Remote DevSecOps Engineer: Cloud Security & Automation

Electric Power Engineers; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Electric Power Engineers seeks an experienced DevSecOps Engineer to fortify security for cloud platforms, pipelines, and production environments. The role blends AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and automation with a security-first mindset across the software lifecycle.

The successful candidate will partner with software, SRE, platform, security, and product teams to implement secure-by-default patterns, improve risk visibility, and deliver measurable security controls at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevSecOps, cloud security, DevOps, platform engineering, or a related discipline.
• Hands-on experience securing AWS services and architectures (IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, EKS, Lambda, etc.).
• Proficiency with Terraform, secure modules, and policy enforcement.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes/EKS security (RBAC, pod security, admission controls).
• Programming/scripting for security automation (Python, Bash, etc.).
• Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD).
• Familiarity with SAST/SCA, container scanning, IaC scanning, SBOM, and CSPM/SIEM tooling.
• Excellent communication and ability to explain risk and controls to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across AWS environments (IAM, VPC, encryption, logging, governance).
• Build secure Terraform modules and policies enforcing least privilege and configuration standards.
• Integrate security checks into CI/CD pipelines and deployment gates.
• Harden EKS/Kubernetes workloads, implement network policies and secrets management.
• Develop and enforce least-privilege IAM patterns and automated remediation.
• Lead vulnerability management and automate evidence collection for audits.
• Develop security automations in Python/Bash to reduce repetitive toil.
• Enhance security monitoring with CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and SIEM integrations.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD Security

Python

Security Engineering

Incident Response

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Argo CD

CloudTrail

GuardDuty

AWS KMS

Job description

Electric Power Engineers seeks an experienced DevSecOps Engineer to fortify security for cloud platforms, pipelines, and production environments. The role blends AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and automation with a security-first mindset across the software lifecycle.

The successful candidate will partner with software, SRE, platform, security, and product teams to implement secure-by-default patterns, improve risk visibility, and deliver measurable security controls at scale.