DevSecOps – Staff Engineer

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A DevSecOps Staff Engineer integrates security into DevOps practices, designing secure CI/CD pipelines, building and automating secure cloud infrastructure and ensuring compliance across development, operations, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines utilizing DevSecOps principles and practices to increase automation and reduce human involvement in the process
• Integrate tools of SAST, DAST, SCA, etc. within pipelines to enable automated application building, testing, securing and deployment.
• Implement security controls for cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), including IAM, container security (EKS/ECS), and data encryption for services like S3 or BigQuery, etc.
• Automate vulnerability scanning, monitoring, and compliance processes by collaborating with DevOps and Development teams to minimize risks in deployment pipelines.
• Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.
• Review cloud deployment architectures and implement required security controls.
• Mentor other engineers on security practices and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in CS or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of overall industry experience with AWS Certified - Security Specialist.
• Must have implementation experience using security tools and processes related to SAST, DAST and Pen Testing
• AWS-specific: 5+ years’ experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2, RDS, ELB, S3, VPC, CloudWatch) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
• Experienced with CI/CD tool chain (GitHub Actions, Packages, Jenkins, etc.)
• Passionate about solving security challenges and being informed of available and emerging security threats and various security technologies.
• Must be familiar with the OWASP Top 10 Security Risks and Controls
• Good skills in at least one or more scripting languages: Python, Bash
• Good knowledge in Kubernetes, Docker Swarm or other cluster management software.
• Willing to work in shifts as required

Good to Have

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Observability: Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g. CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.).
• Experience with Terraform/Ansible/Chef/Puppet
• Operating Systems: Windows and Linux system administration.

Perks:

• Day off on the 3rd Friday of every month (one long weekend each month)
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement Program to promote health well-being
• Monthly Office Commutation Reimbursement Program
• Paid paternity and maternity leaves