Senior Cloud Security & IaC Engineer (DevSecOps)

Kelly Services; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Schedule

6‑Month Contract

W2 Only

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

PTO

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners in Des Moines, IA is seeking a Technology and Data Engineer 5 to improve cloud infrastructure security within hybrid delivery. You will embed automated controls into DevSecOps workflows, extend IaC security with Rego/OPA, and collaborate across engineering and platform teams to strengthen governance and secure deployments.

The role focuses on policy as code, CI/CD integration, and providing remediation guidance, with a 6-month contract and W2 eligibility.

Qualifications

• 7+ years engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work, training, military, or education.
• 8+ years in AppSec, Cloud Security, or DevSecOps with hands-on Terraform and Kubernetes security experience.
• Practical experience operating Wiz (or similar) for IaC in CI/CD environments.
• Policy as Code skills using OPA/Rego or equivalent rule tuning experience.
• Strong CI/CD knowledge and Git workflow experience.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to support development teams and drive remediation efforts.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune custom IaC rules in Rego/OPA to extend security coverage beyond built-in capabilities.
• Build automated regression tests using Terraform plans, Kubernetes manifests, and sample repositories.
• Perform pipeline health checks and investigate failed security scans.
• Monitor platform availability and scanning effectiveness to minimize engineering disruption.
• Validate finding severity and remove duplicate or inaccurate results.
• Route security issues to the appropriate service and application owners.
• Tune policy‑as‑code controls in alignment with enterprise standards and governance requirements.
• Implement staged enforcement models using report, warning, and blocking controls.
• Integrate Wiz CLI into CI/CD workflows and configure security gates.
• Publish security artifacts for traceability and compliance reporting.
• Deploy and maintain Wiz DevOps extensions and scanning integrations.
• Support GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins security workflows.

Skills

AppSec / Cloud Security / DevSecOps

CI/CD knowledge

Git workflows

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Wiz

OPA / Rego

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners in Des Moines, IA is seeking a Technology and Data Engineer 5 to improve cloud infrastructure security within hybrid delivery. You will embed automated controls into DevSecOps workflows, extend IaC security with Rego/OPA, and collaborate across engineering and platform teams to strengthen governance and secure deployments.

The role focuses on policy as code, CI/CD integration, and providing remediation guidance, with a 6-month contract and W2 eligibility.