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ForeScout Technologies, Inc. DevOps Engineer in Ottawa, Canada
DevOps Engineer
Engineering Ottawa, Canada
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What We Do
Shape the future of cybersecurity at Forescout. Every day cyberattacks threaten to disrupt hospitals, power grids, financial systems, and the infrastructure we all depend on. At Forescout, we build the defenses that keep civilization running smoothly in an increasingly connected world.
For more than 25 years, Fortune 100 organizations, government agencies, and large enterprises have trusted Forescout as their foundation to manage cyber risk, ensure compliance, and mitigate threats. From power grids and healthcare systems to financial networks and transportation hubs, Forescout protects the critical infrastructure of our modern world.
What You Will Do
As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in scaling and securing our Azure-based SaaS platform. You will be responsible for owning and evolving our CI/CD infrastructure, driving SRE best practices, and contributing to our SOC2 compliance. This is a position for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment, and is deeply familiar with modern DevOps in the Azure cloud ecosystem.
In this role, you will...
Collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, secure, and scale our SaaS platform on Azure using services like AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and related services.
Lead the development and optimization of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release engineering workflows using tools like Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
Drive SRE principles across the organization, focusing on observability, incident response, availability, performance monitoring, and operational excellence.
Contribute directly to our SOC2 compliance, including secure configuration management, audit logging, documentation, and operational procedures.
Provide Tier 2/3 operational support, including support during maintenance windows and participation in an on-call rotation during North American business hours.
Support ongoing capacity planning, cost optimization, and scaling efforts for key infrastructure services.
Maintain and improve production monitoring, alerting, and runbooks to ensure high reliability and rapid incident response.
Participate in security, availability, and disaster recovery planning.
Document operational processes, architectural decisions, and runbooks in a structured, trackable system (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
We’re looking for someone who has...
5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
3+ years of experience with Azure Cloud and its native services (especially AKS, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Monitor, Key Vault, etc.).
Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for microservices architectures and serverless environments.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm charts, and managing cloud-native workloads.
Expertise in infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform.
Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python).
Deep experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, etc.
Familiarity with SOC 2, or other security/compliance frameworks.
Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and compliance teams.
Proven ability to work effectively in remote teams across time zones.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with GitHub Actions/Workflows or GitLab CI.
Experience with distributed databases such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis.
Experience with platform engineering would be an asset
Exposure to security practices in SaaS environments (encryption, secret management, network hardening).
Familiarity with change management processes.
Relevant Azure certifications.
Prior experience contributing to or leading SOC2 or other regulated compliance initiatives.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
What Forescout Offers You
Competitive compensation and benefits – we cover 85% of employee and dependents’ benefits premiums (US only), 401K match, generous PTO policy, and much more
Collaborative and innovative environment – make an impact on worldwide security while working on the hottest technology
Leadership that supports and encourages professional growth and development
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Learn more at: www.forescout.com
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Forescout Technologies is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value and embrace diversity, equality, inclusion, and collaboration at the core of our “One Team” philosophy. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.