--- title: 'Lead DevOps Engineer at Point Wild' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-devops-engineer-point-wild-romania-h0nkp7a55cw7' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Lead DevOps Engineer at Point Wild - **Company:** Point Wild - **Location:** Romania - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pointwild/jobs/5388797008 ## Job description Point Wild helps customers monitor, manage, and protect against the risks associated with their identities and personal information in a digital world. Backed by WndrCo, Warburg Pincus and General Catalyst, Point Wild is dedicated to creating the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. Our vision is to become THE go-to resource for every cyber protection need individuals may face - today and in the future. Join us for the ride! We’re looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to architect, automate, and lead our cloud infrastructure and continuous delivery strategy on Google Cloud. In this role, you will own the reliability, scalability, and security of our production environments, ensuring zero-downtime operations and seamless deployment pipelines. You will drive our DevOps practices forward by codifying infrastructure, automating release management, and enforcing strict security and compliance standards. We are a high-trust, outcome-focused team that moves quickly to solve complex, large-scale infrastructure and operational challenges on GCP. Core Responsibilities: - GCP Infrastructure & Architecture: Architect, deploy, and manage highly available, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Maintain and scale declarative infrastructure using Terraform across a multi-hundred-file estate, enforcing GitOps workflows with Atlantis. - CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Build, maintain, and optimize robust automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD. - Networking & Traffic Management: Manage enterprise networking perimeters, service mesh architectures (Istio mTLS, VirtualServices), and API Gateways (Kong) for secure ingress, egress, and microservices traffic. - System Observability & Reliability: Implement comprehensive telemetry, log aggregation, and alerting to ensure high availability, optimal resource utilization, and fast incident response. - Security, Compliance & Operations: Enforce strict security postures (VPC-SC, IAM, Org Policies), manage identity and secrets storage, maintain compliance standards (such as SOC2), and participate in the operational on-call rotation. What you bring to the table: - Deep GCP & Kubernetes Mastery: Senior/Lead level experience operating production workloads on GCP and GKE (cluster topology, Helm, Kustomize, and ArgoCD). - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Expert-level Terraform skills with extensive experience running GitOps workflows at scale (specifically via Atlantis). - CI/CD Expertise: Strong track record of designing, building, and maintaining multi-stage automated deployment pipelines. - Networking & Service Mesh: High proficiency with Istio (VirtualServices, mTLS, sidecar injection) and API Gateways (specifically Kong). - Enterprise Security & Identity: Hands-on experience enforcing enterprise-grade security and secret management (Auth0, Dex, ESO, SOPS, VPC-SC, IAM). - Database & Datastore Familiarity: Solid operational comfort with Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL), BigQuery, and in-cluster datastores like Elasticsearch or ClickHouse. - At least an upper-intermediate level of spoken and written English. It would be great if you also had: - Automation Savvy: Experience with Ansible for host configuration, cluster bootstrapping, and disaster recovery. - Advanced Certifications: GCP Professional Cloud Architect, GCP Professional Security Engineer, or Kubernetes certifications (CKA / CKS). - Telemetry & Monitoring: Practical experience with Loki, Grafana, or ClickHouse for centralized logging and metrics. As part of Point Wild, you will: Solve real customer problems. Point Wild’s point solutions allow consumers to address their immediate cyber protection needs. Our mandate is to continuously anticipate our customers’ evolving digital security needs to create best-in-class solutions aimed at keeping them safe. See your impact. We are a scrappy, nimble organization where individual contributions are needed and valued. You will see your impact every day. Accelerate your career.  As we expand, you will have the opportunity to learn new technologies, products, and markets in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment. Most importantly, you’ll get to work with other talented people at a company where people matter. If you want to put your fingerprint on an organization and leapfrog your growth, this is the place for you. In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination or harassment based on “protected categories,” Point Wild is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Point Wild. Important privacy information for United States based job applicants can be found [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WVjqmmLXKkH54XMrgksxVSqzgNl-RAcZ/view?usp=sharing). ## About Point Wild ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Point Wild is a data security software company that provides breach resilience, response, and remediation solutions for consumers and enterprises through a portfolio of online security brands. - **Entity Type**: Private - **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - **Founded**: The company was formed in 2024 through the merger and rebranding of Pango Group and Total Security. - **Founders**: Hari Ravichandran (Founder & Chairman) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Cybersecurity, Data Security Software Products, Identity Theft Protection, Device Security, Online Privacy - **Target customers**: B2C (consumers), B2B (enterprises), and B2B (partners/channel) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "To secure sensitive data, ensure privacy, and protect endpoints with innovative, robust, and scalable solutions for consumers and enterprises." [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) ## Products & Services - **Lat61 (Agentic AI Threat Protection Engine)**: An intelligent platform that ingests over 1 billion daily events from 25 million protected endpoints to provide unified threat insights, superior protection, and powerful network effects across the entire breach ecosystem. It is a modular, plug-and-play security platform leveraged across consumer and enterprise solutions. [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) - **Consumer Security Brands**: A portfolio of best-in-class device security, online privacy, and identity theft protection brands serving more than 25 million users worldwide. