Remote DevSecOps Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & Security

Visa Hunt; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary $140k–$160k

Quarterly bonus

Equity ownership

Premium medical/dental/vision

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible PTO

Flexible remote work

Job summary

Sphinx Defense is hiring a DevSecOps Engineer to secure and scale the cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes. You will own security tooling, integrate security into CI/CD, and partner with engineering to keep applications and infrastructure secure, compliant, and resilient.

As an early member of a growing team, you'll influence security architecture, tooling strategy, and development processes while supporting DoD/regulatory environments and a remote-friendly culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevSecOps, cloud security, or SRE.
• Hands-on experience securing AWS and Kubernetes in production.
• Experience integrating security tooling into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Configure, deploy, and maintain security tools across cloud-native environments.
• Integrate security tooling into existing software development and deployment workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to implement security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Manage and optimize security controls within AWS cloud environments and Kubernetes clusters.
• Maintain and improve application, infrastructure, and container security posture.
• Implement automated security scanning, monitoring, alerting, and remediation processes.
• Support compliance, vulnerability management, and incident response efforts.
• Continuously evaluate and introduce new security technologies and practices to strengthen platform security.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud Security

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Okta

GitLab CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitLab

Sumo Logic

Nexus

Okta

NeuVector

Kyverno

Job description

Sphinx Defense is hiring a DevSecOps Engineer to secure and scale the cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes. You will own security tooling, integrate security into CI/CD, and partner with engineering to keep applications and infrastructure secure, compliant, and resilient.

As an early member of a growing team, you'll influence security architecture, tooling strategy, and development processes while supporting DoD/regulatory environments and a remote-friendly culture.