DevSecOps Engineer

Electric Power Engineers; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Health benefits

PTO & Holidays

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401K match

Job summary

Electric Power Engineers seeks an experienced DevSecOps Engineer to fortify security for cloud platforms, pipelines, and production environments. The role blends AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and automation with a security-first mindset across the software lifecycle.

The successful candidate will partner with software, SRE, platform, security, and product teams to implement secure-by-default patterns, improve risk visibility, and deliver measurable security controls at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevSecOps, cloud security, DevOps, platform engineering, or a related discipline.
• Hands-on experience securing AWS services and architectures (IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, EKS, Lambda, etc.).
• Proficiency with Terraform, secure modules, and policy enforcement.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes/EKS security (RBAC, pod security, admission controls).
• Programming/scripting for security automation (Python, Bash, etc.).
• Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD).
• Familiarity with SAST/SCA, container scanning, IaC scanning, SBOM, and CSPM/SIEM tooling.
• Excellent communication and ability to explain risk and controls to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across AWS environments (IAM, VPC, encryption, logging, governance).
• Build secure Terraform modules and policies enforcing least privilege and configuration standards.
• Integrate security checks into CI/CD pipelines and deployment gates.
• Harden EKS/Kubernetes workloads, implement network policies and secrets management.
• Develop and enforce least-privilege IAM patterns and automated remediation.
• Lead vulnerability management and automate evidence collection for audits.
• Develop security automations in Python/Bash to reduce repetitive toil.
• Enhance security monitoring with CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and SIEM integrations.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD Security

Python

Security Engineering

Incident Response

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Argo CD

CloudTrail

GuardDuty

AWS KMS

Job description

Overview

We are designing the grid of the future!

We are seeking an experienced DevSecOps Engineer to strengthen the security of our cloud platforms, software delivery pipelines, and production environments. The ideal candidate will combine deep AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and automation expertise with a strong security engineering mindset. This role will embed security throughout the software and infrastructure lifecycle, automate security controls, reduce cloud and application risk, and help engineering teams ship securely without creating unnecessary delivery friction.

The DevSecOps Engineer will partner closely with software engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, platform, security, compliance, and product teams to establish secure-by-default patterns, improve visibility into risk, and ensure that security controls are measurable, scalable, and operationally sustainable.

Responsibilities

Howyou can make an impact:

• Cloud Security Engineering: Design, implement, and maintain security controls across AWS environments, including IAM, VPC networking, encryption, secrets management, logging, account governance, and service configuration.


• Infrastructure as Code Security: Build and maintain secure Terraform modules and policies that enforce approved infrastructure patterns, least privilege, encryption, logging, tagging, network controls, and configuration standards.


• Secure CI/CD: Integrate security checks into CI/CD pipelines, including static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets detection, infrastructure-as-code scanning, policy validation, and deployment gates.


• Kubernetes & Container Security: Harden EKS and Kubernetes environments through secure workload configuration, RBAC, admission controls, image security, runtime protections, network policies, secrets management, and cluster lifecycle best practices.


• Identity & Access Management: Develop and enforce least-privilege IAM patterns, role-based access controls, service identities, access review processes, and automated remediation for excessive or unused permissions.


• Vulnerability Management: Establish processes and automation for identifying, prioritizing, tracking, and remediating vulnerabilities across cloud infrastructure, containers, dependencies, operating systems, and application platforms.


• Security Automation: Build Python, Bash, or other automation to detect misconfigurations, validate controls, collect evidence, remediate security findings, and reduce repetitive security operations work.


• Cloud Detection & Monitoring: Implement and improve security monitoring, logging, alerting, and detection capabilities using AWS-native and third-party tooling, including CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudWatch, SIEM platforms, or similar technologies.


• Software Supply Chain Security: Improve software supply chain integrity through dependency controls, artifact signing, provenance, trusted build pipelines, image registries, SBOM practices, and secure release processes.


• Secrets & Key Management: Establish secure patterns for credentials, API keys, certificates, encryption keys, and secrets using services such as AWS KMS, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, and related tooling.


• Security Incident Response: Support investigation and response for cloud and application security incidents, including containment, root-cause analysis, evidence collection, remediation, and post-incident corrective actions.


• Compliance & Control Automation: Translate security and compliance requirements into technical controls and automated evidence collection for frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or related standards.


• Security Architecture & Reviews: Perform security reviews for infrastructure changes, new services, deployment patterns, and application architectures; identify risk and recommend practical mitigations.


• Developer Enablement: Create reusable security patterns, documentation, guardrails, and tooling that make the secure implementation the easiest implementation for engineering teams.


• Continuous Improvement: Track security posture, recurring findings, control effectiveness, and operational trends to identify opportunities for better automation, prevention, and risk reduction

Qualifications

Bring your passion, here's what’s needed:

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in DevSecOps, cloud security, DevOps, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related discipline, including significant responsibility for production cloud environments.


• AWS: Strong hands-on experience securing AWS services and architectures, including IAM, Organizations, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, Route 53, CloudTrail, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and related services.


• Terraform: Advanced proficiency with Terraform, including secure reusable modules, state management, policy enforcement, code review, drift management, and infrastructure lifecycle controls.


• Kubernetes: Strong understanding of Kubernetes and EKS security, including RBAC, pod security, admission controls, secrets, network policies, workload identity, image security, and cluster hardening.


• Security Engineering: Strong knowledge of cloud security principles, least privilege, defense in depth, encryption, network segmentation, secrets management, vulnerability management, threat modeling, and secure configuration.


• Programming & Automation: Proficiency in Python, Bash, Go, or another general-purpose language used to build security automation and operational tooling.


• CI/CD Security: Experience integrating security controls into delivery pipelines using platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD, or similar tooling.


• Security Tooling: Experience with tools for SAST, SCA, container scanning, IaC scanning, secrets detection, CSPM, SIEM, or cloud-native security monitoring.


• Linux & Containers: Strong Linux, Docker, and container fundamentals with the ability to troubleshoot security and configuration issues across hosts and workloads.


• Incident Response: Experience investigating security events or production incidents and contributing to containment, root-cause analysis, remediation, and follow-up actions.


• Compliance: Working knowledge of security control frameworks and audit expectations, including evidence collection, access reviews, logging, change controls, and technical control validation.


• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain security risk and recommended controls to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS security-focused certifications such as AWS Certified Security - Specialty, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional.


• Experience with policy-as-code tools such as Open Policy Agent (OPA), Conftest, Sentinel, Kyverno, or Gatekeeper.


• Experience with CSPM/CNAPP platforms, vulnerability scanners, SIEM platforms, or cloud security posture management tooling.


• Familiarity with supply chain security technologies and standards such as SBOMs, SLSA, artifact signing, provenance, and Sigstore/cosign.


• Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as Argo CD or Flux.


• Knowledge of security frameworks and standards such as CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or PCI DSS.

Be a part of an innovative team shaping the grid of the future through advanced energy intelligence. For more than half a century, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe, providing consulting expertise and energy intelligence software solutions for complex engineering and grid modeling challenges. As leaders in the renewables space, we are focused on building a modern, secure, and resilient grid. Join us in making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live. Together we can transform the future of energy.

How we support you:

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision with 100% premium coverage foryou


• Generous PTO and paid holidays


• MyShare Employee Ownership Program


• Work with industry leaders


• 401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)

Location: This position will be lRemote.

Travel: Occasional travel may be needed (10% or less)

EPE is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer. The EEO is the Law poster, and its supplement are available using the following links:EEOC is the Law Poster

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