Security-Driven Cloud & DevSecOps Engineer

Nominal; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% health insurance coverage

Unlimited PTO and sick leave

Free lunch, snacks, and coffee

Professional Development Stipend

In‑office hardware lab with project $‑

Annual company retreat

Parental leave (12 weeks)

Fertility and family planning ($15,000

Wellness stipend ($100/month)

Job summary

Nominal seeks a Cloud, Deployments & DevSecOps Engineer to secure the platform that feeds defense and hardware teams. You will secure cloud deployments across AWS, GovCloud, and on‑prem environments, build guardrails, and automate security signals integrated with engineering workflows.

You will shape security controls, implement device identity and network protections, and drive continuous compliance through IaC and incident response practices in a fast‑moving hardware software environment.

Qualifications

• Deep AWS security experience with hands-on cloud engineering.
• Strong Kubernetes experience, including securing clusters and workloads.
• Experience implementing cloud identity, access and network security controls.
• Experience building or operating cloud logging, monitoring and threat detection.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and security automation.
• Experience working with engineering teams to implement and maintain production security controls.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security controls across AWS, AWS GovCloud, customer-hosted clouds and on-premises deployments.
• Develop secure cloud architectures and define service boundaries.
• Harden Kubernetes and EKS environments, including workload identity and network policies.
• Build centralized logging, monitoring, dashboards and detection capabilities.
• Develop cloud detection and response workflows and support incident response.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code guardrails and policy automation.
• Improve deployment pipeline security through artifact signing and verification.
• Develop container security standards including base images and compliance.
• Collaborate with engineering to integrate security telemetry from customer environments.
• Support FedRAMP and other federal deployment requirements with controls and evidence.

Skills

AWS security

Kubernetes security

Cloud security controls

Logging & monitoring

Infrastructure as code

Security automation

DevSecOps collaboration

Tools

CKS certification

Job description

Nominal seeks a Cloud, Deployments & DevSecOps Engineer to secure the platform that feeds defense and hardware teams. You will secure cloud deployments across AWS, GovCloud, and on‑prem environments, build guardrails, and automate security signals integrated with engineering workflows.

You will shape security controls, implement device identity and network protections, and drive continuous compliance through IaC and incident response practices in a fast‑moving hardware software environment.