AppSec and DevSecOps Lead Waltham, Massachusetts

Mass Digital Health; Waltham (MA); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Imprivata is seeking an AppSec and DevSecOps Lead to operationalize security across its product lines, engineering teams, and infrastructure. This role will embed security throughout the software lifecycle—from design and coding through testing, deployment, operations, and retirement.

The successful candidate will support cloud-native and traditional products deployed in customer-managed, on-premises, virtualized, and hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/IT/Cybersecurity.
• 7+ years in DevOps, cloud, software, or infrastructure security.
• 3+ years hands-on DevSecOps or security engineering experience.
• Experience integrating security into CI/CD workflows across environments.
• Proficiency with major cloud platforms and IaC tooling.

Responsibilities

• Execute DevSecOps strategy across products, cloud, data centers and software.
• Embed secure-by-design and policy-as-code in pipelines with risk-based gates.
• Secure Git workflows, build systems, secrets, SBOMs, and provenance.
• Apply IAM, authentication, authorization, and least privilege controls.
• Align with NIST CSF, CIS Controls, OWASP and healthcare requirements.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud security

CI/CD integration

Scripting (Python/Go/JS)

Security risk communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Cybersecurity

Tools

Git

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Description

Ready to join a team that’s all in? At Imprivata, we deliver unified access and security management programs that eliminate friction, empowering healthcare and mission-critical organizations to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

We believe work can be more than a job or task—it’s a collective spirit; the type that emboldens creativity, embraces challenge, and fosters excitement. We are constantly raising the bar on what’s possible, owning the outcome of our triumphs and trials, staying nimble amidst change, and cultivating an environment where we win together. Here, your ideas matter, your differences are celebrated, and your work drives real results—for your career, your teammates, and our customers.

When you join Imprivata, you embark on a shared journey of ambition and growth. We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. If you’re looking for a place to match your passion with purpose—and where every day you can make an impact—you’ll find it here.

We are seeking an AppSec and DevSecOps Lead to join our team. This is a hybrid opportunity based out of our Waltham, MA office.

Job Summary

Imprivata is seeking an AppSec and DevSecOps Lead to operationalize DevSecOps across its product lines, engineering teams, and infrastructure. This role will embed security throughout the software and infrastructure lifecycle—from design and coding through testing, deployment, operations, and retirement.

The successful candidate will support cloud-native and traditional products deployed in customer-managed, on-premises, virtualized, and hybrid environments. The role combines hands-on engineering with organizational leadership to build secure automation, establish practical standards, and make secure delivery repeatable.

The position will support Imprivata’s identity, authentication, access, patient identity, remote support, analytics, and integration solutions across cloud services, endpoints, medical and shared-use devices, APIs, virtual environments, legacy systems, and customer-managed deployments.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Execute Imprivata’s DevSecOps strategy across products, cloud, data centers, and traditional software, partnering with Engineering, Product, Platform, Quality, DevOps, SecOps, and GRC to drive adoption and clarify ownership.
• Establish security-by-design, secure-by-default, policy-as-code, reusable standards, reference architectures, and minimum security requirements.
• Embed SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets, container, IaC, API, and license scanning into CI/CD, with measurable, risk-based security gates tailored to products and deployment models.
• Secure Git workflows, build systems, runners, identities, repositories, signing systems, credentials, release artifacts, SBOMs, provenance, and other software supply-chain controls.
• Apply secure-by-default controls to cloud, networks, identity, platforms, containers, databases, APIs, serverless services, and service communications.
• Use infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, and automation to address drift, excessive privileges, exposed services, and insecure network paths, while partnering on secrets, encryption, segmentation, logging, monitoring, resilience, testing, and remediation.
• Address security for authentication, authorization, privileged access, sessions, tenant isolation, APIs, federation, mobile, endpoints, healthcare data, new services, acquisitions, and major releases.
• Secure agentic AI and MCP servers, clients, code, and workflows through threat modeling, least privilege, authentication, authorization, tool validation, secure APIs, prompt-injection protection, data-loss prevention, sandboxing, isolation, monitoring, and human approval.
• Operationalize findings from code, dependency, container, cloud, penetration testing, bug reports, and other tools by improving ownership, prioritization, remediation, exceptions, reporting, and monitoring with SecOps.
• Support response to compromised credentials, malicious code, exposed secrets, supply-chain attacks, unauthorized deployments, and cloud compromise, including exercises and post-incident reviews.
• Support NIST SSDF, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, OWASP, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and healthcare requirements; maintain control evidence; and use metrics, incidents, audits, assessments, and engineering feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Other duties as assigned and required.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Seven or more years in DevOps, cloud, software, application, or infrastructure security, including three or more years of hands‑on DevSecOps or security engineering experience.
• Experience integrating security into CI/CD and development workflows across cloud-native and traditional environments.
• Proficiency with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud; infrastructure as code; containers; Kubernetes; Git; and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, or Jenkins.
• Experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets detection, container security, IaC security, vulnerability management, and software supply‑chain controls such as SBOMs, SLSA, Sigstore, artifact signing, or provenance.
• Strong scripting or programming skills in Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, Bash, or comparable languages.
• Working knowledge of IAM, least privilege, authentication, authorization, encryption, certificates, logging, secure network design, and policy‑as‑code.
• Experience securing SaaS, on‑premises, hybrid, virtualized, customer‑managed, mobile, endpoint, API, microservice, serverless, or service‑mesh environments.
• Experience securing products in healthcare, financial services, government, or other regulated industries, including identity, privileged‑access, authentication, or zero‑trust solutions.
• Experience integrating security tools with Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub, GitLab, SIEM, CNAPP, vulnerability‑management, or GRC platforms.
• Familiarity with STRIDE, PASTA, attack trees, or other threat‑modeling methods, and relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Kubernetes security certifications.
• Ability to explain technical risk to technical and nontechnical stakeholders, influence teams, and drive adoption without relying solely on authority.

This position offers a total compensation range of $163,000.00 to $173,000.00 (inclusive of base salary and variable compensation, such as bonuses and incentives). In addition, more information about Imprivata’s benefit offerings can be found here. This range represents the high and low end of Imprivata’s compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, such as a candidate’s location, skills, experience, and qualifications.

At Imprivata, we have a top‑notch work environment, developmental opportunities, a competitive total rewards package, and the desire to have fun.

Imprivata provides equal employment opportunities, regardless of race, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.