Senior DevOps Security Lead: Cloud, IAM & SOC 2 Champion

Kings III Emergency Communications; Coppell (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401k

Wellness Program

PTO 15 days

Telemedicine

Job summary

Kings III Emergency Communications seeks a proactive leader to own DevOps, security, and cloud infrastructure. You’ll drive CI/CD, release engineering, and observability across multi-region environments, while owning the SOC 2 program and IAM governance.

Strong Linux, Terraform/CloudFormation, and Rust CI/CD expertise are required. You’ll partner across teams to mature our security posture, manage vendor risk, and ensure high availability with a focus on automation, cost optimization, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; AWS or Security credentials a plus.
• 8+ years across DevOps/SRE/platform engineering AND information security, with senior-level AWS depth.
• Direct ownership of a SOC 2 (or ISO 27001) program, including auditor relationship and evidence.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code (Terraform / CloudFormation), CI/CD, and containerization experience.
• Strong IAM and cloud-security depth - identity federation, access governance, and hardening.
• Hands-on observability and production incident response.
• Deep, hands-on Linux expertise - operating, debugging, and hardening Linux hosts from the command line.
• Working Rust proficiency - able to build, package, deploy, and troubleshoot the Rust backend / VTS and to own its CI/CD and release pipelines.
• Pragmatic for a small, fast-moving company - risk-based, automation-first, low ego; communicates bottom-line-first.

Responsibilities

• Own CI/CD pipelines and release engineering across all environments (Dev/QA/Staging/Production/Demo/Multi-Region).
• Own cloud infrastructure-as-code (reliability, scaling, and cost optimization on AWS).
• Own the observability/monitoring stack, on-call alerting, and incident response.
• Implement and operate change management for production deployments.
• Own the information security program, policies, and the SOC 2 control set and evidence.
• Govern identity and access management (IAM) - provisioning standards, least privilege, and MFA enforcement.
• Run quarterly access reviews/recertification across all in-scope systems.
• Own vendor/third-party security risk assessment and review.
• Manage the SOC 2 auditor relationship and readiness milestones.
• Manage AWS Cognito identity integration, backups, and disaster-recovery procedures.
• Monitor platform uptime percentage (target 99.9%).
• Own deployment frequency and change-failure rate; mean time to recovery (MTTR).
• Manage infrastructure cost as a percentage of ARR.
• SOC 2 Type 1 readiness milestones delivered on schedule.
• Quarterly access reviews completed on time, exceptions remediated.
• Mean time to revoke access on offboarding (target = 1 business day).
• Security incident count and time-to-contain.

Skills

AWS depth

CI/CD

Containerization

IAM

Observability

Linux

Rust

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS Cognito

Job description

Kings III Emergency Communications seeks a proactive leader to own DevOps, security, and cloud infrastructure. You’ll drive CI/CD, release engineering, and observability across multi-region environments, while owning the SOC 2 program and IAM governance.

Strong Linux, Terraform/CloudFormation, and Rust CI/CD expertise are required. You’ll partner across teams to mature our security posture, manage vendor risk, and ensure high availability with a focus on automation, cost optimization, and