Relevant Experience: 5-7 Years in DevOps / Security-embedded delivery
Position Summary:
As PennEngineering accelerates its Speed of Now transformation, the Customer Experience (CX) team is responsible for customer-facing digital products. We are looking for a DevSecOps Engineer who keeps our delivery pipelines fast, secure, and reliable. This is a mid-senior individual contributor role with a mentoring component: you will work across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and security practices, ensuring security is built into every stage of delivery rather than bolted on at the end. You will also help bring junior and mid-level engineers up to speed on platform and security fundamentals.
Key Responsibility
- Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines with integrated security gates: SAST, dependency scanning, container image scanning, and secrets detection before production
- Build pipeline patterns that engineering teams adopt with minimal friction
- Own environment promotion practices (dev to stage to prod) with appropriate quality and security approvals
- Contribute to developer experience standards that reduce friction and keep engineers productive
- Manage and improve AWS infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CDK; all infrastructure in code
- Support multi-environment AWS structure (dev, stage, prod) with secure account segmentation
- Work with networking components including VPC, CloudFront, WAF, and Route 53
- Contribute to cost visibility and tagging standards so engineering teams see the cost impact of their decisions
3. Security Engineering (Embedded, Not Siloed)
- Implement and maintain security controls across IAM, secrets management, network segmentation, and encryption
- Run and triage vulnerability scanning, dependency audits, and compliance checks as part of standard delivery
- Support CIS Benchmark and NIST control alignment; flag gaps and help remediate them
- Partner with the DevOps Architect and Application Architect on security architecture decisions
4. Observability & Incident Response
- Contribute to the observability stack: structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, and alerting
- Participate in incident response, help write and maintain runbooks, and contribute to on-call readiness
- Track SLIs and SLOs for customer-facing products and flag availability or performance issues early
5. Operational Data Visualization & Enterprise Data
- Coach junior and mid-level engineers on DevSecOps practices, security hygiene, and pipeline standards
- Document platform standards and security runbooks in a way that is accessible and actionable
- Participate in code and infrastructure reviews with a constructive, teaching-oriented approach
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5-7 years in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE with security meaningfully embedded in that experience
- Hands-on AWS experience: VPC, ECS or EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudWatch
- Infrastructure as code using Terraform or AWS CDK; this is non-negotiable
- CI/CD pipeline experience with integrated security tooling: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline
- Practical security experience: least-privilege IAM, secrets management, SAST/DAST tooling, encryption
- Familiarity with CIS Benchmarks and NIST controls at an implementation level, not just awareness
- Experience with structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerting in production environments
- Clear communicator who can explain security and infrastructure decisions to both engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS Security Specialty or AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification
- Experience with container security: image scanning, runtime policies, Kubernetes security posture
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to multi-region platforms (GDPR, data residency)
- Background in B2B, industrial, or manufacturing technology environments
- Platform availability: uptime and SLO attainment across all CX products
- Deployment frequency and change failure rate: DORA metrics across the engineering team
- Security posture: compliance with CIS/NIST controls; time-to-remediate identified vulnerabilities
- Infrastructure as code coverage: percentage of infrastructure managed in code
- Developer experience: time-to-first-deploy for new engineers; engineering team feedback scores
- Knowledge transfer: quality and adoption of runbooks, documentation, and mentoring contributions