Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Vultr; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & vision coverage

401(k) plan

Professional development reimbursement

Paid time off

Birthday off

Sabbatical program

Remote office setup allowance

Equipment stipend

Internet reimbursement

Gym membership reimbursement

Wellable subscription

Job summary

Vultr is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to design, build, and secure the automated infrastructure that underpins our cloud platform. You will own the security lifecycle of golden images, Kubernetes clusters, and configuration management pipelines, embedding compliance and hardening at build time, not as an afterthought.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Linux security, container hardening, and policy-as-code, with a bias toward durable automation over manual remediation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure security.
• Strong Linux administration skills with deep understanding of CIS benchmarks and hardening practices.
• Experience with configuration management tools in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes security including RBAC, network policies, and workload identity.
• Proficiency building CI/CD pipelines with integrated security scanning (vulnerability, secrets, SBOM, compliance).
• Experience with policy-as-code frameworks.
• Familiarity with golden image pipelines for VMs and containers, and image promotion workflows.
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python) for automation and remediation.
• Experience with observability tooling for infrastructure security telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated golden image creation pipelines for Linux-based VM and container base images, enforcing CIS hardening standards at build time and validating compliance before promotion through configuration management tooling.
• Implement and manage automated Linux patching workflows.
• Build and maintain configuration management pipelines to enforce hardened baselines across Linux workloads, detecting and remediating drift.
• Integrate security scanning (vulnerability, secrets, SBOM, and compliance) into CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement policy-as-code controls to enforce security guardrails preventing non-compliant workloads and misconfigured systems from reaching production.
• Own the golden image factory from upstream source validation through automated CIS benchmark testing and image promotion gates, for VM and container images used in CI/CD.
• Manage secrets lifecycle and distribution ensuring no secrets are baked into images.
• Respond to configuration drift, vulnerability alerts, and patch compliance gaps with root-cause analysis and durable automation fixes.
• Instrument telemetry pipelines to surface image drift, configuration deviation, and unpatched CVEs in near-real time.

Skills

Linux security

Kubernetes security

CI/CD security

Policy as code

Bash

Python

Automation

Observability tooling

Tools

CIS benchmarking

Configuration management

RBAC & network policies

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Who We Are
Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 33 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately‑held cloud infrastructure company.

Vultr Cares

• Excellent Medical Benefits w/ 100% company-paid premiums for employee only plan + 100% company-paid dental & vision premiums
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4% with immediate vesting
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan + take your birthday off
• Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year & 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 first year remote office setup + $400 each following year for new equipment
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company-paid Wellable subscription

Join Vultr

Vultr is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to design, build, and secure the automated infrastructure that underpins our cloud platform. You will own the security lifecycle of golden images, Kubernetes clusters, and configuration management pipelines, embedding compliance and hardening at build time, not as an afterthought. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Linux security, container hardening, and policy-as-code, with a bias toward durable automation over manual remediation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated golden image creation pipelines for Linux-based VM and container base images, enforcing CIS hardening standards at build time and validating compliance before promotion through configuration management tooling
• Implement and manage automated Linux patching workflows
• Build and maintain configuration management pipelines to continuously enforce hardened baselines across Linux workloads, detecting and remediating drift
• Integrate security scanning (vulnerability, secrets, SBOM, and compliance) into CI/CD pipelines
• Implement policy-as-code controls to enforce security guardrails preventing non-compliant workloads and misconfigured systems from reaching production
• Own the golden image factory from upstream source validation through automated CIS benchmark testing and image promotion gates, covering both VM and container images used in CI/CD
• Manage secrets lifecycle and distribution ensuring no secrets are baked into images
• Respond to configuration drift, vulnerability alerts, and patch compliance gaps with root-cause analysis and durable automation fixes rather than one-off manual remediation
• Instrument telemetry pipelines to surface image drift, configuration deviation, and unpatched CVEs in near-real time

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure security
• Strong Linux administration skills with deep understanding of CIS benchmarks and hardening practices
• Experience with configuration management tools in production environments
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes security including RBAC, network policies, and workload identity
• Proficiency building CI/CD pipelines with integrated security scanning (vulnerability, secrets, SBOM, compliance)
• Experience with policy-as-code frameworks
• Familiarity with golden image pipelines for VMs and containers, and image promotion workflows
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python) for automation and remediation
• Experience with observability tooling for infrastructure security telemetry

Compensation

$130,000 - $145,000

This salary can vary based on location, years of experience, background and skill set.

[We are currently accepting applications from candidates residing in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin.]

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