DevSecOps Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $77/hr

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote contract

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer for a remote contract in the United States. The role focuses on managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, implementing secure CI/CD pipelines, and partnering with InfoSec to deploy SAST/DAST/CSPM tools. Strong scripting in Python or Node.js and experience with monitoring are essential.

The candidate will work across HIPAA-regulated production environments, leverage AI-assisted tooling, and participate in on-call rotations, with no sponsorship provided.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS experience across VPC, EC2, ECS, IAM, S3, and SQS.
• Terraform expertise and IaC practices.
• Python or Node.js scripting proficiency.
• Understanding of VPC design and network security.
• Exposure to SAST, DAST, or CSPM tooling and to logging and monitoring systems.
• Applicants must be located in the United States with eligible work authorization (no sponsorship).

Responsibilities

• Maintain AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform with modular, reusable patterns across VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, IAM, S3, and SQS in HIPAA-regulated production.
• Partner with InfoSec to run and tune security scanning tools such as Semgrep, Checkov, and Lacework, integrating them into delivery pipelines.
• Build automation in Python or Node.js to reduce manual toil and eliminate repetitive operational tasks.
• Implement self-scaling and self-healing configurations, and strengthen CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor infrastructure with Prometheus, Grafana, and the LGTM stack; participate in on-call rotations and blameless post-mortems.
• Leverage AI-augmented engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) to author and review infrastructure.

Skills

AWS experience

Python scripting

Node.js scripting

VPC design & security

CI/CD familiarity

On-call / incident response

Tools

Terraform

Semgrep

Checkov

Lacework

Prometheus

Grafana

GitHub Copilot

Claude

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey . Position: DevSecOps Engineer Type: Contract Compensation: $70–$77/hour Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Maintain AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform with modular, reusable patterns across VPC , EC2 , ECS , EKS , IAM , S3 , and SQS in HIPAA -regulated production.
• Partner with InfoSec to run and tune security scanning tools such as Semgrep , Checkov , and Lacework , integrating them into delivery pipelines.
• Build automation in Python or Node.js to reduce manual toil and eliminate repetitive operational tasks.
• Implement self-scaling and self-healing configurations, and strengthen CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor infrastructure with Prometheus , Grafana , and the LGTM stack; participate in on-call rotations and blameless post-mortems.
• Leverage AI-augmented engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot , Claude ) to author and review infrastructure.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Hands-on AWS experience across VPC , EC2 , ECS , IAM , S3 , and SQS .
• Working knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Proficiency scripting in Python or Node.js .
• Solid understanding of VPC design and network security.
• Exposure to SAST , DAST , or CSPM tooling and to logging and monitoring systems.
• Applicants must be located in the United States with eligible work authorization (no sponsorship).

Preferred

• HIPAA , SOC2 , or PCI-DSS compliance experience.
• Kubernetes/EKS operation experience.
• GitOps awareness ( ArgoCD or Flux ).
• AWS certifications .
• CI/CD pipeline experience ( GitHub Actions , Jenkins ).

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