Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours.
Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.
With a focus on customer-centric thinking, we're not just another vendor – we're a transformative force in the industry. By joining one of our Customer Excellence teams, you will have the chance to work with our portfolio of over 10,000 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies.
About the Role
As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a Security Focus, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our cloud infrastructure and services. You will lead initiatives in security automation, threat detection, incident response, and compliance, working closely with engineering, DevOps, and security teams to build highly resilient and secure systems.
Key Responsibilities
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Lead security-focused SRE initiatives, including secure CI/CD pipelines, automated vulnerability management, and threat modeling.
• Develop security automation tools to detect and mitigate security risks proactively.
• Collaborate with security teams to integrate Zero Trust Architecture, IAM best practices, and least privilege principles across infrastructure.
• Monitor and improve system reliability, performance, and security posture using SIEM, IDS/IPS, and security analytics tools.
• Enhance incident response and forensics capabilities, ensuring rapid detection, response, and recovery from security threats.
• Implement secure logging, monitoring, and anomaly detection for cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes).
• Automate security policy enforcement and compliance monitoring (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, HIPAA, GDPR).
• Drive chaos engineering and resilience testing to validate system security and failure recovery mechanisms.
• Mentor and guide SRE and security engineers in best practices for secure infrastructure and operational excellence.
Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Security Engineering, with at least 3+ years in a security-focused role.
• Strong background in cloud security, infrastructure as code (IaC), and container security.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD security (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Proficiency in cloud security tools such as AWS Security Hub, GCP Security Command Center, or Azure Defender.
• Deep understanding of encryption, identity & access management (IAM), secrets management, and network security.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanning, and log analysis.
• Strong programming/scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and security tooling.
• Experience conducting security incident response, forensic analysis, and post-mortems.
• Familiarity with security frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, CIS Benchmarks) and compliance standards.
Salary Range:
-The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $165,000 and $225,000. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location and relevant experience, education, certifications, and seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. There is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis.
Additionally, you will enjoy some of our local benefits such as:
- Comprehensive medical, accidental, and life insurance
- Weekly wellness sessions to support your physical and mental well-being
- A generous paid time off policy
Join ABBYY, and you will:
Love how you work
- We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.
- We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.
- Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.
- To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.
Love whom you work with
- We are a global team of 600+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.
- With colleagues representing 30+ nationalities, our workforce reflects the world.
- Innovation and excellence run through our veins. Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140
technology patents. - We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity.
- "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.
Love what you work on
- We are a company with more than 35 years of experience in the technology market;
- Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK;
- We have modernized the capture market by creating the first low-code/no-code IDP platform.
- Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process;
- Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.
ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.
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