Senior AWS DevSecOps Engineer (Cloud Security & Automation)

acuCyber LLC; North Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

acuCyber LLC seeks an AWS DevSecOps Engineer to support NIWC Atlantic Expeditionary Enterprise Systems and Services (E2S2) division. This role blends cloud security architecture, DevSecOps automation, and advanced firewall/network security engineering.

You will collaborate with software engineers to design secure systems, automate operations, and ensure reliability, scalability, and security of AWS environments. An automation-first mindset is critical.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevSecOps or cloud security engineering.
• Experience integrating SAST/DAST/SCA into CI/CD.
• Strong experience with IaC and cloud security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain DevSecOps pipelines with CI/CD, monitoring, and automated security testing.
• Embed SAST, DAST, SCA, and compliance checks into CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CodePipeline).
• Automate security workflows with Python, Bash, or Go.
• Create automated incident response playbooks and threat detection routines.
• Manage CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git, Jira, Artifactory, SonarQube).
• Design secure AWS architectures using Terraform/CloudFormation.
• Implement policy-as-code to prevent misconfigurations.
• Build container workloads on ECS/EKS with vulnerability management.
• Implement and monitor firewall/network security (WAF, Security Groups, NACLs).
• Maintain NGFWs in AWS (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point).
• Ensure security best practices across IAM, VPN, SSO, and audits.

Skills

AWS Cloud Security

DevSecOps

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Go

Bash

Terraform

CloudFormation

SAST/DAST

Container security

Security monitoring

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

AWS CodePipeline

Jira

Artifactory

SonarQube

AWS WAF

Network Firewall

Palo Alto

Fortinet

Job description

acuCyber LLC seeks an AWS DevSecOps Engineer to support NIWC Atlantic Expeditionary Enterprise Systems and Services (E2S2) division. This role blends cloud security architecture, DevSecOps automation, and advanced firewall/network security engineering.

You will collaborate with software engineers to design secure systems, automate operations, and ensure reliability, scalability, and security of AWS environments. An automation-first mindset is critical.