Cloud DevSecOps Engineer

Regions Financial Corporation; Hoover (AL); Remote; USD 109,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Regions Financial Corporation is seeking a Cloud DevSecOps Engineer to advance our cloud strategy by developing robust, secure CI/CD pipelines and automation for cloud deployments. You will collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, InfoSec, Software Delivery and QA to enable full automation and secure practices across the stack.

As part of the team, you will implement tests, build infrastructure as code with Terraform and Packer, and contribute to immutable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Requires High School Diploma or GED with six years of related post‑secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology.
• Two (2) years of DevSecOps experience preferred.
• AWS or Azure DevOps certification preferred.
• Experience building cloud‑native applications – OpenShift, AKS.
• Experience with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault.
• Familiar with Chaos engineering principles in pipelines and automation testing.

Responsibilities

• Assists with releasing candidate CI/CD pipelines as a mechanism to communicate the states and steps necessary to determine a release candidate for each application and service.
• Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments including automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deployment.
• Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices including automated tests and infrastructure tests.
• Builds tools to reduce errors and improve customer experiences.
• Assists in troubleshooting production issues and ensures pipeline and infrastructure produce clear documentation and metrics for Root Cause Analysis.
• Develops and tests Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establishes immutable infrastructure.
• Works with Enterprise Architecture, InfoSec, Software Delivery, and QA to enable cloud adoption with complete automation.
• Ensures compliance with risk management programs and applies disciplined change management.

Education

High School diploma or GED

Tools

Python

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Packer

Ansible

Git

OpenShift

AKS

Hashicorp Vault

Job description

Thank you for your interest in a career at Regions. At Regions, we believe associates deserve more than just a job. We believe in offering performance-driven individuals a place where they can build a career --- a place to expect more opportunities. If you are focused on results, dedicated to quality, strength and integrity, and possess the drive to succeed, then we are your employer of choice.

At Regions, the Cloud DevSecOps Engineer contributes to the advancement of cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role includes developing, communicating, and implementing robust and secure cloud continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. This role works closely with stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines which support current DevSecOps best practices.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assists with releasing candidate CI/CD pipelines as a mechanism to communicate the states and steps necessary to determine a release candidate for each application and service
• Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deployment
• Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include automated tests and infrastructure tests
• Builds tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences
• Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause Analysis
• Develops and tests – Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past
• Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Software Delivery, and Quality Assurance to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation
• Ensures compliance with risk management programs, rules and regulations, and cybersecurity practices; identifies opportunities for and supports process improvements; applies disciplined change management practices

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED and six (6) years of related post‑secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology

Preferences

• Two (2) years of relevant DevSecOps experience
• AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification
• Experience in building / deploying cloud native applications – OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault
• Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline to determine weak links and suggest solutions.
• Familiar with testing tools used to facilitate automation and integration of the tools into CI/CD pipelines

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to interpret and ensure compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and industry guidance
• Excellent knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, networking, services, and cloud architectural patterns; specifically, compute using virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, serverless, as well as database services, security services, and application services
• Proficient in python programming language
• Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies
• Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plus

• 2+ years building and deploying a cloud‑native applications on AWS or Azure using Python or TypeScript with infrastructure defined in Infrastructure‑as‑Code
• 2+ years hands‑on with an IaC language (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or Bicep) actually provisioning resources
• Experience writing maintainable, tested application code in Python and/or TypeScript, not one‑off scripts.
• Comfortable deploying into a provisioned cloud network (VPC/VNet, subnets, security groups) and reasoning about basic connectivity.

Regions will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position at this time. Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis.

This position is currently offsite, preferably close to a Regions office within our retail branch footprint (click here to see our locations). Associates will work from their home primarily and may be expected to go on site for meetings or other events as needed.

Compensation Details

Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point‑of‑market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and, most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

The target information listed below is based on the Metropolitan Statistical Area Market Range for where the position is located and level of the position.

Job Range Target:

Minimum:

$109,086.45 USD

50th Percentile:

$142,750.00 USD

Incentive Pay Plans:

This job is not incentive eligible.

Location:

Hoover, Alabama

Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Job applications at Regions are accepted electronically through our career site for a minimum of five business days from the date of posting. Job postings for higher‑volume positions may remain active for longer than the minimum period due to business need and may be closed at any time thereafter at the discretion of the company.