DevSecOps Engineer
Skills
About the role
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a proactive and skilled DevSecOps Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience to join our growing engineering team. You'll be working closely with a small team of five DevOps engineers to build, maintain, and scale secure cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks. We value a security-first engineering mindset where you will integrate security-as-code practices throughout the entire development lifecycle. If your background is in DevOps, that is a great fit, provided you have always focused on and enjoyed the security aspects of your work, and are now ready to fully commit to a dedicated security role.
We value collaboration, strong communication, and a growth mindset: you'll be expected to contribute ideas, give and receive feedback, and work independently to ensure our platform is as secure as it is performant.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Integrate automated security scanning (SAST, DAST, container scanning) into CI/CD pipelines to ensure early detection of vulnerabilities.
- Maintain and audit cloud infrastructure compliance (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR) through automated policies.
- Implement security best practices within Terraform/IaC to ensure "security-as-code" consistency.
- Monitor and respond to cloud security incidents, collaborating closely with security and compliance teams.
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS, with strong focus on EC2, RDS, OpenSearch, and EKS.
- Help to manage the Kubernetes clusters running our microservices (we have over a hundred in production) as well as the legacy EC2-based platform.
- Hardening Kubernetes clusters by implementing network policies, RBAC, and secure pod security standards to protect our microservices environment.
- Collaborate on maintaining our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) maintenance using Terraform.
- Identify opportunities for automation and optimization in deployment and infrastructure management.
- Document processes, infrastructure, and decisions clearly and effectively.
- Partner closely with our Information Security Lead on compliance audits, control evidence, and security roadmap prioritization, while reporting into the Head of DevOps for day-to-day work.
YOUR PROFILE
Experience with our stack:
- Proven experience in a DevSecOps or security-focused engineering role.
- Familiarity with modern security tooling (vulnerability management, secrets management etc.).
- Strong understanding of "shift-left" security principles.
- 3+ years of experience in a DevOps or similar role.
- Deep experience with AWS services, especially IAM, EC2, RDS, EKS, and OpenSearch.
- Solid understanding and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and related tooling (we use Helm, Kustomize and FluxCD but we value knowing and adhering to the GitOps practices more than the specific tools).
- Strong proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure automation.
- Experience in CI/CD tools.
- Bash or other shell scripting knowledge
Soft Skills & Mindset:
- Highly proactive and self-motivated; able to identify and address issues before they escalate.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. We are a remote and distributed team so we focus on effective and async communication.
- Comfortable working collaboratively within a distributed team but also capable of driving tasks independently.
- Open to giving and receiving feedback, and eager to grow with the team.
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail and commitment to high-quality work.
NICE-TO-HAVE
- Experience with GitLab CI and GitLab in general.
- Familiarity with the JVM.
- Experience in cost optimization on AWS.
- Having worked with Istio or other service meshes.
- Exposure to GRC/compliance automation tooling (Drata, Vanta, or similar)
- Experience with Vulnerability/dependency scanning tools
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