Principal Security Operations Engineer United States; Boston

Location:

Atlanta, Georgia, United States;
Boston, Massachusetts, United States;
San Francisco, California, United States;
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States;
Seattle, Washington, United States

As a Principal
Security Operations Engineer
, you will play a key role in building secure, reliable, and developer-friendly infrastructure that enables teams to move quickly without compromising security. You will solve complex technical challenges, improve system reliability through automation, and partner closely with engineering teams to scale security capabilities across the organization. In this role, you will design and develop security tools that support vulnerability management and secure software delivery pipelines, integrating security seamlessly into developer workflows.

Your work will help reduce friction for developers while ensuring high standards for security, reliability, and operational efficiency across mission-critical systems.

Location: Seattle, WA, Scottsdale, AZ, Boston, MA, Atlanta, GA, San Francisco, CA

Direct Reports: None

• Lead the review, design, and continuous improvement of Axon’s Kubernetes platforms with platform teams to strengthen architecture, security, resilience, and operational practices across existing and new environments.
• Drive the evolution of security application delivery at Axon, refactoring how security services are built, deployed, and operated while establishing automated security controls and guardrails across CI/CD pipelines.
• Architect, provision, and secure AWS and Azure infrastructure supporting critical security platforms and services, leveraging infrastructure-as-code, automation, and cloud-native best practices.
• Partner with developers, SRE, and platform engineering teams to influence architecture and ensure security is embedded into infrastructure, services, and developer workflows by design.
• Provide deep technical leadership during complex security and infrastructure incidents, driving root cause analysis, durable remediation, and engineering improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Advance security observability across cloud and Kubernetes environments through improved telemetry, logging, metrics, detection, and actionable alerting.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate operational toil by building and improving internal security tooling, automation, runbooks, and self-service capabilities.
• Establish technical standards and best practices for operating security platforms at scale, while mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.
• Experience designing or operating PKI and certificate management systems at scale is a plus.

• Define and drive the technical strategy for securing Axon’s cloud-native infrastructure, with a strong focus on Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and AWS/Azure environments.
• Lead architectural reviews and improvements across Axon’s Kubernetes platforms, identifying security, reliability, and operational gaps and partnering with platform teams to implement scalable solutions.
• Modernize how security applications are built, deployed, and operated at Axon, improving deployment architecture, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code to create secure, repeatable, and resilient delivery patterns.
• Design and implement security guardrails and automated controls across CI/CD and developer workflows, enabling engineering teams to move quickly while identifying and addressing security risks early.
• Architect and provision secure, highly available AWS and Azure infrastructure for critical security services using infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native technologies.
• Establish and improve security standards for Kubernetes and container ecosystems, including cluster hardening, workload security, RBAC, network controls, admission policies, image security, and runtime protection.
• Provide technical leadership for complex security and infrastructure challenges, including high-impact incidents, architecture decisions, and cross-platform security initiatives.
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