--- title: 'Devops Engineer at Zafran Security' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/devops-engineer-zafran-security-tel-aviv-fv2pn0w20nmb' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-04' --- # Devops Engineer at Zafran Security - **Company:** Zafran Security - **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-11-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zafran-security/6a5a3bf1-f4c6-465d-a11f-f4a045e45352/application **Skills:** AWS, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, Monitoring Systems, Logging Systems, Alerting Systems > Zafran is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to optimize and automate infrastructure and deployment processes. The role involves managing AWS-based cloud infrastructure, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring system reliability, scalability, and security. ## Job description Zafran is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our growing team. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in optimizing and automating our infrastructure and deployment processes. You will work closely with the development and operations teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our platform while continuously improving our CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, loves working with cutting-edge technologies, and thrives in a collaborative environment. About Zafran: Our Mission: To stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere. What makes us different: Zafran de-risks 90% of critical vulnerabilities overnight across your hybrid environment and utilizes Agentic Capabilities and your existing security tools to rapidly mitigate and remediate the 10% most likely to be exploited. ​​Who’s behind us: Zafran is backed by Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, and a deep belief that cybersecurity should move as fast as attackers do. We’re one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, scaling to meet demand from the world’s most advanced, security-obsessed organizations. We’re serious about our mission- so expect work that matters, teammates who challenge and inspire you, and plenty of fun along the way! What you will do: - Design, implement, and manage scalable, highly available infrastructure in our AWS-based cloud environment - Develop and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines to allow developers to push bug fixes and enhancements in a quick and safe manner. - Build our monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability. Rapidly identify and resolve production issues. - Work closely with developers and product teams to ensure seamless deployments and improve system performance. - Ensure the infrastructure and deployment processes adhere to best practices in security and compliance. - Develop specific infrastructure solutions to customers in order to allow us to provide our services to customers in highly-regulated industries. ## Requirements - 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a related role. - Proven experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure. - Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, etc. - Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes. - Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and CloudFormation. - Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog. - Scripting and automation experience using languages like Python or Bash - Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. - Experience with disaster recovery planning and high-availability architectures - Certifications in AWS, Google Cloud, or similar cloud platforms are a plus. ## About Zafran Security ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Zafran Security provides an AI-native Threat Exposure Management platform that unifies vulnerability data, assesses exploitability in context, and automates mitigation and remediation using existing security controls. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States [linkedin.com] - **Founded**: 2023 (inferred from initial seed funding in early 2024) [linkedin.com] - **Founders**: Sanaz Yashar (CEO) and Ben Seri (CTO) [zafran.io/about] ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity (vulnerability / exposure management) - **Target customers**: Enterprise security teams (Fortune 500 and high-growth companies) [zafran.io/platform] - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Proactively stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere.” [zafran.io/about] ## Products & Services - **Zafran Threat Exposure Management Platform** (SaaS / agentic): End-to-end platform that unifies findings across cloud, on-prem, and AppSec; assesses risk using runtime presence, reachability, exploitability, asset criticality, and existing controls; enables proactive exposure hunting; provides mitigation guidance that leverages compensating controls; and automates remediation via RemOps (generative AI‑powered remediation operations). [zafran.io/platform] - **Zafran Detector** (released Aug 2025): Continuous vulnerability discovery tool that supplements existing scanners. [linkedin.com] - **Agentic Remediation™**: AI agents that research CVE conditions, validate exploitability on live assets, generate remediation scripts, and maintain human oversight with approval workflows. [zafran.io/platform] ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $105.5M as of December 2025. Breakdown: Seed $5.5M (Mar 2024), Series B $40M (Sep 2024, led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts), Series C $60M (Dec 2025, led by Menlo Ventures). [linkedin.com] - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (Doug Leone on board), Cyberstarts (Lior Simon on board), Menlo Ventures (Rama Sekhar on board), Amex Ventures (strategic investor in 2026). Included in Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program. [zafran.io/about, linkedin.com] - **Growth Signals**: 132 employees (51% YoY growth, +58 people); 30 open positions as of mid‑2026; monthly job postings up 57.9% YoY; expansion across US, Israel, Germany, and UK. [linkedin.com] ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native, context-aware analysis**: Applies each customer’s unique asset criticality, runtime presence, and existing control stack to determine which vulnerabilities are truly exploitable – eliminating up to 90% of critical false positives. [zafran.io/platform] - **Leverages existing defenses**: Rather than demanding new agents or patch‑only fixes, Zafran maps exposures to compensating controls and provides step‑by‑step mitigation guidance, shrinking exposure windows before patching begins. [zafran.io/platform] - **Closed‑loop automation**: Agentic Remediation and RemOps reduce manual triage, consolidate overlapping CVEs into single remediation actions, and route work automatically via ticketing integrations. [zafran.io/platform] - **Founding team with breach‑response experience**: Co‑founders directly investigated breaches resulting from known vulnerabilities, giving the product a practitioner‑driven design. [zafran.io/about] ## Strategic Focus - **Scale the platform’s adoption among large enterprises** (Fortune 500) and expand the partner ecosystem. - **Continue product innovation** – recent launches include the Zafran Detector and RemOps; ongoing development of agentic capabilities. - **Global talent acquisition** – aggressive hiring across engineering, sales, and customer success to support 50%+ headcount growth. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Founded by cybersecurity practitioners who understand the pain of manual vulnerability management. Emphasis on “clarity and speed” and building solutions that make defenders more effective. [zafran.io/about] - **Work model**: Hybrid – offices in New York, Tel Aviv (Israel), and presence in Germany and the UK. Remote options for certain roles (e.g., Channel Manager listed as Remote – CST). [linkedin.com, zafran.io/careers] - **Notable perks / engineering culture**: High ratio of technical staff (40% of known department breakdown); talent drawn from top security companies (Palo Alto Networks, Tenable, Armis, Microsoft). The company values “customer” focus and “building” as core principles. [linkedin.com] - **Growth opportunity**: Joining at a Series C stage with proven product‑market fit and a clear path to scale – an ideal time for impact. ## Sources 1. [zafran.io](https://www.zafran.io/) 2. [zafran.io/about](https://www.zafran.io/about) 3. [zafran.io/platform](https://www.zafran.io/platform) 4. [zafran.io/careers](https://www.zafran.io/careers) 5. 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