
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Vets Hired · Vienna, United States
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Job Summary
The Senior DevSecOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and operating cloud-native infrastructure and deployment platforms. The role combines DevOps automation with security engineering to build scalable, secure, and reliable environments supporting modern applications and machine learning workloads.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, ECS, Docker, and Helm.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using Git and Argo CD.
- Implement secure authentication and authorization using SSO, IAM, RBAC, and workload identities.
- Apply Zero Trust, least-privilege, defense-in-depth, and secure-by-design principles.
- Integrate security controls into cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and container environments.
- Implement vulnerability and container security scanning.
- Design and troubleshoot AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, load balancers, DNS, and TLS.
- Support deployment and operation of microservice-based and cloud-native applications.
- Troubleshoot cloud, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, and application deployment issues.
- Automate infrastructure, security, and operational processes.
- Establish DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure, security, and operational best practices.
- Support monitoring, logging, observability, and infrastructure reliability.
- Apply security standards and best practices throughout the software development and deployment lifecycle.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Terraform.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
- Experience with ECS, Docker, and Helm.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of Git, Argo CD, and Git Ops.
- Hands-on experience with SSO, IAM, Kubernetes RBAC, and access control.
- Strong understanding of Zero Trust and cloud security principles.
- Strong AWS networking knowledge.
- Familiarity with microservice and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong automation, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS Gov Cloud or regulated environments.
- Knowledge of NIST, CIS, FedRAMP, FISMA, or DoD security requirements.
- Experience with Kubernetes security, Network Policies, secrets management, and workload identity.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability technologies.
- AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or security certifications.
Skills
- Machine Learning
- AWS
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- ECS
- Docker
- Helm
- Git
- Argo CD
- SSO
- IAM
- RBAC
- Zero Trust
- DNS
- TLS
- NIST
- FedRAMP
- FISMA
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