DevSecOps Architect / Technical Lead

Justjoin; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance and sports

Annual bonus opportunity up to 1,000–2

Training portal access

Referral program

Support for certifications

Job summary

Andersen is seeking a DevSecOps Architect / Technical Lead to drive a large-scale banking platform modernization with emphasis on security, scalability, and reliability.

You will translate the master plan into practical roadmaps, define reusable CI/CD standards, and lead hands-on implementation across Azure, AKS, and Terraform while mentoring delivery teams and ensuring secure, auditable release processes. Remote or hybrid work options available.

Qualifications

• Experience in DevSecOps, cloud security or platform security for 5+ years.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Practical experience with Azure DevOps or comparable enterprise CI/CD platforms.
• Experience designing and implementing secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience integrating security scanners and quality gates into pipelines.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes and container security, preferably AKS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Knowledge of identity, secrets and certificate management.
• Understanding of SAST, SCA, DAST, secret scanning, IaC scanning and container scanning.
• Ability to combine solution design and technical leadership with hands-on implementation.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Level of English - from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Responsibilities

• Translating the DevSecOps master plan into a practical implementation roadmap.
• Defining reusable CI/CD, security and release-management standards.
• Supporting the transition from Bitbucket/Jenkins to Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines.
• Implementing security scanning and release gates in CI/CD pipelines.
• Configuring security controls for AKS, container images, identities and secrets.
• Establishing artifact signing, SBOM generation and secure promotion processes.
• Integrating platform security events with the bank's monitoring and SIEM solutions.
• Defining vulnerability-management, audit-evidence and incident-response processes.
• Providing technical leadership, recommendations and knowledge transfer to delivery teams.
• Participating directly in configuration, integration and troubleshooting activities.

Skills

DevSecOps

Azure

CI/CD

Security architecture

Kubernetes

Terraform

SBOM

Vuln mgmt

English comms

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Defender for Containers

Job description

Andersen is hiring a DevSecOps Architect / Technical Lead for a project modernizing digital banking architecture and enhancing security, scalability, and platform reliability.

The customer is a financial services organization providing banking products and digital solutions for individual and business clients. The company operates through an established service network and online platforms and is part of a larger international financial group, supporting ongoing development of its services for a broad client base. The project is focused on defining a structured architecture roadmap for a large-scale digital banking transformation program. It includes target-state architecture, platform modernization, API governance, security, data and analytics, system decoupling, and phased migration of business capabilities to reduce system dependencies and accelerate future digital development.

Responsibilities

• Translating the DevSecOps master plan into a practical implementation roadmap.
• Defining reusable CI/CD, security and release-management standards.
• Supporting the transition from Bitbucket/Jenkins to Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines.
• Implementing security scanning and release gates in CI/CD pipelines.
• Configuring security controls for AKS, container images, identities and secrets.
• Establishing artifact signing, SBOM generation and secure promotion processes.
• Integrating platform security events with the bank's monitoring and SIEM solutions.
• Defining vulnerability-management, audit-evidence and incident-response processes.
• Providing technical leadership, recommendations and knowledge transfer to delivery teams.
• Participating directly in configuration, integration and troubleshooting activities.

Requirements

• Experience in DevSecOps, cloud security or platform security for 5+ years.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Practical experience with Azure DevOps or comparable enterprise CI/CD platforms.
• Experience designing and implementing secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience integrating security scanners and quality gates into pipelines.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes and container security, preferably AKS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Knowledge of identity, secrets and certificate management.
• Understanding of SAST, SCA, DAST, secret scanning, IaC scanning and container scanning.
• Ability to combine solution design and technical leadership with hands-on implementation.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Level of English - from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in the banking domain.
• Experience with Jenkins, Bitbucket and migration to Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Azure Key Vault, Azure Container Registry and Defender for Containers.
• Familiarity with tools such as SonarQube, Sonatype, Nexus, Gitleaks, Checkov or OWASP ZAP.
• Understanding of SBOM, artifact signing and software supply-chain security.
• Experience with DefectDojo, Microsoft Sentinel or other vulnerability-management and SIEM solutions.
• Experience with Azure Policy, Gatekeeper, OPA or Kubernetes admission controls.
• Experience in banking or another regulated industry.
• Understanding of DORA, audit traceability and segregation-of-duties requirements.

Reasons why this job would be interesting to you

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others.
• Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc.. The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.

Job conditions - you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.

Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth!

The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.

Benefits

• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 EUR per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• Private health insurance and sports compensation, depending on the type of employment.

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