Senior DevSecOps Engineer — 24/7 Cloud Infra & Security

Takt; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) with employer match

Unlimited PTO

AI tools budget for engineers

MacBook Pro + 4K monitors

Job summary

Takt is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to own the infrastructure, security posture, and developer experience for a 24/7 platform used by major brands. You will work closely with the CTO and Engineering Director to secure deployments, automate processes, and drive reliability.

You'll manage cloud-based infrastructure, implement scalable CI/CD, and maintain audit-ready security controls across regions. This role requires ownership and hands-on leadership in Reston, with visa sponsorship not

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience across DevOps, SRE, platform, or security engineering.
• Hands-on Terraform experience in production infrastructure as code.
• Deep experience with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and IAM.
• Proven ability to design/operate multi-region deployments and ensure availability.
• Track record of building CI/CD pipelines at scale, ideally GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with SOC 2, GDPR and audit readiness; Vanta a plus.
• Security mindset: least privilege, secrets hygiene, supply-chain awareness.

Responsibilities

• Own our infrastructure as code: manage and evolve Terraform configurations for app, customer, and DevOps platforms.
• Manage Google Cloud infra including Kubernetes clusters, networking, IAM, and production/pre-production environments.
• Design and operate multi-region deployments for reliability and performance.
• Manage and optimize CI/CD on GitHub Actions for faster, safer releases.
• Own our compliance program in Vanta, maintaining SOC 2 and GDPR requirements.
• Enable engineering with tools for observability, secrets management, and security scanning.
• Lead incident management via incident.io: on-call health, postmortems, and follow-through.

Skills

Terraform

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Security fundamentals

Multi-region deployments

SOC 2 & GDPR

Incident response

Tools

incident.io

Vanta

Job description

Takt is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to own the infrastructure, security posture, and developer experience for a 24/7 platform used by major brands. You will work closely with the CTO and Engineering Director to secure deployments, automate processes, and drive reliability.

You'll manage cloud-based infrastructure, implement scalable CI/CD, and maintain audit-ready security controls across regions. This role requires ownership and hands-on leadership in Reston, with visa sponsorship not