DevSecOps Engineer: Build Secure, Scalable AWS Platform

Lepaya; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Office in Amsterdam

Learning & growth

Job summary

Lepaya is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to join our security-minded team in the Netherlands. You’ll work on AWS infrastructure, implement policy-as-code, and integrate security into our pipelines, enabling secure, scalable learning platforms.

You will collaborate with security, IT, and product teams to automate guardrails and ensure a secure, observable cloud environment as Lepaya scales globally.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in DevOps, Platform, Cloud or Security Engineering in a fast-paced startup/scale-up.
• Hands-on AWS and Terraform experience.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar).
• Experience with Docker and cloud-native orchestration.
• Strong cloud security fundamentals (IAM, encryption, network security).
• Experience with security automation (vulnerability scanning, SAST/SCA, or CSPM).
• Scripting in Bash or Python; TypeScript a plus.
• Strong English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve AWS infrastructure with security by default: least-privilege IAM, encryption, network controls.
• Embed security into CI/CD: scanning in every pipeline and actionable results for engineers.
• Introduce policy-as-code (Checkov, OPA) to catch misconfigurations before deploy.
• Develop secure-by-default infrastructure modules for launching new services.
• Strengthen cloud security posture across multi-account AWS org: IAM, threat detection, vulnerability management.
• Automate compliance and support security audits.
• Improve monitoring/observability using Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry, incl. security signals.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive processes and improve developer experience.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Docker

CI/CD

Bash / Python

Tools

Checkov

OPA

OWASP ZAP

Job description

Lepaya is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to join our security-minded team in the Netherlands. You’ll work on AWS infrastructure, implement policy-as-code, and integrate security into our pipelines, enabling secure, scalable learning platforms.

You will collaborate with security, IT, and product teams to automate guardrails and ensure a secure, observable cloud environment as Lepaya scales globally.