Senior DevSecOps Engineer: Cloud & Kubernetes Security

Helpware; México; A distancia; MXN 900.000 - 1.500.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Helpware is seeking a hands-on Senior DevSecOps Engineer to build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD pipelines. You will embed security into the software delivery lifecycle and drive secure‑by‑default practices across engineering and platform teams.

The role focuses on DevSecOps, cloud security, infrastructure automation, and software supply‑chain security, with practical engineering rigor and automation to reduce risk.

Formación

• 5+ years hands-on experience in DevSecOps, DevOps, Cloud Security, Platform Engineering, or related roles with security automation.
• Strong hands-on experience securing AWS or Google Cloud, including IAM, workload identity, networking, encryption, logging, and cloud‑native security controls.
• Deep experience operating and securing Kubernetes and containerized workloads, including managed platforms like Amazon EKS or Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, including reusable modules, dependency management, policy enforcement, and safe change management.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and release engineering, including artifact security, deployment controls, approval gates, trusted builds, and rollback strategies.
• Experience implementing automated security controls like vulnerability and dependency scanning, container image scanning, secrets detection, policy-as-code, etc.
• Strong scripting or programming skills for automation, integrations, tooling, and problem solving.
• Experience in regulated/audited environments, translating HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HITRUST, SOX into engineering controls.
• Strong communication and technical leadership, balancing security, reliability, developer experience, and delivery speed.
• English proficiency at B2+ or higher.

Responsabilidades

• Integrate security into cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and developer self‑service workflows.
• Design and implement secure‑by‑default patterns for IAM, workload identity, secrets management, network security, IaC, deployment, and workload protection.
• Assess current security landscape, identify gaps, and establish scalable security practices within DevOps and platform teams.
• Build automated, risk‑based security guardrails across source control, container builds, infrastructure changes, and deployments using policy‑as‑code.
• Strengthen Kubernetes, container, and software supply‑chain security, including cluster config, workload isolation, ingress, runtime protection, SBOMs, artifact signing, and build provenance.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across cloud, Kubernetes, and CI/CD environments.
• Support security incident response across infrastructure and delivery systems, including investigation, containment, recovery, and post‑incident improvements.
• Translate security, regulatory, and audit requirements into practical engineering controls.
• Create automation, documentation, runbooks, and security standards, while mentoring engineers on DevSecOps best practices.

Conocimientos

DevSecOps

Cloud security

Kubernetes security

CI/CD

Scripting

Leadership

Communications

Security automation

Regulated environments

English proficiency

Herramientas

AWS

Google Cloud

Terraform

Descripción del empleo

Helpware is seeking a hands-on Senior DevSecOps Engineer to build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD pipelines. You will embed security into the software delivery lifecycle and drive secure‑by‑default practices across engineering and platform teams.

The role focuses on DevSecOps, cloud security, infrastructure automation, and software supply‑chain security, with practical engineering rigor and automation to reduce risk.