DevSecOps Principal Engineer — Lead Security Automation

Medium; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 153,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Allegiant Air is seeking a DevSecOps Principal Engineer to lead the security tooling, policy enforcement, and automation that protect code, infrastructure, and cloud workloads as they move through CI/CD pipelines into production. This role demands production experience across application security, pipeline engineering, cloud infrastructure, and IaC governance.

You will mentor two engineers, drive the DevSecOps roadmap, integrate security outputs into SIEM/SOAR, and partner with Security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum eight years in information security.
• Authorized to work in the US as defined by law.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the DevSecOps team daily and during PI planning.
• Lead the DevSecOps team in weekly syncs to track progress and unblock blockers.
• Own GitHub Advanced Security administration and developer adoption campaigns.
• Build, maintain, and enforce security scanning stages in GitHub Actions pipelines across the organization.
• Operate and configure Cortex Cloud (CNAPP) for cloud workload protection and posture.

Skills

DevSecOps leadership

Production tooling

CI/CD pipelines

IaC governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

GitHub Actions

Checkov

Terraform

Palo Alto Cortex Cloud

CodeQL

Job description

Allegiant Air is seeking a DevSecOps Principal Engineer to lead the security tooling, policy enforcement, and automation that protect code, infrastructure, and cloud workloads as they move through CI/CD pipelines into production. This role demands production experience across application security, pipeline engineering, cloud infrastructure, and IaC governance.

You will mentor two engineers, drive the DevSecOps roadmap, integrate security outputs into SIEM/SOAR, and partner with Security