.
  • Ensure PKI and Kubernetes platforms meet security, reliability, and compliance requirements.
  • Build and operate secure, reliable, and scalable PKI and secrets management infrastructure.
  • Design and implement PKI solutions supporting 24x7 production and enterprise environments.
  • Manage certificates, secrets, encryption keys, and access controls across Kubernetes-based platforms.
  • Deploy, maintain, and secure Kubernetes clusters hosting PKI and secret management services.
  • Automate certificate lifecycle, secret rotation, and infrastructure operations using CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve PKI, certificate, secret, and Kubernetes infrastructure issues.
  • Collaborate with SRE, platform, and security teams to integrate PKI and secrets management into cloud-native services.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and operational improvement initiatives.
  • Document PKI architecture, operational procedures, and security best practices
 What You Bring
  • 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, SRE, or security engineering roles.
  • Strong experience managing and securing Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads in production environments.
  • Hands-on experience with PKI platforms, certificate lifecycle management, secrets management, and encryption technologies.
  • Experience operating cloud-native security solutions such as AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, EJBCA, Smallstep, or Venafi.
  • Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, distributed systems, and Kubernetes security best practices.
  • Experience with automation, scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD pipelines for PKI and infrastructure operations.
  • Familiarity with IAM and access management platforms such as Okta, Entra ID, Keycloak, or similar solutions.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting distributed infrastructure and security systems.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, operations, and security teams.
  • Passion for building secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure platforms.
 Benefits that Benefit You
  • Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
  • Discretionary paid time off
  • Paid parental leave for all
  • Medical, Dental, Vision plans
  • Fitness Programs
  • Emotional & Mental Wellness support
  • Learning & Development programs
  • And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.


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