Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Virtuous Management; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonusly

401(k) with company match

Unlimited PTO

Healthcare benefits

Company outings

Job summary

Virtuous is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to strengthen security across products, cloud infrastructure, and software delivery. You will partner with Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, and Security to embed security by default, automate defense, and reduce security debt.

The role emphasizes solving security problems through code, automation, and engineering, rather than manual gatekeeping, with a focus on scalable, high-impact solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, securing, and modernizing Azure environments in SaaS settings.
• Proven ability to integrate security into SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on with DevSecOps capabilities (SAST/DAST, secrets management, software supply-chain security).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure Azure cloud architectures, networking, governance, and infrastructure.
• Strengthen cloud security posture with RBAC/PIM, Azure Policy, and automated guardrails.
• Improve security visibility via logging, SIEM integrations, and monitoring.
• Embed security into engineering workflows and ensure secure-by-default patterns.

Skills

Security Engineering

Cloud Security

DevSecOps

Threat Modeling

Automation

Cross-functional Collaboration

Tools

GitHub

GitHub Actions

GitHub Advanced Security

Kubernetes

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

SIEM

Observability tooling

Job description

About Us

Virtuous is on a mission to inspire global generosity by helping nonprofits build better relationships with their donors. We offer a modern software platform that provides mid-sized charities with elegant tools for fundraising, marketing, volunteerism, and online giving.

Our talented team is driven to disrupt the status quo in the nonprofit sector. We are hungry, humble, and committed to delivering best-in-class software solutions, customer success interactions, and sales experiences to the world’s leading nonprofits

We also recognize the importance of giving back and making a difference in the communities where we live and work. That's why we practice radical generosity by volunteering at nonprofits or going the extra mile for our team and the customers we serve. We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We believe that life is too short not to love what you do.

The ideal candidate for Virtuous embodies our values by:

• Asking questions with a spirit of curiosity
• Giving feedback freely with candor & grace, welcoming it in return
• Displaying a passion for philanthropy and technology
• Serving with joy. Everyone is willing to make the coffee!
• Celebrating the wins & milestones of others
• Assuming good intent & demonstrating trust in others
• Pursuing relationships with people different from themselves & creates space to be human

Find our core values & more here.

Position Summary

Virtuous is hiring a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to strengthen the security posture of our products, cloud infrastructure, and software delivery ecosystem.

Reporting to the Director of IT & Security, you'll partner with Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, and Security teams to build security into the way we design, develop, deploy, and operate software. You'll improve the security of our products and cloud environment by reducing security debt, modernizing security practices, and building secure-by-default solutions through automation and engineering.

This role is embedded within a collaborative DevOps function and is ideal for someone who enjoys solving security problems through code, automation, and engineering rather than manual reviews or gatekeeping. We're looking for an engineer who is naturally curious, challenges conventional approaches, and safely leverages AI-assisted tooling and modern engineering practices to create scalable, high-impact solutions.

Responsibilities

Security Engineering & Cloud Security

• Design, implement, and continuously improve secure Azure cloud architectures, networking, governance, and infrastructure to support scalable, secure-by-default engineering.
• Strengthen cloud security posture through infrastructure hardening, segmentation, secure connectivity patterns, RBAC/PIM, Azure Policy, and automated guardrails.
• Improve security visibility through logging, monitoring, SIEM integrations, detection engineering, and operational security tooling.
• Continuously assess and remediate cloud security risks, inherited infrastructure weaknesses, configuration drift, and operational security gaps.
• Embed security into infrastructure, platforms, and engineering workflows by collaborating with Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams to build secure-by-default solutions.

Application Security & DevSecOps

• Identify and address security risks in application architecture, authentication, APIs, and data flows throughout the product lifecycle.
• Integrate security capabilities into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows, including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management, software supply-chain security, and policy-based controls.
• Lead threat modeling, architecture reviews, and secure design discussions to identify security risks early in the software development lifecycle.
• Build developer-friendly security guardrails, reusable patterns, and automations that improve security without slowing delivery velocity.
• Drive timely remediation of security findings by enabling engineering teams with practical guidance, automation, and secure-by-default patterns.

Security Modernization & Operational Excellence

• Lead efforts to reduce security backlog, cloud governance drift, stale permissions, infrastructure weaknesses, technical debt, and operational security risk.
• Balance risk reduction, engineering impact, and business priorities when determining what to remediate, standardize, automate, or defer.
• Collaborate with Security leadership to improve incident readiness, operational maturity, security visibility, and organizational resilience.
• Help modernize inherited systems while improving container security, Kubernetes security, and secure cloud-native engineering practices.

Automation, AI & Engineering Enablement

• Leverage automation, APIs, scripting, AI-assisted tooling, and emerging technologies to improve security operations, engineering productivity, and organizational effectiveness.
• Continuously challenge traditional approaches by identifying opportunities to automate, simplify, or reimagine security and engineering workflows.
• Build self-service capabilities, reusable tooling, and scalable workflows that improve developer experience while strengthening security outcomes.
• Evaluate and adopt modern engineering practices, AI-assisted workflows, and emerging technologies that improve security outcomes, accelerate remediation, and increase engineering effectiveness.
• Act as a force multiplier across Security, Engineering, and Cloud Operations by creating systems that increase organizational leverage and effectiveness.

What Success Looks Like

• Security controls are embedded into engineering workflows without creating unnecessary friction or slowing delivery velocity.
• Application and cloud security posture improve through strong engineering adoption, operational ownership, and scalable guardrails.
• Security backlog, infrastructure debt, and operational risk are consistently reduced through pragmatic remediation and automation.
• Cloud infrastructure is secure, resilient, observable, and governed through secure-by-default engineering practices.
• Automation, AI-assisted engineering, and intelligent workflows measurably improve team effectiveness, remediation velocity, and operational scalability.
• Engineering, Security, and Cloud teams operate as trusted partners with shared ownership of reliability, security, and business outcomes.

You Must Have

• 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Application Security, Cloud Security, DevSecOps, or related security-focused engineering roles within cloud-native SaaS environments.
• Strong experience designing, securing, and modernizing Azure environments, including Azure networking, governance, RBAC/PIM, Azure Policy, and secure connectivity patterns.
• Experience improving application security through secure SDLC practices, threat modeling, CI/CD security controls, and engineering partnership.
• Hands-on experience implementing DevSecOps capabilities such as SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management, software supply-chain security, and policy automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, container security, IaC, and modern cloud-native platforms.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security (or equivalent), SIEM platforms, observability tooling, and cloud security technologies.
• Strong automation, scripting, troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a focus on scalable solutions and operational improvement.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar) and a demonstrated curiosity for applying automation and emerging technologies to improve security and engineering outcomes.

What We Offer

• Market competitive pay leveraging Carta data
• Employee recognition through Bonusly (birthdays, anniversaries, achievements, etc.)
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching- 50% match up to 6% of compensation after 90 days
• We value our employee’s work-life balance and encourage taking advantage of Unlimited PTO
• Supportive time off including paid volunteer days and company holidays
• Employer-contributed healthcare benefits, encompassing medical, dental, and vision coverage, with plans available for dependents and choices for Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
• 12 weeks primary parent leave, 4 weeks secondary parent leave - full pay (adoption as well)
• We pride ourselves on Community and host exciting company outings and events.