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/point-wild) - **CyEx (Cyber and Data Breach Response Solution)**: A first-of-its-kind cyber and data breach response solution. [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) - **Comparitech**: A leading consumer security review site (acquired by Pango Group). [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) - **Simpluris**: An award-winning class action settlement administrator (acquired by Pango Group). [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) - **Juraspring**: A lien resolution firm (acquired by Point Wild). [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held). - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Venture Round from 1 investor (details not disclosed). The company was formed via a merger and operates as a standalone entity after separating from Aura. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/point-wild) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Board members include Sujay Jaswa (Founding Partner, WndrCo), Jeffrey Katzenberg (Founding Partner, WndrCo), Trevor Oelschig (Managing Director, General Catalyst), and Chandler Reedy (Managing Director, Head of Strategic Investments, Warburg Pincus). [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-team/) - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount growth of +43.7% year-over-year (adding 45 people, now at 122 employees). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/point-wild) - 20% YoY growth and 200M+ "class members served" noted on the careers page. [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/careers/) - Operates in 9 countries (US, UK, India, Ukraine, Poland, Portugal, Georgia, Lithuania, Romania). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/point-wild) - Active job postings: 30 (with a monthly increase of +100% and quarterly increase of +500%). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/point-wild) ## Competitive Advantages - **Compounding Data Moat**: The Lat61 platform leverages a "compounding data moat" from 25 million protected endpoints and over 1 billion daily events, creating powerful network effects that improve threat detection and protection for all users. [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) - **Agentic AI**: The company's core technology is built on an Agentic AI threat protection engine, setting it apart in the cybersecurity market. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/point-wild) - **Modular Platform**: The plug-and-play nature of the Lat61 platform allows it to be leveraged across different consumer and enterprise solutions, creating a unified ecosystem. [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) - **Portfolio Strategy**: Point Wild operates as a portfolio of best-in-class security brands, allowing it to acquire and scale proven solutions rather than building everything from scratch. [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) ## Strategic Focus - **Growth through acquisition**: The company's history shows a clear strategy of acquiring and scaling best-in-class brands (Comparitech, Simpluris, Juraspring, Total Security). [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) - **Platform consolidation**: Building a unified security platform (Lat61) that powers all its brands, creating a holistic fence around data breaches. [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) - **Global expansion**: Rapidly expanding its workforce across 9 countries, with a strong presence in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria) for engineering talent. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/point-wild) ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: The company describes itself as "scrappy, nimble" with "no red tape, no bureaucracy." Employees are encouraged to "take ownership, forge their own path and grow into leaders." [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/careers/) - **Impact**: Individual contributions are highly valued and visible in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment. [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/careers/) - **Remote-First**: The company is fully remote, with open roles listed for remote work in the US, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and India. [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/careers/) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/point-wild) - **Technical Stack**: Heavy emphasis on Go (Golang) for backend roles, with open positions for Backend Architect - Golang, Principal Platform Engineer, and DevOps Engineer. [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/careers/) - **Growth Trajectory**: With 43.7% headcount growth and a 500% quarterly increase in job postings, the company is in a rapid scaling phase, offering significant career acceleration opportunities. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/point-wild) - **Leadership**: The leadership team includes experienced executives from cybersecurity and technology, including a Chief AI & Technology Officer (Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan). [pointwild.com](https://www.pointwild.com/our-team/) ## Sources 1. [pointwild.com - Careers](https://www.pointwild.com/careers/) 2. [pointwild.com - Our Story](https://www.pointwild.com/our-story/) 3. [linkedin.com - Point Wild](https://www.linkedin.com/company/point-wild) 4. [builtin.com - Point Wild](https://builtin.com/company/point-wild) 5. 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