DevSecOps Engineer

Kavaliro; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Annual bonus

Employer matched retirement plan

Healthcare benefits (medical)

Job summary

Kavaliro in Salt Lake City is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer for a direct hire role on the Platform Infrastructure team. This role focuses on keeping production and development environments secure and available, leveraging advanced cloud capabilities for platform strategy.

The successful candidate will collaborate across teams to implement secure, automated cloud infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on reliability and security practices in a fintech context.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of security experience with SAST/DAST tools, AWS, and Terraform.
• 6+ years of DevOps or SRE with 4+ years AWS experience; CI/CD pipelines.
• 6+ years of CI/CD pipeline development in GitLab, GitHub, or similar frameworks.
• 3+ years of AWS security best practices including remediating SecurityHub findings.
• Microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) in production.
• Strong Linux OS-level, CLI, scripting, and configuration management.
• Databases: MongoDB, Postgres, DynamoDB.
• Python, Ruby or Java coding experience.
• Terraform or CloudFormation for cloud provisioning.
• Microservice-based architecture design.
• Automated infrastructure design and implementation.
• Networking expertise.
• Distributed systems troubleshooting.
• FIX protocol session management.

Responsibilities

• Build highly available solutions across the SDLC stack with a focus on a fintech site.
• Coordinate Platform Infrastructure with Information Security to remediate issues.
• Contribute to security best practices and shift-left security culture.
• Develop and maintain MacOS/Linux tooling to improve developer productivity.
• Maintain site reliability with scalable, resilient systems.
• Develop tooling to secure and automate cloud infrastructure delivery workflows.
• Design and operate a Kubernetes environment for container orchestration.

Skills

SAST/DAST

AWS

Terraform

DevOps

CI/CD

SecurityHub

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Python

Ruby

Java

CloudFormation

Microservices

Networking

FIX protocol

Distributed systems

Performance tuning

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

Job description

Team: Platform Infrastructure team

Pay: $150,000 - $170,000 annually

Location: Salt Lake City (hybrid –4 days onsite in and Fridays remote)

Client offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).

Position Summary

Our client is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer for a direct hire opportunity. This team plays a critical role in keeping the production and development environments running smoothly and securely. This role will utilize advanced cloud capabilities to facilitate Platform Infrastructure strategy of market agility and lean operating principles with a strict focus on quality to meet the ever-growing demands of clients. The ideal candidate is highly collaborative, creative, intellectually curious and passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities. As a Platform Engineer, this individual will be wearing multiple hats in a highly visible role interacting with all aspects of the business.

Responsibilities

• Build highly available solutions across the entire SDLC stack with a primary focus on an internet facing fintech site.
• Coordinate the relationship between the Platform Infrastructure team and the Information Security Team in remediating security issues related to platforms, CI/CD pipelines, or development tools.
• Contribute to security best practices for shifting security left and establishing a strong security culture within the DevOps and Platform Infrastructure team.
• Develop and maintain tools to support the development environment on MacOS and Linux tool environment with focus on improving developer productivity.
• Maintain site reliability with a focus on building highly scalable systems integrating resiliency and high availability at all levels.
• Develop software and tooling to secure and automate cloud infrastructure building software delivery capabilities with fully automatic workflows.
• Design and operate a Kubernetes environment for container management and orchestration.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience of security experience with SAST/DAST tools plus AWS and Terraform
• 6+ years of DevOps or SRE experience with 4+ years of AWS experience
• 6+ years of CI/CD pipeline development in GitLab, GitHub, or similar frameworks
• 3+ years of experience with security best practices in AWS, including remediating SecurityHub findings
• Microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) experience in a production environment is strongly desired
• Strong Linux OS-level, command-line, scripting knowledge and configuration management principles
• Working knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, and DynamoDB
• Coding beyond simple scripting with strong opinions on maintainable and reusable code in Python, Ruby or Java is desired
• Experience with computer provisioning on a Cloud based platform using Terraform or Cloud formation
• Experience building a Microservice based architecture
• Able to design and implement complex, but easily managed, automated infrastructure
• A desire to share, teach and learn as part of a team
• Expert level knowledge of networking
• Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and hands-on troubleshooting
• Experience with debugging issues with the FIX protocol to include maintaining and establishing fix sessions and or session management + order routing
• Experience in system tuning and performance testing