Axon
Your Impact
As a Senior Operations Engineer, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our infrastructure. You'll solve complex technical problems, automate improvements, and work with cross-functional teams to support services as they scale. Your work will impact uptime, efficiency, and 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:
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Implementing and improving automated security checks in CI/CD pipelines to prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production.
Writing, reviewing, and maintaining security-focused infrastructure-as-code for scalable and compliant deployments.
Investigating security incidents, performing root cause analysis, and implementing long-term mitigation strategies.
Collaborating with developers to develop new features, services, and infrastructure requirements.
Enhancing security observability through improved log collection, metrics, and alerting configurations.
Maintaining and improving security runbooks, incident response playbooks, and internal security tooling for operational efficiency.
Build and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure that protects core services and sensitive data.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex operational and system-level issues across environments.
Enhance CI/CD pipelines with automated security testing, compliance checks, and deployment safeguards to minimize risk.
Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced security architecture, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
Participate in the on-call rotation, security incident response, and post-incident reviews with a focus on threat mitigation and continuous improvement.
Collaborate with SRE, and Engineers in other Pillars to ensure infrastructure meets the needs of fast-moving development cycles.
Contribute to security-focused infrastructure-as-code and automation initiatives to enforce consistency and reduce manual configuration drift.
Stay current with emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and tools, evaluating and integrating solutions to strengthen defenses and improve operational resilience.
Document security systems, incident response procedures, and best practices for internal knowledge sharing and compliance audits.
What You Bring
7+ years of experience in operations, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering roles.
Strong experience securing and managing cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerized workloads
Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, distributed systems, and their associated security controls.
Proficiency in automation, scripting, and security tooling integration to streamline operations and enforcement.
Experience with security monitoring, alerting, SIEM platforms, and observability tools.
Solid grasp of CI/CD practices with integrated security testing and compliance checks.
Clear, concise communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, operations, and security teams.
A proactive approach to threat detection, vulnerability management, and system hardening.
A passion for building security into systems that are both resilient and user-friendly.
Benefits that Benefit You
Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
Discretionary paid time off
Paid parental leave for all
Fitness Programs
Emotional & Mental Wellness support
And yes, we have snacks in our offices
Equal Employment Opportunity Axon is an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. If you have a disability or need accommodation, please email recruitingops@axon.com. This email is for accommodation purposes only.
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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
Implementing and improving automated security checks in CI/CD pipelines to prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production.
Writing, reviewing, and maintaining security-focused infrastructure-as-code for scalable and compliant deployments.
Investigating security incidents, performing root cause analysis, and implementing long-term mitigation strategies.
Collaborating with developers to develop new features, services, and infrastructure requirements.
Enhancing security observability through improved log collection, metrics, and alerting configurations.
Maintaining and improving security runbooks, incident response playbooks, and internal security tooling for operational efficiency.
Build and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure that protects core services and sensitive data.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex operational and system-level issues across environments.
Enhance CI/CD pipelines with automated security testing, compliance checks, and deployment safeguards to minimize risk.
Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced security architecture, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
Participate in the on-call rotation, security incident response, and post-incident reviews with a focus on threat mitigation and continuous improvement.
Collaborate with SRE, and Engineers in other Pillars to ensure infrastructure meets the needs of fast-moving development cycles.
Contribute to security-focused infrastructure-as-code and automation initiatives to enforce consistency and reduce manual configuration drift.
Stay current with emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and tools, evaluating and integrating solutions to strengthen defenses and improve operational resilience.
Document security systems, incident response procedures, and best practices for internal knowledge sharing and compliance audits.
What You Bring
7+ years of experience in operations, site reliability, or infrastructure engineering roles.
Strong experience securing and managing cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerized workloads
Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, distributed systems, and their associated security controls.
Proficiency in automation, scripting, and security tooling integration to streamline operations and enforcement.
Experience with security monitoring, alerting, SIEM platforms, and observability tools.
Solid grasp of CI/CD practices with integrated security testing and compliance checks.
Clear, concise communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, operations, and security teams.
A proactive approach to threat detection, vulnerability management, and system hardening.
A passion for building security into systems that are both resilient and user-friendly.
Benefits that Benefit You
Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
Discretionary paid time off
Paid parental leave for all
Fitness Programs
Emotional & Mental Wellness support
And yes, we have snacks in our offices
Equal Employment Opportunity Axon is an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. If you have a disability or need accommodation, please email recruitingops@axon.com. This email is for accommodation purposes only.
#J-18808-Ljbffr