Principal DevSecOps & Platform Engineer – Hybrid

Apex Systems; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to lead platform engineering initiatives for a major financial services client. You will drive CI/CD automation, OpenShift deployment patterns, and release governance, turning reference architectures into reusable assets and scalable templates.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software engineering, deep Python, cloud-native architectures, and hands-on leadership in DevSecOps, OpenShift, GitHub Actions, and enterprise security controls.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python and demonstrated ability to lead complex engineering initiatives.
• 10+ years of building web applications and APIs using Django, FastAPI, Flask.
• 8+ years designing and implementing CI/CD automation and DevOps practices, including GitHub Actions and reusable workflow development.
• Hands-on experience integrating security and quality scanning into CI/CD pipelines with enforceable policy gates.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud-native platforms and container orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes) including deployment automation.
• Experience building or operating deployment automation to OpenShift using Harness CD (or equivalent).
• 5+ years of DevSecOps or application security engineering experience, including compliance automation and vulnerability management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain reference implementations for APIs, Web Applications, Data Pipelines, CMS Platforms, and Enterprise Integration Patterns.
• Create reusable engineering assets including starter repositories, workflow templates, deployment blueprints, and shared libraries.
• Develop architectural decision records (ADRs), standards, and engineering guidance.
• Engineer reusable GitHub Actions workflows and automation libraries.
• Build release-ready delivery patterns aligned with enterprise controls.
• Create onboarding frameworks to accelerate adoption of release management initiatives.
• Design automated release governance and compliance controls.
• Improve release traceability, packaging, and deployment workflows.
• Implement security scanning automation including SonarQube, Checkmarx, Black Duck, GitHub Secret Scanning, and DAST Platforms.
• Design policy-based quality and security gates.
• Develop supply chain security controls.
• Automate vulnerability management and remediation workflows.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps delivery models.
• Design and maintain Harness CD deployment modules.
• Implement deployment automation for OpenShift environments.
• Support progressive deployments, rollbacks, promotion workflows, and deployment governance.
• Partner with Platform Engineering and Security teams on resiliency and reliability requirements.
• Mentor Lead and Senior Engineers.
• Lead architecture reviews and design sessions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform improvements.
• Drive enterprise engineering standardization efforts.
• Participate in architecture boards and enterprise working groups.

Skills

Python

DevSecOps leadership

Cloud-native platforms

CI/CD automation

OpenShift/Kubernetes

Tools

GitHub Actions

OpenShift Harness CD

Terraform

Ansible

ArgoCD

SonarQube

Checkmarx

Black Duck

DAST

Job description

Everforth Apex is seeking a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to lead platform engineering initiatives for a major financial services client. You will drive CI/CD automation, OpenShift deployment patterns, and release governance, turning reference architectures into reusable assets and scalable templates.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in software engineering, deep Python, cloud-native architectures, and hands-on leadership in DevSecOps, OpenShift, GitHub Actions, and enterprise security controls.